Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys   By: Norman Duncan (1871-1916)

THE "BILLY TOPSAIL" BOOKS

By NORMAN DUNCAN

THE ADVENTURES OF BILLY TOPSAIL

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"There was no need to invent conditions or imagine situations. The life of any lad of Billy Topsail's years up there is sufficiently romantic. It is this skill in the portrayal of actual conditions that lie ready to the hand of the intelligent observer that makes Mr. Duncan's Newfoundland stories so noteworthy. 'The Adventures of Billy Topsail' is a wonderful book." Brooklyn Eagle.

BILLY TOPSAIL AND COMPANY

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Every boy who knows Billy Topsail will welcome this continuation of his adventuresome life in the North. Like its predecessor, the new volume is a stirring story for boys, true to life, among the hardy sons of the sea, clean, pure and stimulating.

[Illustration: BILL O' BURNT BAY AND THE BOYS OF THE SPOT CASH COULD NOT FATHOM THE MYSTERY OF THE BLACK EAGLE .]

BILLY TOPSAIL & COMPANY

A Story for Boys

by

NORMAN DUNCAN

Author of "The Adventures of Billy Topsail," "Doctor Luke of The Labrador," "The Mother," "Dr. Grenfell's Parish"

Illustrated

[Illustration]

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Copyright, 1910, by Fleming H. Revell Company New York: 158 Fifth Avenue Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W. London: 21 Paternoster Square Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

To Chauncey Lewis and to "Buster," good friends both, sometimes to recall to them places and occasions at Mike Marr's: Dead Man's Point, Rolling Ledge, the Canoe Landing, the swift and wilful waters of the West Branch, Squaw Mountain, the trail to Dead Stream, the raft on Horseshoe, the Big Fish, the gracious kindness of the L. L. of E. O., (as well as her sandwiches), and the never to be forgotten flapjacks that "didn't look it" but were indeed "all there."

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. In Which Jimmie Grimm, Not Being Able to Help It, Is Born At Buccaneer Cove, Much to His Surprise, and Tog, the Wolf Dog, Feels the Lash of a Seal hide Whip and Conceives an Enmity 15

II. In Which Jimmie Grimm is Warned Not to Fall Down, and Tog, Confirmed in Bad Ways, Raids Ghost Tickle, Commits Murder, Runs With the Wolves, Plots the Death of Jimmie Grimm and Reaches the End of His Rope 24

III. In Which Little Jimmie Grimm Goes Lame and His Mother Discovers the Whereabouts of a Cure 33

IV. In Which Jimmie Grimm Surprises a Secret, Jim Grimm makes a Rash Promise, and a Tourist From the States Discovers the Marks of Tog's Teeth 41

V. In Which Jimmie Grimm Moves to Ruddy Cove and Settles on the Slope of the Broken Nose, Where, Falling in With Billy Topsail and Donald North, He Finds the Latter a Coward, But Learns the Reason, and Scoffs no Longer. In Which, Also, Donald North Leaps a Breaker to Save a Salmon Net, and Acquires a Strut 49

VI. In Which, Much to the Delight of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, Donald North, Having Perilous Business On a Pan of Ice After Night, is Cured of Fear, and Once More Puffs Out His Chest and Struts Like a Rooster 61

VII. In Which Bagg, Imported From the Gutters of London, Lands At Ruddy Cove From the Mail Boat, Makes the Acquaintance of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, and Tells Them 'E Wants to Go 'Ome. In Which, Also, the Way to Catastrophe Is Pointed 69