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C. W. Holliday. The Valley of Youth
The Valley of Youth
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PART I. Fifty Thousand Miles
Chapter I. INTO THE GOLDEN WEST
Chapter II ’FRISCO
Chapter III. TO ENGLAND AND BACK AGAIN
PART II. The Land of My Dreams
Chapter I. ENTRANCE TO THE VALLEY
Chapter II. SOME IMPRESSIONS OF OUR INDIANS
Chapter III. THE ROAD TO VERNON, AND THE VILLAGE OF LANSDOWNE
Chapter IV. THE METAMORPHOSIS OF VERNON
Chapter V. VERNON TO OKANAGAN MISSION
Chapter VI. THE BEGINNINGS OF KELOWNA
Chapter VII. A JOURNEY DOWN THE LAKE
Chapter VIII. THE “LOWER COUNTRY”
Chapter IX. THE SHUSWAP AND OKANAGAN RAILWAY
Chapter X. A LITTLE LOGGING CAMP
Chapter XI. THE LAW, SOME LAW-BREAKERS AND SOME LAW-MAKERS
Chapter XII. RELIGION, ROUGH AND READY
Chapter XIII. HOW WE AMUSED OURSELVES
Chapter XIV. OUR “LAWFUL OCCASIONS”
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C. W. Holliday
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Every Saturday the forecastle was also scrubbed out in the same way; the men piling their belongings in their bunks, for although the fo’c’sle was a gloomy-looking place, it was kept spotlessly clean, for sailors were almost fastidious in this regard; they considered houses on shore as rather dirty places; if a deck or floor was not clean enough to eat your dinner from—well, it just wasn’t clean!
At times a touch of sport was added to deck washing when our two pigs were turned loose, and after having a few buckets of water heaved over them, were also scrubbed down. They seemed to enjoy this; the sport came when all hands chased them round the deck, trying to get them in their pen again. Alas, poor piggies, their fate was that of all pigs, and the day came, long looked forward to on our part, when they were to be converted into fresh pork. But when that fatal day arrived, a difficulty arose, it appeared that no one on board knew anything about killing pigs! Finally the captain took charge; Chips was ordered to get a seven-pound sledge, with which he was to fell the pig; the cook was then to step in and finish the job with his longest butcher knife.
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