Left on the Labrador

Left on the Labrador, by Dillon Wallace

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Title: Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North
Author: Dillon Wallace
Release Date: December 8, 2006 [EBook #20059]
Language: English
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The LABRADOR TALES of DILLON WALLACE
Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventures Down North. Illustrated $1.75
The Testing of Jim MacLean A Tale of the Wilds of Labrador. Illustrated $1.75
Troop One of the Labrador A Tale of Life Out-of-Doors. Illustrated $1.75
The Ragged Inlet Guards A Story of Adventure in Labrador. Illustrated $1.75
Grit-A-Plenty A Tale of the Labrador Wild. Illustrated $1.75
The Gaunt Gray Wolf Fur-Trapping on the Labrador. Illustrated $1.75
Ungava Bob A Tale of the Fur Trappers. Illustrated $1.75
The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador A Boy's Life of Wilfred T. Grenfell. Illustrated $1.50
The Lure of the Labrador Wild The Story of the Exploring Expedition conducted by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. Illustrations and Maps. 8vo, cloth $2.50
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[Illustration: HE HELD THE AX READY TO STRIKE THE FIRST ATTACKING ANIMAL. (See page 189.)]
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LEFT ON THE LABRADOR
A Tale of Adventure Down North
By DILLON WALLACE
Author of "Troop One of the Labrador," "The Testing of Jim MacLean," "The Lure of the Labrador Wild," etc., etc.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK--CHICAGO Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh
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Copyright, MCMXXVII, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 851 Cass Street London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 99 George Street
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To Her Whose Never Failing Loyalty and Devotion is My Fount of Inspiration My Wife
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This life is not all sunshine, Nor is it yet all showers; But storms and calms alternate, As thorns among the flowers, And while we seek the roses, The thorns full oft we scan, Still let us, though they wound us, Be happy as we can.
This life has heavy crosses, As well as joys to share, And griefs and disappointments, Which you and I must bear. And if we may not follow The path our hearts would plan, Let us make all around us As happy as we can.
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CONTENTS
I. THE LOST PASSENGER 9 II. THE TWIGS OF PINCH-IN TICKLE 19 III. SKIPPER ZEB FIXES MATTERS 25 IV. MISSING 34 V. WRECKED 43 VI. THE CAMP AT THE DUCK'S HEAD 53 VII. A SNUG BERTH 64 VIII. THE TRAIL OF A LYNX 77 IX. THE FAR WILDERNESS 86 X. SKIPPER ZEB'S TRAPPING PATH 99 XI. THE WORST FIX OF ALL 112 XII. THE PANGS OF STARVATION 126 XIII. THE GREAT SNOWY OWL 141 XIV. THE BAY FASTENS 146 XV. LOST IN THE BARRENS 156 XVI. A WALL OF SNOW 171 XVII. SKIPPER ZEB'S DOGS 176 XVIII. THE FIGHT WITH THE WOLVES 188 XIX. CHARLEY'S NEW RIFLE 198 XX. THE REBELLION OF THE DOGS 213 XXI. THE CARIBOU HUNT 223 XXII. THE STRANGER 240 XXIII. THE LOST FUR 255 XXIV. THE VENGEANCE OF THE PACK 266 XXV. AMISHKU AND MAIGEN, THE INDIANS 273 XXVI. THE END OF THE FIX 281
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ILLUSTRATIONS Facing Page
HE HELD THE AX READY TO STRIKE THE FIRST ATTACKING ANIMAL title
"SHE'S GONE! THE SHIP HAS GONE!" CRIED CHARLEY IN SUDDEN FRIGHT 18
SKIPPER ZEB'S OAR BROKE, AND THE BOAT WAS DRIVEN UPON A ROCK 154
THE GREAT PAW SENT TOBY SPRAWLING 214
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I
THE LOST PASSENGER
Charley Norton was bored and unhappy. He stood at the starboard rail of the mail boat gazing out at the cold, bleak rocks of the Labrador coast, dimly visible through fitful gusts of driving snow.
Charley Norton and his father's secretary, Hugh Wise, had boarded the ship at St. John's ten days before for the round trip voyage to Hopedale, and during the voyage there had not been one pleasant day. Biting blasts swept the deck, heralding the winter near at hand, and there was no protecting nook where one could escape them and sit in any degree of comfort. The cabin was close and stuffy, and its atmosphere was heavy with that indescribable odor that rises from the bowels of old ships. The smoking room, bare and dismal and reeking with stale tobacco smoke, was deserted, save when the mail boat doctor and Hugh Wise were occasionally discovered there in a silent game of checkers.
Charley had tried every corner of the ship to which he was admitted, and had decided that, as uncomfortable as it was, he preferred the deck to cabin or smoking room.
It was the middle of October, and the last voyage the mail boat was to make until the end of the following June, when the winter's ice would clear