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with the date. So, exposure and starvation, onc thing and another, they
knew they were finished. I
So, "tragedy" was synonym to plural deaths, such as caused by sea disaster.
Puzzingly, it was "tragedy" crystallized in such songs which filled a good part of the rare
leisure of (his fisherfolk, during the long winter evenings as well as aCler a full day's work
on the Labrador in the summer. One reads in Greta Hussey's personal memoirs:
When the ship anchored for the night, everyone on board would gather in
the large cabin where we were and many a pleasant hour was spent. We
had much fun playing forfeits. This went for old and young, men and
women, and you never knew what you would be called on to do to redeem
your forfeit. Quite a bit of singing went on. Sometimes, we sang a few
hymns from the old Sankey songbook. Other times, someone would sing
a song.
One thing that we all enjoyed, time after time, was Willie George Bishop,
of Hatchet Cove, Trinity Bay, singing "The Wreck of the Ella M.
Rudolph." This was a song about a local schooner that went ashore at
Catalina wilh the loss of the girl cook and all the crew except one m