The story
A farmer’s wife gets word from her brother in Labrador that his sons are visiting the United States for the first time, and that she should show them every courtesy in her power, as they have ‘never been out of Labrador.’ With her husband, the aunt meets the train bringing the boys from the cold country. It was snowing when the train pulls in and the farmer and his wife are warmly clad, but to their dismay their nephews alight from the train in shirtsleeves, their coats over their arms, and fanning themselves vigorously. Finally, their troubled relatives force them to put on their coats and muffle up warmly. To please the aunt and the uncle the boys submit, but just the same they make a mysterious trip out of the house each day and come back all smiles. The aunt decides to ferret out the mystery. She follows them to a neighboring lake where the red ball is up, sees them discard their clothes and don bathing suits and then whirl about on the ice. After this they roll in the snow and then do a dive into the icy water. The aunt is well-nigh attacked by nervous prostrations at the sight of this, but the boys do not catch pneumonia or anything else dreadful, as she expected, and all ends well—and cold.
Summary from The Moving Picture World · 1 February 1913
