CHAPTER 5 
     
     Marooned 
     
    
   
   
    
     The dory has always been a very useful boat since its 
     
     development in the cod fishery, and has a long history of use 
     
     on Boughton Island. In 1953, the account of a trip to Boughton 
     
     Island written by “The Observer” appeared in two issues of the 
     
     Guardian. Three men used a dory to go to Boughton Island on 
     
     a duck hunting trip. 
     
    

    
     The three, A, B, and C, listed below have since been 
     
     identified: A is Andrew Macdonald, storekeeper in Cardigan, 
     
     B is the author, the Reverend John Paine and C is William 
     
     Christian, farmer and fisherman of Launching, PEI. 
     
    
   
   
    
     MARODNED 0N BOUGHTON ISLAND. 
     
     By Observer. 
     
    
   
   
    
     How do men react to an uncomfortable situation forced 
     
     upon them by November’s surly temper? How do they await 
     
     the ”opening of the eyelids of the mom?” 
     
    

    
     This will be the first of two articles designed to tell how three 
     
     men, whom I will call A, B, and C, reacted to such a situation. 
     
    

    
     It all started when A suggested to 
     
     B that a day’s hunting on Boughton 
     
     Island would be just about ideal and 
     
     B, always easily persuaded in such 
     
     matters, agreed with him. There 
     
     was one little flaw in the idealistic 
     
     prospect—they would have to cover 
     
     the mile-wide strait separating the 
     
     Island from Launching in a dory 
     
     and that, of course, meant rowing. 
     
     Rowing, in turn, would mean 
     
     muscular exertion which neither A 
     
     nor B anticipated with rapture. 
     
    

    
     However, it was a small matter 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Andrew Mat‘donald, Kcm’sfiztlu’r, 
     
     plmmgmphud ulmiu 1945 
     
    
   
   
    
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