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Newspaper
Millbrook Reporter
Location
Millbrook, Ontario, Canada
Date
Nov 02, 1893
Page
6
In a rural scene Yates and Renmark camp with the Bartletts and Howard family nearby. Miss Kitty’s restrained mirth and Yates’s sly pastimes collide with Mrs Bartlett’s hints of propriety as the pair plot tent life and foraging while dodging cider and politics of the locals.
Pneumatic shoes with inflated rubber cushions soften each step on hard streets, a device echoing a long ago dream of inflated roads. A man named Ny proposed inflatable pavements after a fall, while laughter meets the notion of inflating roads instead of paving them. Also noted is a curious Washington County friendship between a bantam rooster and a cat, with a crowing trick that scares away the feline.
A young African prince named Eyo, nearly fourteen, arrived in Liverpool aboard the Benguela from Old Calabar. Destitute after his father’s death and a tale of debt-hostage bonds, he was sent to the Congo Institute at Colwyn Bay for training by Alfred Jones of Liverpool. France reportedly has fewer able-bodied men today than thirty years ago.
A bride Norah and I travel with Eveline to a Marchmont estate for a honeymoon. The old mansion looms damp and eerie with no ghostly signs yet, as the two sisters plan quiet nights by a fading four poster bed. They recall their youth, expected ghosts, and a long, tiring drive through beech lanes to reach the sunlit gate.
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