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“Where can I find that story of the ‘Copper Store’?” was asked me one day.

“You can’t get it; it’s out of print.”

“Well, why not reprint it?”

“I’m sure I don’t know.”

Conference with the publishers revealed that they did not know either.

The latest science teaches us that Nature conserves everything; not only matter, but energy. A number of new stories which had been graded as worth telling needed a medium for materialization. Man is nothing if not imitative. There seemed no valid reason why we should not copy man’s great teacher in conservation and, like history, repeat anything that might be of interest or value. Hence, this book, Northern Neighbors, has become the required vehicle to meet the wishes of many friends of Labrador and its fisherfolk.

Not only “The Copper Store,” but “Off the Rocks,” “That Bit o’ Line,” “Little Prince Pomiuk,” “Reported Lost,” “Johnny,” “Peter Wright, Mail-Carrier,” and “Green Pastures” are reprinted from the volume entitled Off the Rocks, first published in 1906.

W. T. G.

July, 1923.