Transcriber's Note:
Inconsistent hyphenation and unusual spelling in theoriginal document have been preserved.
The illustration captions, listed only at the front of the original text, have been added to the illustrations for the benefit of the reader.
One obvious typographical error was corrected in this text, but not the dialect. For details, please see the end of this document.
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LE PETIT NORD
OR
ANNALS OF A LABRADOR HARBOUR
BY
ANNE GRENFELL AND KATIE SPALDING
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1920
COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
FOREWORD
A friend from the Hub of the Universe, in a somewhat superciliousmanner, not long ago informed one of our local friends that his ownhome was hundreds of miles to the southward. "'Deed, sir, how does youmanage to live so far off?" with a scarcely perceptible twinkle of oneeye, was the answer.
If home is the spot on earth where one spends the larger part of one'sprime, and where one's family comes into being, then for over aquarter of a century "Le Petit Nord" of this book has been my home.With the authors I share for it and its people the love which alonekeeps us here. Necessity has compelled me to perform, howeverimperfectly, functions usually distributed amongst many and variedprofessions, and the resultant intimacy has become unusual. As,therefore, I read the amusing experiences herein narrated, I feelthat the "other half," who know us not, will love us better even if weare not exactly as they. That is not our fault. They should not live"so far off."
The incidents told are all actual, but the name of every single personand place has been changed to afford any hypersensitive among theactors the protection which pseudonymity confers. We here who havebeen permitted a glimpse of these pages feel that we really owe theauthors another debt beyond the love for the people to which they havetestified by the more substantial offering of long and voluntarypersonal service.
Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
Labrador, 1919