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they reseMbled, men; they mar.
The iftiaelVata peopled the Siding ever the *Ct. The goo area of 9,851,113 tt
re mitArk es. Nor ea, $ an
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country in the WOrld With Eli Al% * d
Yet .the vast majority of its-
rOgfollt114g ,Witli all the power
404 , PrtieeSset-of nature. No
It* Sh011etoriO cloud formed, no
wind in.
shipssails but they
imagination, a god pre -
fled, had children, loved, hated,
ate, slept 'and, in general, fol-
lowed an existence like that of
mankind except -that they were
immortal -they did not die.
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Season is over.
population lives no tarater ‘hon
125 miles from the border with'
the United States. Only one-
tenth of, the population resides
as far away as 250 iniles.,:-"yet
Canada stretches almost 3000
-miles between its southern and
northern extremities.
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(By Harry J. i3oyle) ithemo'on loan from the library!
1 * •
The one -room 'school had a
limited library of soinewhat
tattered and dog-eared books
which were kept under lock and
key. At some point in the ted-
ium of going to school a teacher
asked me one day before Christ-
mas holidays if I would like to
take home a book to read dur-
ing the holiday season. More
to please her than anything, be-
cause my heart was set on skat-
ing and sleighriding during
holiday time, I agreed and she
handed me Captain's Courag-
eous.
The book stayed with my
forgotten
portunity to rent books or takeschool books and
In the winter -locked fastness
of a rural concession in On-
tario I had a nagging desire for
books. At that timejmoks were
not considered to be of para-
mount importance to the major-
ity •of rural residents. How
times have changed!
Now you find raeks of pocket
books in the,drug store, the
billiard parlor and the lobby
of the hotel. The lady who
ran "a millinery shop has
branched into gifts and notions
and has .a lending library.
There's' a very good library in
the village hall. How as a boy
would have enjoyed the op- '" then we had a blizzard. It was
!
one of those howlers that swept
down with ferocity followed by
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nolatly bleil(the tinow into 10012-1,
ster, drifts and plugged, up the
concession.
We were triilt winterlocked
and mother with true wonuoVa
instinct started to bake bread.
The front parlor, normally
opened in wintertime for fes-
tive occasions or a Sunday
evening, was pressed into ser-
vice with a roaring fire in the
beater. Bored of peering into
the stereopticon I picked up the
book and suddenly a new world
seemed to open up.
. - * * *
There were plenty of things
in that book that my mind
couldn't comprehend and while
my father, as a, landlubber,
wasn't of much use in inter-
preting, grandfather supplied
the details. When I re -read
the book a good many, years
later I realized that his imagin-
ation had supplied a great
many erroneous details.
That book unlocked the door
for me. I must have read it
three or four times during the
Christmas holida.,LThenI
w-efiriliearch-61 more reading
material. Our library was lim-
ited to a Bible, a copy of Nome
Veterinary Remedies, Lives Of
The Saints arld a pictorial his-
tory of World War I, which I
had looked at many times with-
out reading the text.
As I realize it now, the teach-
er was delighted when I went
back to school thirsting for
more reading adventure. She
gave me a col* of Black Beauty
and then I 'ran afoul of some of
the old prejudices that existed
about reading. When I was
supposed to be doing chores
I was reading. It didn't matter
if the room was cold. I didn't
notice it. There was a general
agreement that I was reading
too much arid would ruin my
eyes. The book was placed on
the clock shelf and 1 was sent
to. bed in the evening.
It was a long time to wait
until the house had settled
down and then by the dim
light of the turned -don lamp
in the the hallway I woe ld creep
down the creaky stairs and take
the book back up to bed. Un-
der the covers with a candle I
finished Black Beauty, and it's
a wonder I didn't burn the
house down.
* 4. *
My uncle, the storekeeper,
had a liking for books and I
discovered. he had quite a stock
of them. This was treasure in-
deed and my strongest mem-
ories concern a book called Cast
Up By The Sea. It was many
,years before I could disabuse
myself of the idea that the
South Sea 'natives could smell
intruders for miles away.
When it became apparent
that, like an alcoholic who can
always find a supply of spirits,
I could /find books, there was a
great deal more tolerance
shown to me. ' To my , amaze-
ment I received' three books for
Christrrias. My uncle gave me
an. Edgar Wallace mystery, my
mother bought me one of the
Anne of Green Gables series
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There was some doubt about
the Edgar Wallace book being
suitable for my tender years.
Father picked it up as I was
going to bed on Christmas
night. Immersed by candle-
light in the Green Gables book
I realized it was midnight by
the chiming of the clock. It
was then I heard father climb-
ing the stairs to bed. It was the
first time, outside 'of an emerg-
ency, I had .ever heard him de-
viate from his regular bedtime
of 9.30.
he read' very well. This was a
new adventure. It was fun to
curl up in the arm chair beside
the kitchen range and watch the
characters come alive .in' the
curling flames that could be
seen throdgh the open damper.
Come alive they did and I can
still feel the salt of tears as he
read about Little Nell. Vicar-
iously I followed David Copper -
field.
Even grandpa, who at k'st
pretended not to pay any at-
tention, would let the pipe go
out and the ashes slither down
his vest, -and you could hear
him muttering dire threats at
some of the villians who luiked
in the shadows of that kitchen
at night when the wind strain-
ed through the pine boughs on
the west side of the house or
rattled a storm window at an
eerie spot in the story. 4
*
, Somehow books started com-
ing to our home after that.
My aunt would save me book
sections from weekly, papers
and I read everything I could
get my hands on.. I found that
father, in place of spending
Sunday afternoon on the sofa,
would .be reading, and my mo-
ther darning a sock one even-
ing asked him to read aloud.
, He -cleared his throat and
Stammered -,sbOot not reading
very well but he started at the
beginning of §ilas Marner -and
* rb *
Books in our isolation came
to be a link with another world
of imagination. From those
three books on that first Christ-
17;wiaged to get. a shelf
ladoks, • Expbnents 0of'7select4
ed reading would have said
they were certainly a ragtail
and bobtail group but, from
Manuel to Mowgli, they were
somehow the closest friends Of
a boy growing up in the winter
isolation of an Ontario farm.
Somehow I feel sorry now
for a generatipn, surfeited with
wealth.of all kinds of books,
that neglects the substance of
them for the shadows of so
many other forms of so-called
entertainment.
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