Front matter
Reading edition
“I've a bad son, the day, Skipper Tommy,” said my Mother.—Page 23
DOCTOR LUKE of THE LABRADOR BY NORMAN DUNCAN GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers – New York
Copyright, 1904, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
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To My Own Mother and to her granddaughter Elspeth my niece
To the Reader
However bleak the Labrador—however naked and desolate that shore—flowers bloom upon it. However bitter the despoiling sea—however cold and rude and merciless—the gentler virtues flourish in the hearts of the folk.... And the glory of the coast—and the glory of the whole world—is mother-love: which began in the beginning and has continued unchanged to this present time—the conspicuous beauty of the fabric of life: the great constant of the problem.
N. D.
College Campus, Washington, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1904.