Harbor Tales Down North

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Harbor Tales Down North is by Norman Duncan, and the front matter lists an appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell. A list headed works of Norman Duncan names, among others, The Soul of the Street, The Way of the Sea and Doctor Luke of the Labrador. The text says that Norman Duncan possessed a very genuine understanding of children, particularly of young boys, of whom he was exceedingly fond.

Pinch-a-Penny was the only trader at Gingerbread Cove, and the text says he had the flour, the pork, the schooner and all the cash there was. A story headed Madman's Luck begins with the words "It was one thing or the other. Yet it might be neither." A speaker describes himself as a lad in love who thinks, "I'll take care o' my soul, lest it be cast away forever, God help me."

About the author

Norman Duncan

Norman Duncan combined fiction, journalism, and teaching in a career remembered for stories shaped by Newfoundland and other demanding northern settings. The Measure of a Man, first published in 1911 by Fleming H. Revell, moves to the lumber camps of the American woods.