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We greeted spring with some mixed feelings. The exuberance of longer days and warmer sun was dampened by the ordeal of deep mud on roads that greatly impeded the already limited travel by horse and wagon. It did mean lots of time after supper for country—style baseball games with two or three buddies - Ellsworth Conrad, Boyd Kemp, Carl Hicken, Kenneth MacKinnon, Roy Kearney - or yard hockey with impromptu hockey sticks and crushed tin cans for pucks! Late spring, of course, heralded the end of another school year and the freedom of an endless summer.

What a feeling of release we had when we marched home with the year- end report card and the prospect of the