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Real Show Place Sept When the last vestige of the world of Angus disappears under the advancing tide of the city I shall still have a tew faded photographs to rekindle the embers of memory The warmth nostalgia brings only the happy days the of my children In the springtime of life when everything was fresh and evergreen On Friday nights we would drag out the old both tub and bathe the kids in soft rain water collected In a tank under the kitchen In the warm evenings of summer bath night was a Joyous occasion to be celebrated outdoors alt splashes and laughter with naked little bodies chasing each other around the lawn We had so little In those days and yet we had so much It was Friday when I first arrived at the Hungry Hundred not to farm but to find cheap lodgings I was to board there until I had saved enough money to pay for my familys sea passage from the old country To me a stranger it was a harsh cold environment life in the raw totally different to what I had imagined and foreign to my previous existence Thrift was a byword In the household of Angus and there was only one room with heat the kitchen The cast Iron cookstove fueled by hardwood was a highly appreciated luxury which a person was loath to leave for the cold sparsely furnished bedrooms upstairs For a long time after my arrival I reflected bitterly on the madness which had caused me to resign the Kings Commission and seek a more challenging life In a new country Many times I doubted my ability to replace the life of a professional soldier with a bat typewriter Clearly at that time I belonged to a different lire style wheie gentlemen dressed for dinner In the Officers Mess and were accompanied by ladles in flowing gowns I thought often of the glitter of silver on highly polished oak white linen gourmet food and wine I had just started my evening meal having arrived late from the newspaper office There was cold pork some warmed up potatoes homemade pickles and bread Friday night was also the night when Angus at tended I he meeting I never did discover where it took place or for what purpose Unknown to me at that moment It was also a night for bathing and dressing up for this Important occasion Angus pulled the old bath tub In front of the stove and although I sensed my pending embarrassment I pre ended not to notice Nevertheless I seriously considered vacating the kitchen and taking my humble meal with me It was a toss up between my dignity and the warmth of the stove Com tort overruling my predicament I stayed put tor the free performance He made several trips to the soft water pump and carried buckets of water which he poured Into the bath Then he added hot water from a curious collection of utensils which had occupied the entire top surface of the stove Sitting precariously on a broken stool he unlaced his barn stained boots and them drop to the floor Some well darned socks followed He unbuckled his belt unzipped his zipper and his trousers and long Johns fell around his ankles Pulling them off he kicked them aside His shirt and tin dec vest he pulled over hla head as one piece and tossed them carelessly on top of his other abandoned garments He was naked His brown face neck hands and forearms were accentuated against his white blue veined skin There was a mark of an old war wound on his a scar of knotted flesh He heaveda painful over the side of the bath and dipped his toes Into the water Satisfied wlfh the temperature he withdrew his foot and turned and faced me as If oblivious to my embarrassment To this day I really believe he had intended this exhibition to be my baptism into the new lite as if he had to cut through the Limey snobbery which I had brought like an unwanted disease Into his house At that moment his eyes seemed to be bluer than at any time I can remember I could have been mistaken but It seemed as though I detected an Impish twinkle a sort of how does this grab you kind of look He jerked his head In a way he always did In a moment of triumph 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