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Wednesday, July 13, 1960 My neighbour has a colourâ€" ful, if somewhat blunt, manâ€" ner of speech. In describing the weather Guring the early spring months he had but ome word for it, "stinking". He should know, for he is a partâ€" time farmer who depends on his 12 acres for food for nis1 above average size family of four children and visiting relaâ€" l tives who frequently oversuy‘ their welcome. They all have voracious appetites and can make the groaning board of a farm kitchen look like devasâ€" tated Chile, before a meal is well on its way to dessert. Seeds rotted and were reâ€" sown in the moisture saturatâ€" ed garden, potatoes in the field soured and sprouts turnâ€" ed black,, blossoms on trees dropped before bees were even aware they had bloomed and the strawberry patch drowned under its own thatch of overâ€" HiWay Market Your Family Shopping Center Monday Thru Saturday OPEN EVERY > BIGGER i0 P 1O 10 PM EVER! 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I have never won anything more valuable than a spring hat at a bazaar. I think this is what obsessed me. It would be just my luck noticed it? 1 am afraid not, for sadly emough, he announced he didn‘t want the pool cither. Neediess to say I didn‘t. The day the winner was chosen the sun shone from dawn to dusk. membered how 1 hate cold water. I haven‘t the courage of I never saw such a beautiful ._PAGE THREE