Anecdotes and Updates 1882-1982 - Virden Centennial ... - Manitobia

lettuce and onions. I don't think anyone of you know what it is toenjoy a meal thoroughly. We have no chairs or table, so, like theancient Romans, we recline. Our meal is earned, which very fewof our old country meals were ... t\..().~..J .~~{), .~r~ JyG~~ i----y(;.c.,.":', ~)~.. !Nichols' original sketch of a sod house.~~rt}f" . ...,'.:-' .;. ';-hThis is a healthy country. I have slept for nights in the openprairie with no company but mosquitoes, the oxen and probably abear, and have got up with dew drops on my hair, and none theworse for it. Snakes are plentiful, but harmless.I have been off work for more than a week after a fall from ahorse. I sit or lie in the tent whilst Lill is busy with the frying pan.Like the noble red man, who is never guilty of working, he lets hissquaw carry everything while he walks gracefully alongside her.He allows her to set up the wigwam, and sits nobly by, smoking.Have had to stop plowing because the dryness of the sodwould pull the plow to pieces so shall work on the house. Our sadhouse will have to do until we can afford a "frame" house - builtof sawn wood. The walls are two feet thick, dusty at times but verywarm.Our address is now:T. W. Nichols1612 XXVIc/o Cook & Co.Virden, Manitoba, CanadaWe have railway and telegraph communication right up to27