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and the crop was going in. zziazznsxxinaaiscax It was s great sight to see the es:-th turned. over and the rich black loamy soil revealed. Part of the land. was

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’ I , _.4!;',~’,./ ,v1rg'1n soil and the plows were turning it over for the first time. 5? “=--- Q V H j LI enoountered. a new type of men .....-the overal men.’ 1“'au'¢zt!:c1-me-b--

at first (adjust myself \to. familiarity with I }nd._8.lWa.ys had socialiatic

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tendencies of 9. sort?‘ 'I1~.a‘.’c,,-is ssyz dee jlcnegv I .

all men were equal I could. not fathom hn

the eternal injustioeof a law that klptx. hoisted some above the shoulders of 1213 world. and ground. the others. down to she earth. 1 have never been shia-to ‘)o“reeonol1ed. to this. So 11; was not itfizncitmnc because of feeling than tlnemorisnen that anfirst I was oonmseo and even a bit irrioated. I was the high boss's Wife, of oourseovhnt 'lei».-me...4'.o1~1-you, in a ranching country like Alberta, {flare is no oaste. &::x:ciEiux1z:i:!! Your "hands" are as good. as you , are; your "cook" 13 in your social set ---if there is such a. thing as "set".. ‘ I don't say that 5 found. umnitiga/ced joyiin sitting down thrill

W at 9. table where eight or ten men, soiled ovezals noisily

fed. ' At this time, as were building, we had. no separate cook-house ‘for the

men and. they 08-me to the house for their meals. Gradyally however,

the strangest sort of feeling

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for these men. nnzchalxxmixuhixl oan still honestly say it.o_-_-V- they were he.aD and slnuldora on ,fiux1h:kt1x3n_1_ ¢_ _ ill} 1 dcnszln K /V 4 _,___ . , , , , .\ \ / V

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ngl. 1_(saw r their skins, I loo’ked--in their , . ;~.5~ V E ‘I T L‘ 5/ ” ;’r’.4«’ K‘ ,4.

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" we linear _e1t/e_1;hg.t ie 1200 prone to Judge a. man by the out of his ooa. , A».

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hearts, l::i.1ci~.:t{1:k.v“M‘ V

the angle of his hat, the oresse down the front of his pants--note I use the ( homely word. pants. We don't say trouswra on séranohl But on fincttnnt 1 an Alnerta ranch, amnctux a. man’: clothes counts fornough 1:. True, on a

our men (and we too)wou1c1 doll up in our best, and I lad. many a. good.

interior laugh over the results achieved by the "fellows" riding off a calling

or a. oou:-ting. we lad. one boy who used. axael grease on his hair. It was a sight