Produced by Jeannie Howse, Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has | | been preserved. | | | | This work has dialect and unusual spellings. | | | | Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. For | | a complete list, please see the end of this document. | | | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * [Illustration: A FORD CAR CAN'T DO THIS] Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North By FULLERTON WALDO Author of "With Grenfell on the Labrador," "Down the Mackenzie," etc. [Illustration] PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1924, by GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY _All rights reserved_ Printed in U.S.A. _To MARY CASTLEMAN DAVIS_ _December 15, 1923._ DEAR WALDO: You who have sampled the salt breezes of the North on board my boat, have, I know, imbibed the spirit that actuates the belief that in a world like ours we can all be knights. I know that like ourselves, you look upon the world as a field of honor, and its only durable prizes the things that we can accomplish in it. You see the fun in it all--the real joie de vivre. Well, we are doing our best, and it is giving us a great return. We haven't lost the capacity to enjoy soft things, but we have learned the joys of trying to endure hardness as good soldiers. Would to God that every American boy would realize that the only real great prize of life is to be won by being willing to take blows and willing to suffer misunderstanding and opposition, so long as he may follow in the footsteps of that most Peerless Knight that ever lived; He who saw that the meaning of life was, that in it we might, wherever we are, be always trying to do good. Ever your friend, WILFRED T. GRENFELL. CONTENTS I. A BOY AND THE SEA 11 II. SCHOOL--AND AFTER 22 III. WESTWARD HO! FOR LABRADOR 35 IV. HAULED BY THE HUSKIES 74 V. SOME REAL SEA-DOGS 97 VI. HUNTING WITH THE ESKIMO 114 VII. LITTLE PRINCE POMIUK 137