And I'm thinkin' 'tis the same with them folks about the oranges and apples." "Yes," agreed Doctor Joe, "it's only when things are taken away from us that we really appreciate them.

Jamie, no doubt, appreciates his eyes much more than he would have done had the mist never clouded them." "Aye, 'tis so," said Thomas.
"I dare say," Doctor Joe suggested, "that you've never eaten potatoes or onions ?" "No," said Thomas, "I've heard of un, but I never eats un.

I never had any to eat." "Well," announced Doctor Joe, "I've had several sacks of potatoes and a sack of onions and two barrels of apples shipped to Fort Pelican with a quantity of other goods.

We'll have to go with the big boat for them." The boys and Margaret were quite beside themselves with the wonder of it all, and Thomas was little less excited.
"We'll go for un to-morrow or the next day whatever," said Thomas.
There was one box still unopened, and the three boys were eyeing it expectantly, when Doctor Joe exclaimed: "Here we've left till the last the most important thing of all.

Get an axe, David, and we'll knock the cover off this box." David had the axe in a jiffy, and when Doctor Joe removed the cover the box was found to be filled with books.
"O-h-h!" breathed the boys in unison.
"'Tis fine! Oh, I've been wishin' and wishin' for books t' look at and read!" exclaimed Margaret.
Doctor Joe had taught them all to read and write in the years he had been with them, an accomplishment that not every boy and girl on The Labrador possessed, for there were no schools there.
"There are some books to study and some to read.