Treat Us Generously

Treat Us Generously
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Jilly was a war baby. Not from the battlefields of World War II Europe and its now shabby cities. She lived in Nova Scotia, on Canada's Atlantic coast, in a small town three thousand miles away from the European front. Yet the war seemed to find her. Every Nova Scotian town is near the ocean, and yet Bridgewater was considered inland, in a way as insulated as eleven-year-old Jilly. The big house in Bridgewater was on a main highway, full of old antiques and plenty of noise, with spoiled uncles running off to Halifax in new cars earned by way of those old-fashioned antiques to where the girls were the prettiest in the province.
Yet the war took them away from Bridgewater, and from Jilly, not to a war-torn front, but the far reach of their own country. Except for Skip. Best friend. Tall, handsome, athletic. Shipped overseas to the swamps, jungles, and heat of Burma.
And then there is the improbable and contrary sport of baseball. For Skip, an old man of thirty, bent over by disease, torture, and humiliation, all would vanish with a crack of a bat on an extraordinary field far away.
Nostalgic and winsome, Treat Us Generously has woven the threads of self-assured young men, a young girl on the inharmonious side of her teens, and baseball, with a war fought not only thousands of miles away, but also at home.

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June Everett. Treat Us Generously

Treat Us Generously

Table of Contents

Part I

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Part II

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

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June Everett

Ella and Dorothy were probably there too, but I could not tell. But you could always tell the booming voices of Uncle Irving, and the smooth sound of Cary Grant, that is, my Uncle Lou.

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Sometimes, my uncles and friends would go out to Ketepec for dances in the old Casino out there, and they would come back awfully late to our porch, and again, brought along Glenn Miller.

Our home was really a member of our family. An old, big, and even a gallant house with a large sweeping lawn out front and 3 garages out back. Through the Depression, I had heard it cost a lot to keep it going, and there was more than one cold room through those winters. But it was like our child too, and we managed it. And now, with the War, my grandmother decided to rent out the caretaker’s place in the back-it was just a very large kitchen with 2 bedrooms. And she also rented the 3 back bedrooms upstairs, to girls who worked in the new spice plant opened by Batten’s; or to young wives whose husbands were shipped overseas. One even brought a baby.

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