back to the manse, Mrs. Aitken had been stark naked when she passed through to collect her dress.

The hardwood floors kept Margaret employed when the Aitken family left and the Rev. Woodside came. Mrs. Wood- side, a Home Economist, was pregnant when she arrived and upon seeing the hardwood floors, which were difficult to care for in those days, sat on the floor and cried. Margaret was again hired as a housekeeper and nanny. Mrs. Woodside was a great cook and taught Margaret her culi- nary skills.

Margaret adored the two families and their children; an affection that was returned and, in later years, when Margaret had her own home and family, the Aitkens and Woodsides paid many a visit.

LARRY YEO The following poem was submitted by published author Larry Yea. - fwf’kmwww i' OBSERVATIONS OF A SIX YEAR OLD, ‘THE DEVIL’ by Larry Yeo

The Devil is a red-headed kid with freckled knuckles. Each day at school I get a thrashing from this little

freckled monster.

You see he is embarrassingly smaller than me.

My Baptist friends used to tell me about the real

Devil and how it was impossible to hide from him.

I was scarder of the freckled knuckled kind except that the real one didn’t seem to be a bag of chocolates either.

My friends would say, “Hell is where the Devil lives and the Devil keeps a roaring fire going and all you

United Church people are tossed in sooner or later and your toenails will burn right off and after your toenails are gone you United Church people have to stand there

on your bare feet on red—hot coals until a Baptist friend came along

and pulled you out

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