Billy Topsail, M.D.: A Tale of Adventure With Doctor Luke of the Labrador
Norman Duncan
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_BILLY TOPSAIL, M.D._
_The "Billy Topsail" Books_
By NORMAN DUNCAN
Each Illustrated, 12mo, cloth, net $1.25
_The Adventures of Billy Topsail_
"There was no need to invent conditions or imagine situations. The lifeof any lad of Billy Topsail's years up there is sufficiently romantic.It is this skill in the portrayal of actual conditions that lie ready tothe hand of the intelligent observer that makes Mr. Duncan'sNewfoundland stories so noteworthy."--_Brooklyn Eagle._
_Billy Topsail and Company_
"Another rousing volume of 'The Billy Topsail Books.' Norman Duncanhas the real key to the boy heart and in Labrador he has opened up afield magnetic in its perils and thrills and endlessexcitements."--_Examiner._
_Billy Topsail, M. D._
A Tale of Adventure with "Doctor Luke of the Labrador."
The further adventures of Billy Topsail and Archie Armstrong on the ice,in the forest and at sea. In a singular manner the boys fall in with adoctor of the outposts and are moved to join forces with him. The doctoris Doctor Luke of the Labrador whose prototype as every one knows isDoctor Grenfell. Its pages are as crowded with brisk adventures as thoseof the preceding books.
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_BILLY TOPSAIL, M.D._
_A Tale of Adventure With Doctor Luke of the Labrador_
_By NORMAN DUNCAN_
_ILLUSTRATED_
_New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh_
Copyright, 1916, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave. Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
_To the Reader_
In this tale of the seas and ice-floes of Newfoundland and Labrador,Billy Topsail adventures with Doctor Luke of the Labrador. There arethrilling passages in the book. The author is frank to admit thehair-raising quality of them. Indeed, they have tickled his own scalp.Well, it is proper that the hair of the reader should sometimes stand onend and his eyes pop wide. The author would be a poor teller of tales ifhe could not manage as much--a charlatan if he did not. Yet thesethrilling passages are not the work of a saucy imagination, delightingin shudders, no matter what, but are all decently founded upon fact,true to the experience of the coast, as many a Newfoundlander, boy andman, could tell you.
Doctor Luke has often been mistaken for Doctor Wilfred Grenfell of theDeep Sea Mission. That should not be. No incident in this book is atranscript from Doctor Grenfell's long and heroic service. What BillyTopsail and Doctor Luke encounter, however, is precisely what the DeepSea Mission workers must encounter. It should be said, too, that as thetale is told of the spring of the year, when the ice breaks up and thefloes come drifting out of the north with great storms, Newfoundlandpresents herself in her worst mood. Yet the sun shines in Newfoundland,tender enough in summer weather--there are flowers on the hills and warmwinds on the sea; and such as learn to know the land come quickly tolove her for her beauty and for her friendliness.
N. D.
_New York, March, 1916._
