Dr. Grenfell's Parish: The Deep Sea Fisherman

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Fleming H. Revell Company, 1905 - 155 pages
Duncan's purpose in writing this biography of Sir Wilfred Grenfell was to promote the man and his work for the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen on the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.
 

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Page 131 - A wet sheet and a flowing sea, And a wind that follows fair. My foot is on my gallant deck, Once more the rover is free ! And the
Page 130 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense - the pulse's maddening play, That thrills the wanderer of that trackless way?
Page 143 - I have had some little experience, and the best advice sounds odd; it is 'keep cool.' But the nearest house being at least ten miles away, it meant almost one's life to have no dry clothing. Fortunately, I had. The driver at once galloped the dogs back to the woods we had left, and I had as hard a mile's running as ever I had, for my clothing was growing to resemble the armor of an ancient knight more and more every yard, and though in my youth I was accustomed to break the ice to bathe if necessary,...
Page 127 - not a hundred haven't ? " " Many more than that." " "Tis hard t' believe, zur," he said.
Page 14 - He come by chance," he added, "like you." "Think they'll be one comin' soon?" the woman asked. I took the little girl's hand. It was dry and hot. She did not smile — nor was she afraid. Her fingers closed upon the hand she held. She was a blueeyed, winsome little maid; but pain had driven all the sweet roguery out of her face. "Does you think she'll die, zur?" asked the woman anxiously. I did not know. "Sure, zur...
Page 56 - Often it does. He is impatient of delay, fretted by inaction ; a gale is the wind for him — a wind to take him swiftly towards the place ahead. Had he been a weakling, he would long ago have died on the coast; had he been a coward, a multitude of terrors would long ago have driven him to a life ashore; had he been anything but a true man and tender, indeed, he would long ago have retreated under the suspicion and laughter of the folk. But he has outsailed the Labrador skippers — outdared them...
Page 49 - We were aboard the mission steamer, bound north under full steam and all sail. He had been in feverish haste to reach the northern harbours, where, as he knew, the sick were watching for his coming. The fair wind, the rush of the little steamer on her way, pleased him. "Oh," said he, somewhat impatiently, "I'm not a martyr." So he found what he sought. After applying certain revolutionary ideas to Sunday-school work in the London slums, in which a horizontal bar and a set of boxinggloves for a time...
Page 142 - One of these involved an operation: that of " opening a knee-joint and removing a loose body," with the result that a fisherman who had long been crippled was made quite well again. Then there came a second call from Conch. Seventeen men had come for the physician, willing to haul the komatik themselves, if no dogs were to be had. To this call the doctor immediately responded; and having treated patients at Conch and by the way, he set out upon the return journey to St. Anthony, fearing that his...

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