Billy Topsail, M.D.: A Tale of Adventure With Doctor Luke of the Labrador

' Dog Meat, and Billy Topsail Begins an Adventure that Eventually Causes

t was the end of her flitting about. It was the end, too, of Billy Topsail's rosy expectation of an hilarious return to his home at Ruddy Cove. Winter fell down next day. A great wind blew with snow and

or in a way that did not lack the aspects of an adventure of heroic proportions. It was no great hardship to pass the winter at Tight Cove: there was something to do all the while-trapping in the bac

ale of how Doctor Luke and Bi

of winter travel, which measured his northern round, and his komatik (sled) was occupied by an old dame of Run-by-Guess Harbour and a young man of Anxious Bight. The destitute old dame of Run-by-Guess Harbour

this desperate business of healing, was in haste, and the patients on the komatik were in need too urgent for any dawdling for rest by th

lamp-lit cottage by Jack-in-the-Box. It was with Teddy Br

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dear," she replied,

s inference

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also a poor young fel

Brisk

," said he positively.

be devised, and whatever degree of compression might be attempted, and no matter what generous measure of patience might be exercised by everybody concerned,

Nor could Teddy Brisk, going afoot, keep pace with the Doctor's hearty strides and the speed of the Doctor's team-not though he had

eg ever you saw; but the other had gone bad-not so recently, however, that the keen Doctor Lu

d leg with a severely critical eye; and he popped more questions at Teddy Brisk, as Teddy

e at last. "I

un up, sir?" cr

ay, with the Brotherly Love, on the reef by Fly Away Head, in the

tor complained. "I te

good as new, si

d. "Aha!" he laughed. "You l

illy Topsail'

h of professional expectation; "and if it isn't as good as new when the job's fini

k's mother

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the mother, "what little

on?" the Doc

at's t' use the kn

He grinned and twinkled

ghed. "That sui

pper Thomas: "Send the lad over to the hospital as soon as you can, Skipper Thomas. When the ice goes out we'll be crowded to the roof at Our Harbour. It's the sam

ill,

any day. It must be pretty fair going out there. You can't bring him yourself, Skipper Thomas. Who can? Somebody here? Timothy Light? Old Sam's bro

as replied; "we've dogs, sir

se d

y Light

or grinn

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afraid o' them, sir. That big Cracker, sir, that Timothy haves for bully an' leader-he've fair spoile

ghed-as a man will

that pack," he drawled.

wolf!" the w

ight, now, as ever you seed, sir. They hung round the harbour for a day an' a night. You might think, sir, that Cracker was showin' off his ne

lf wolf

rue. Cracker was not all wolf. "I never heard o' nobody that kn

rew-the pac

kipper Thomas. "The dogs have gone marvellous hungry

k it," the Doctor advised. "I'l

Brisk

haves command

er protested. "I'm not so sure that any man could comman

is ample, glowing daught

t lad o' yourn

doe

d make a nice little

he laughed, "I

little face. And then Doctor Luke, with a laugh and a boyish "So long, Ted