ILLUSTRATIONS

[Wilfred Thomason Grenfell]Frontispiece
[View from Mostyn House, the Author's Birthplace, Parkgate, Cheshire]2
[Oxford University Rugby Union Football Team]44
[The Labrador Coast]120
[Eskimo Woman and Baby]128
[Eskimo Man]128
[Eskimo Girls]132
[Battle Harbour]140
[A Labrador Burial]156
[The Labrador Doctor in Summer]164
[The Strathcona]192
[Three of the Doctor's Dogs]198
[A Komatik Journey]202
[The First Coöperative Store]218
[St. Anthony]226
[Inside the Orphanage]250
[Fish on the Flakes]272
[Drying the Seines]272
[A Part of the Reindeer Herd]296
[Reindeer Teams meeting a Dog Team]296
[A Spring Scene at St. Anthony]304
[Dog Race at St. Anthony]304
[Icebergs]320
[Commodore Peary on his Way back from the Pole, 1909]340
[The Institute, St. John's]354
[Dog Travel]368
[The Labrador Doctor in Winter]406
[Entrance To St. Anthony Harbour]418

A LABRADOR DOCTOR

CHAPTER I[ToC]

EARLY DAYS

To be born on the 28th of February is not altogether without its compensations. It affords a subject of conversation when you are asked to put your name in birthday books. It is evident that many people suppose it to be almost an intrusion to appear on that day. However, it was perfectly satisfactory to me so long as it was not the 29th. As a boy, that was all for which I cared. Still, I used at times to be oppressed by the danger, so narrowly missed, of growing up with undue deliberation.