Chapter VIII: Hopes Realized and the Journey Ended 106

HOW “KID” MADE GOOD 133

AN APPEAL TO PLAY THE GAME FAIRLY 149

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“Robert Grabbed the Savage by the Throat” _Frontispiece_

Hearing the Story of Opportunity 14

Saying Good-Bye to the Home-Folk 19

“He Leaped from the Deck” 32

“For the First Time Saw Polar Bears” 38

“The First Man to Grasp the Hand of the Captain” 40

Starting Out from Fort Churchill 44

“With a Farewell Wave of the Hand” 46

“Companionship in the Temple of God’s Great Solitude” 50

“The Animals Rushed to One Side” 53

The Party Leaving Fort Garry 63

Starting a Fifteen-Hundred-Mile Journey 77

“Wolf After Wolf Fell from the Blows” 88

“You’re a Coward” 91

“For a Moment He Hesitated” 100

“No Letter from Sandy” 103

“One Morning a Youth Started Out” 106

“He Cooked His Supper Over the Fire” 109

“With a Prayer of Thankfulness” 117

“Thus Were Robert’s Early Hopes and Plans Realized” 128

A Scene in the Lumber Woods Thirty Years Ago 143

Dressing a Pine Monarch for Shipment 143

Some of Canada’s Big Men 149

“Men of To-Morrow” 151

Boys and Girls of the Burlington Public School 153