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 imaginesituations. The life of any lad of Billy Topsail'syears up there is sufficiently romantic. Itis this skill in the portrayal of actual conditionsthat lie ready to the hand of the intelligent observerthat makes Mr. Duncan's Newfoundlandstories so noteworthy."—Brooklyn Eagle.
Billy Topsail and Company
"Another rousing volume of 'The Billy TopsailBooks.' Norman Duncan has the real key to theboy 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 theLabrador."
The further adventures of Billy Topsail andArchie Armstrong on the ice, in the forest and atsea. In a singular manner the boys fall in witha doctor of the outposts and are moved to joinforces with him. The doctor is Doctor Luke ofthe Labrador whose prototype as every one knowsis Doctor Grenfell. Its pages are as crowded withbrisk adventures as those of the preceding books.
BILLY TOPSAIL, M.D.
A Tale of Adventure WithDoctor Luke of the Labrador
By
NORMAN DUNCAN
ILLUSTRATED
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To the Reader
In this tale of the seas and ice-floes of Newfoundlandand Labrador, Billy Topsail adventureswith Doctor Luke of the Labrador.There are thrilling passages in the book. Theauthor is frank to admit the hair-raising quality ofthem. Indeed, they have tickled his own scalp.Well, it is proper that the hair of the readershould sometimes stand on end and his eyes popwide. The author would be a poor teller of talesif he could not manage as much—a charlatan ifhe did not. Yet these thrilling passages are notthe work of a saucy imagination, delighting inshudders, no matter what, but are all decentlyfounded upon fact, true to the experience of thecoast, as many a Newfoundlander, boy and man,could tell you.
Doctor Luke has often been mista