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PG. 20. VILLAGE SQUIRE/JUNE 1978.
BY G.P.
There are things from the past that one,is glad to have said
good bye to, once and for all. Some that readers with snowy locks
will recall are frantic dashes to the privy on subzero nights in
winter or during summer thunderstorms. There was the
Saturday night bath with the galvanized washtub drawn close to
the old cat iron`range in the kitchen. Threshing dry peas was the
Joe job to end all Joe jobs.
But no one who relished the joys of the old family picnics can
look back with other than deep nostalgia for past good times.
Maybe boys, because they are all born with hollow legs and arms
have fonder memories than girls, for that was surely next to
Christmas the great day of the year for eating. r
I grew up in my Dad's family settlement where the sense of
relationship was a truly strong bond, and used to go to not one
annual family picnic but four. They were a prolific lot and it was
exciting to arrive and look about you knowing that every last one