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ne of Dr. Grenfell’s volunteer helpers, Miss Luther of Providence, R. I., contributes the following account of the rescue as recited in the Newfoundland vernacular by one of the rescuing party.

“One day, about a week after Dr. Grenfell’s return,” says Miss Luther, ‘‘two men came in from Griquet, fifteen miles away. They had walked all that distance, though the trail was heavy with soft snow and they often sank to their waists and waded through brooks and ponds. ‘We just felt we must see the doctor and tell him what ’t would ’a’ meant to us, if he’d been lost.” Perhaps nothing Rh