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Harbor Tales Down North. Duncan Norman
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Norman Duncan
Harbor Tales Down North
With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066132002
Table of Contents
THE LITTLE NIPPER O' HIDE-AN'-SEEK HARBOR
THE LITTLE NIPPER O' HIDE-AN'-SEEK HARBOR
ILLUSTRATIONS
| FACING PAGE | |
| 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