Life On The Great Northern Peninsula Crossword

The trap had been set with a twenty-foot cable attached to a big tree that was a foot in diameter in the butt"
"There were big boulders in the brook and swirling water"
"And I must have turned as white as a ghost"
"You could have knocked me over with a feather"
"The traps would be on the move"
"Life then was free and full of fun"
"Sometimes during the bad days, Mother Nature called"
"With all the swirling snow, we barely knew where we were"
"During the hot nights, the stench of sweaty bodies filled your nostrils"
"The large swells caused the mail boat to lurch all over the place, tossing it around like a matchbox"
"Lots of things weren't talked about back then and were usually swept under the rug"
"You could shoot gulls through their rib cages"
"Live and let live"
"And all those long, sharp teeth like a big saw blade were lying there about three feet below the surface"
"We went out in a gale of wind, and there was that much tide, everything was like a fiddle string"
"As the sun began to pack the snow hard"
"The boat would be dancing around like some rock and roll band"
"Well, when we saw the poor condition they were in, we were sorry that we'd asked"
"Everything let loose like a cannon"
"All hell would break lose inside the pen"
"Every hair on my neck stood up straight"
"There had been a lot of cracking and ice noises overnight"