That's His big surprise.
"He may have put us into the world to do some great thing, and to become a great and useful man, or we may be intended just to help other people to be noble and honest and true, by doing our duty always, and setting an example of honesty and nobility." "Do you think you or Jimmy or I will ever be great men ?" Bobby asked in some awe.
"Partner is a great man _now_" declared Jimmy.

"He knows most everything!" "No, not everything," laughed Skipper Ed.

"Not everything, Partner.
But," and he spoke gravely again, "I've always tried to do my duty as God has pointed it out to me.

Perhaps the Great Thing that I was intended to do was to teach you two chaps what I could, and perhaps your Great Thing is to teach others, and perhaps working all together in this way we may guide someone else to a great destiny.
"We are just hunters and fishermen.

Aside from our own two families, we don't see many people, except the missionary down at Nain, and the Eskimos at the settlement there, and now and again in summer the fishermen on passing schooners.