Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North

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Fullerton Leonard Waldo. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North

I. A BOY AND THE SEA

II. SCHOOL—AND AFTER

III. WESTWARD HO! FOR LABRADOR

IV. HAULED BY THE HUSKIES

V. SOME REAL SEA-DOGS

VI. HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMO

VII. LITTLE PRINCE POMIUK

VIII. CAPTURED BY INDIANS

IX. ALONE ON THE ICE

X. A FIGHT WITH THE SEA

XI. THE KIDNAPPERS

XII. WHEN THE BIG FISH "STRIKE IN"

XIII. BIRDS OF MANY A FEATHER

XIV. BEASTS BIG AND LITTLE

XV. THE KEEPER OF THE LIGHT

XVI. THROUGH THE BLIZZARD

XVII. WHY THE DOCTOR WAS LATE

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This Robin Hood kind of life in the open went on till Wilf was fourteen. Then he was sent away to Marlborough College—a boy's school which had 600 pupils. Marlborough is in the Chalk Hills of the Marlborough Downs, seventy-five miles west of London. The building, dating from 1843, is on the site of a castle of Henry I.

The first day Wilf landed there he looked about him and felt pretty forlorn.

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Green worsted tied round your wrist was a sure cure for hemorrhage.

If you had trouble with your eyes, you ought to get somebody to blow sugar into them.

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