Quote #6

The Lord said 'Let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born.

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  1. Presently I shall be introduced as 'this venerable old gentleman' and the axe will fall when they raise me to the degree of 'grand old man'…
  2. With the thermometer at 30 below zero and the wind behind him, a man walking on Main Street in Winnipeg knows which side of him is which.
  3. My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.
  4. Of course, Pupkin would never have thought of considering himself on an intellectual par with Mallory Tompkins. That would have been ridicu…
  5. The rushing of his spirit from its prison-house was as rapid as a hunted cat passing over a garden fence.
  6. Many of my friends are under the impression that I write these humorous nothings in idle moments when the wearied brain is unable to perfor…
  7. You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might b…
  8. A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

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