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Bezig met laden... Butter down the well: Reflections of a Canadian childhooddoor Robert Collins
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An intimate and entertaining remembrance of prairie childhood during the lean, hungry years of the 1920's. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The risk in farming was maddening, and yet...exhilarating. Take a pail of fresh, foaming milk and, hey-presto! Suddenly it was butter, cream and drinks for boys, calves, chickens and cats. That black field of fresh, damp furrows, dappled with Franklin gulls scavenging for worms: with a little rain, luck and a prayer or two, it turned into Thatcher wheat, bowing golden in the wind. That barren garden, monochrome gray, surely dead forever: pamper it with countless hand-lugged pails of water and interminable hours of hoeing and fertilizing, and suddenly one morning -- green shoots cracking through the crust. Always, that little miracle of growth-again filled me with foolish joy.
The writing is wonderful and many of the stories are funny. But I think the real joy for me came from the fact that I recognized so much of what he was writing. I grew up on a farm too although it was in Manitoba and it was thirty years after Collins but many of the challenges were the same. Farming was still done on a modest scale and there were few amenities. Just like Collins, I wouldn't have traded it for the world. (