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     wire. Nevertheless, it was always 
     
     exciting to gaze through the mesh at what 
     
     seemed to be a great array of wonderful 
     
     things. The store opened six days a week 
     
     at eight in the morning, and it remained 
     
     open each night until ten or eleven. 
     
     Every night the same group of local men 
     
     gathered for an evening of tall tales 
     
     around the warm coal stove in the centre 
     
     of the store. They spun yarns until 
     
     closing time. George Griffin would be 
     
     there exchanging stories with Bert 
     
     Taylor, Alex Jackson, Dick Sencabaugh, 
     
     Sterling Conrad, William Jamieson, Jim 
     
     McNaulty, and several other tellers of tall 
     
     tales. 
     
    

    
     For many years, our aunt, Helen 
     
     Farrell, worked at the store. She went to 
     
     work at eight in the morning and left for 
     
     home at eight that evening. She not only