Clearing in the West. My Own Story

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Nellie Letitia McClung. Clearing in the West. My Own Story

Clearing in the West. My Own Story

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Nellie Letitia McClung

Published by Good Press, 2021

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which never failed to draw fire from my youngest brother, who hated it violently. Perhaps he was repelled by the lowly occupation of his namesake, or his lack of ambition, but anyway it registered. I used it myself against him, but only when I was at a safe distance. Jack had a great distaste for anything sentimental and always went out, when a story was being read to us, which had anything in it of love or courtship. He said he “would never get married: he would live with a man and keep dogs.”

We all knew mother was agitated as she went around the house, for she banged doors and set down stove-lids noisily. And she kept everyone going at top speed. Even I knew she was in some sort of tribulation of spirit. . . . When everything else was done, the leach had to be watered; and that was one little chore I could do.

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