ke of the Labrador," Etc.

With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.

Illustrated

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

APPRECIATION BY WILFRED T. GRENFELL, M.D. 5

I. MADMAN'S LUCK 17

II. THE SIREN OF SCALAWAG RUN 59

III. THE ART OF TERRY LUTE 91

IV. THE DOCTOR OF AFTERNOON ARM 115

V. A CROESUS OF GINGERBREAD COVE 141

VI. A MADONNA OF TINKLE TICKLE 165

VII. THE LITTLE NIPPER O' HIDE-AN'-SEEK HARBOR 189

VIII. SMALL SAM SMALL 223

IX. AN IDYL OF RICKITY TICKLE 255

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Norman Duncan _Title_

"Well, I'm off, whatever comes of it" 48

"'You're a coward, God help you,' Skipper Tom groaned" 108

"If he comes by the bight he'll never get here at all" 126

"We found Skipper Sammy squatted on a pan of ice" 250

NORMAN DUNCAN

An Appreciation by

WILFRED T. GRENFELL, M.D.

As our thoughts fly back to the days when the writer of these stories
was a guest aboard our little hospital vessel, we remember realizing
how vast was the gulf which seemed to lie between him and the
circumstances of our sea life in the Northland. Nowhere else in the
world, perhaps, do the cold facts of life call for a more unrelieved
material response. It is said of our people that they are born with a
netting needle in their hand and an ax by the side of their cradle.
Existence is a daily struggle with adamantine facts and conditions;
and quick, practical response, which leaves little encouragement or
opportunity for dreamers, is, often enough, the only dividing line
between life and death. As I write these lines the greatest physical
battle the world has ever s