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Title: Labrador Days
Tales of the Sea Toilers

Author: Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

Release Date: March 15, 2008 [EBook #24832]

Language: English

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[Illustration: NORTHWARD HO!]

Labrador Days

TALES OF THE SEA TOILERS

By

Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
M.D. (OXON.), C.M.G.

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY WILFRED THOMASON GRENFELL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Contents

THERE'S TROUBLE ON THE SEA 1

NANCY 19

SALLY'S "TURNS" 38

THE DOCTOR'S BIG FEE 61

TWO CAT'S-PAWS 73

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE 92

PORTLAND BILL 113

KAIACHOUOUK 130

TWO CHRISTMASES 148

THE LEADING LIGHT 181

THE RED ISLAND SHOALS 203

Labrador Days

THERE'S TROUBLE ON THE SEA

The ice in the big bay had broken up suddenly that year in the latter
part of March before a tremendous