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Title: Doctor Luke of the Labrador

Author: Norman Duncan

Release Date: November 30, 2006 [EBook #19981]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "I've a bad son, the day, Skipper Tommy," said my
Mother.--Page 23.]

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DOCTOR LUKE OF THE LABRADOR

BY
NORMAN DUNCAN

GROSSET & DUNLAP

Publishers--New York

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Copyright, 1904, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 63 Washington Street
Toronto: 27 Richmond Street, W
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 30 St. Mary Street

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To
My Own Mother
and to
her granddaughter
Elspeth
my niece

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To the Reader

However bleak the Labrador--however naked and desolate that
shore--flowers bloom upon it. However bitter the despoiling sea--however
cold and rude and merciless--the gentler virtues flourish in the hearts
of the folk.... And the glory of the coast--and the glory of the whole
world--is mother-love: which began in the beginning and has continued
unchanged to this present time--the conspicuous beauty of the fabric of
life: the great constant of the problem.

N. D.

College Campus,
Washington, Pennsylvania,
October 15, 1904.

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CONTENTS

I. Our Harbour 13
II. The World from the Watchman 17
III. In the Haven of Her Arms 29
IV. The Shadow 35
V. Mary