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Brothers of Peril A Story of Old Newfoundland By Theodore Roberts Author of "Hemming, the Adventurer" Illustrated by H. C. Edwards Boston L. C. Page & Company Mdccccv [Pg iv] Copyrig…
A BOY WINS HIS MAN-NAME The boy struck again with his flint knife, and again the great wolf tore at his shoulder. The eyes of the boy were fierce as those of the beast. Neither wavered. Neither showe…
THE OLD CRAFTSMAN BY THE SALT WATER Montaw, the arrow-maker, dwelt alone at the head of a small bay. His home was half-wigwam, half-hut. The roof was of poles, partly covered with the hides of caribo…
THE FIGHT IN THE MEADOW Even while the arrow-maker carried the wounded woman, arrows of the same shape as that which had stabbed her tender flesh were threatening the little village on the River of T…
OUENWA SETS OUT ON A VAGUE QUEST In the dead of winter—in that season of sweeping winds and aching skies, when the wide barrens lie uncheered of life from horizon to horizon—Soft Hand sent many of hi…
THE ADMIRAL OF THE HARBOUR Spring brought ice-floes and bergs from the north, and millions of Greenland seals. For weeks the little bay on which Montaw and Black Feather had their lodges was choked w…
THE FANGS OF THE WOLF SLAYER When Trowley recovered consciousness, he was lying in his berth, with a bandage around his head. Kingswell looked in at him, smiling in a way that the old mariner was beg…
THE SILENT VILLAGE As soon as the Pelican was out of arrow-shot of the cliff, the Beothics disappeared. Ouenwa laid aside his bow with a sigh of regret. Then he tried to repeat to Kingswell what he …
A LETTER FOR OUENWA Two headlands were rounded before the valley of the river opened again to the eyes of the adventurers. The brown water of the stream stole down and merged into the dancing, wind-b…
AN UNCHARTERED PLANTATION In a cave in White Bay the voyagers traded with a party of friendly natives. Farther north they found indications of copper, and collected a bagful of the mother rock. In la…
