Part 10 (1/2)

Next day, the Doctor ca and outcries of honest pleasure as greeted him! And from the very first minute there were anxious appeals for his aid

”Doctor, would ye please come to see my old woman?”

”What's the matter with her?”

”Oh, Doctor, she does be took wonderful bad Sooes all up an' down an' it settles in her teeth an' the pains shoots her in the stummick an' we has to take hold of her ar an' we dunno what's the matter

Would you please come an' see? She's askin' us to kill her she's in such punishht to do it without askin' you Would you please come 'n' see?”

In that first winter Grenfell was ”at home” three Sundays only, and he had to cover fifteen hundred , bone-racking -rink But not very often

One day he had a run of seventy miles to make across the frozen country

The path was not broken out--it wasn't even cut and blazed

Just once had the leading dog made the journey

But because he had o

Straight on the good dog went, never stopping to turn round and look in the face of the driver, the way dogs will

The way--such as it was--took the with snow

”Halt!” called Grenfell The driver gave the cos They stopped and rested while the ht A clih tree showed the ”leads” and proved to the ht direction: and the coain they stopped--and every tiht

On journey after journey of this kind, round about St Anthony on that far northern peninsula of Newfoundland, Grenfell and the dogs he drove got to know and love one another better

Grenfell has done seventy-five oes depends on the state of the ice and snow and the roughness of the trail: so their very hearts out, are able to cover Six oing” Once the Doctor made twenty-one miles in a littleof the sled, or komatik, is a , of black spruce, with runners an inch thick, covered with spring steel With such a sled, and a good teas attached with proper traces, travel on fir experience But a thousand and one thingsbloody quarrels, and continual vigilance is the price of a swift, se

A member of Grenfell's staff had crossed a neck of land between two bays, and was ”twenty s struck the fresh trail of deer

At such tis are likely to take leave of all their senses save the instinct of the chase These plucky beasts were no exception to the rule

As they were short of food, the two teams were hitched to one sled, and the other sled, laden, was left in charge of a boy, while thedeck, the boy had been told not to stir froot under way, a terrible snowstor up from nowhere, and so enveloped and bewildered the hunters that for two days they wandered, till they lost all hope

Then, by great good luck, starving and worn out, they ca and weary miles from where the boy was left with the komatiks

They sent a relief tea by the sleds like a good, true soldier, just where they told him to reh he should freeze stiff for his obedience to orders