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Wilfred T. Grenfell. Northern Neighbours: Stories of the Labrador People
Northern Neighbours: Stories of the Labrador People
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
OFF THE ROCKS
“THAT BIT O’ LINE”
LITTLE PRINCE POMIUK
THE COPPER STORE
ON THE ROCKS
JOHNNY
REPORTED LOST
PETER WRIGHT, MAIL-CARRIER
PADDY
GHOSTS
GREEN PASTURES
TWO NIGHT WATCHES
THE WRECK OF THE MAIL STEAMER
THE FIRST FROST OF WINTER
ABOVE THE BIG FALLS
ST. ANTHONY’S FIRST CHRISTMAS
SOU’WEST BY WEST
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II
DEEDS OF DERRING DO
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Wilfred T. Grenfell
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But just then a wonderful thing happened. The empty cask was coming appreciably nearer to the boat. Were they making way? No, not an inch. They were still astern of our counter, which they had left, it seemed, ages ago. Surely it isn’t a change of wind! Our wind-vane on the masthead hadn’t budged an inch. No, it was just a flaw of wind on the water—a flaw, but oddly enough just in the nick of time! Almost unable to speak for excitement, we saw that our boys in the boat had noticed it. What would we have given at that moment to have been able to lend a hand in the boat! It must be now or never. They saw this also, and with one supreme effort our noble lads had seized the moment, and bent every ounce of strength to the oars.
If cheering could have been heard in the howling wind, we could have cheered ourselves speechless as we saw the bow man drop his oar, lean over, and heave the cask into the boat. In less than half a minute the line was detached, fastened to the line coiled in the stern, and the Firefly’s men were hauling it in, while our boat still had her work cut out to make the ship once more. The wire hawser, carefully paid out, was soon through the Firefly’s hawsepipe and fast around the mainmast itself. In less than a quarter of an hour she was riding behind our ship. True, her keel was only a few feet from the rocks as she rose and fell on the mountainous swell, but the line was trustworthy, and we ourselves were anchored “sure and deep.”
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