Sealing, i.e. the practice of heading north to the ice in the springtime to kill seals: "Greenspond is a pretty place And so is Pinchard's Island Ma will buy me a new fur coat When Da gets home from swilin'." (Similar song verse quoted in Briton Cooper Busch, "The War Against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery")
Sealing, i.e. the practice of heading north to the ice in the springtime to kill seals:
"Greenspond is a pretty place
And so is Pinchard's Island
Ma will buy me a new fur coat
When Da gets home from swilin'."
(Similar song verse quoted in Briton Cooper Busch, "The War Against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery")