254 OVER ON THE ISLAND

Those who can navigate it safely should be presented with a “Royal Order of the Pavement” medal in commemoration of their ability.

The village has a still more delightful interest—an Old Curiosity Shop, which is all that an Old Curiosity Shop implies except in appearance. It is, in outline, a most modern up-to-date drug store—but towards the back it changes its character and becomes a museum. There, there is one of the most interesting collections of relics found anywhere on the Island. Some are not old, just merely interesting. Others are interesting and old. Some are quite valuable. This is what we saw and, as nearly as I can remember, what we were told about them.

There is the left forearm of a whale which was dug up with mussel mud a short distance from the village. On each side of it hangs an old-fashioned tin lantern with space inside for a candle. The lanterns are not so very old in years, though they are certainly out-of- date. There are two sets of old-fashioned hanging scales, similar to a set in the Kensington Museum in London. There is a shillelah, a miner’s lamp, a bomb, a fine collection of old coins, a reaping knife, part of a caribou’s antler. There is a tree branch which has grown through a tumbler.

And talk about luck! There are three horseshoes there—no ordinary ones, either. It seems to me that if a man really wanted a horse to stay in one particular spot for ever, all he would have to do would be to borrow one of these horseshoes, and nail it solidly t0 the animal’s foot. Horseshoes may be lucky, but I scarcely imagine that any horse would consider himself lucky if presented with one of these.

There are chain handcuffs—which are, oh, so very