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. his -«work. While hundreds of cattle, drifting before the hlizfi

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trapped in coolies and gulches or against the fence 1inee.,~o}1r  of 110 odd \
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the city.  I18-rm life was efllnew to me. 31:33: At first I an

celgeiy. There my husband built a model ranch. our building were
/s.11’modern and up todete. k%c  Immense implementfi
 up to house and protect the implements, my husbe.n.d?.ibserv'in.g that
a. tremendous amount of waste was evezywhere noticeable through the habit of the
 of leaving the implemnts out all winter. We put up long oettle sheds,
where in the stoma the cattle had a. place for shelter, and tile/first 
blizzard —— it a. blinding snov~¢tom~-tint whirled: ‘otter the country ' ~
life a. living mad turn: destructive force —--—. demonstrated  wisdome  I 4’

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head came up the lanes and sheltered safely in the long sheds. my bad.  «\

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at my husband. for expending so much money on "fancy sheds for cattle, vhd can \

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rustle just as well out in the open"; but after that blizzard they :1 0 longer
laugh and other similar sheds went. up all around us.

by It was ’p’a1"?g,2’-'é'é.'1E"§:c"pei'ienoe I to see  cmp go in. ‘ kttiuzghxzx
21;; experience of country life consisted oi‘ owning a house at orients. Point I-.18-:n8arone_.—

I knew the Boston Post Road fairly well.  I was 3 city girl, borI1"um1‘11'e'd"O'!' / 5

felt exactly as i I were in some dream. It seemed incredible to me that
it me actually me--I, used to the teaming, seething throng; of the metropolis......
here on an Alberta re.nch,mti:n: The greatnb: distances.-——the immense vistas...
t he incredible horizons, mi rages and the phenomenon of 31¢ and earth merged in
one great brooding haze, seemed to set us as it were apa.rt‘from all the world-
Indeed we seemed to be right on the top of the world. There was no limit to
the distances ebout us. I could look out to the east, to the north to tie west
to the south, and all I saw, was waving, ‘rolling p:a.irie, dim brown under flux
widen a. sky  that was always gilded with sun. Indeed even in a. stem
I have seen the sun blazing through. I suppose that is why they call the coiazatry
"Sunny Alberta". It is rightly named.

we had come in the Spring and I snuansxnndac for a time I never tired

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