I knew nothing about house building; besides,I was at the time living and teaching in Vancouver.

It was in my memory as much as it was in the soil.

Their great spread wings covered the entire ceiling of the attic.

The appalling noise made the Druses drop theirbooty and flee down side alleys.

The forwarding address she left was that ofher mothers home. Evenmy apple trees and lilacs grew spready. Through the great door of the barrack I called, up the dusty echoingcorridors. Tell them if they dont vacate on the dotthey must pay another full month. I loved to lie close under these strong Indian symbols. I pictured the humiliation of being hauled out by the shoes. Out I popped on the tiny balcony, high up on the studio wall, likea cuckoo popping out of a clock.

He was going to show herhow to build houses the English way. She was too deaf, besides hurtingtoo much, to hear me.

House, I haveslept too in your attic, serene as a brooding dove.

Pisani arrived, andmade me laugh, so bewildered was the good soldier by the politicalhubbub. The House of All Sorts seemed to get more goslings and guinea-fowlthan plain chickens.

We returned to the organization of the public services. Now the houses were half of them staring blankly at each other.

First TenantSHE WAS a bride just returned from honeymooning, this first tenantof mine. That second gave me a chance to change my face.

Awfully kind, she would say,Ive been meaning to bring it in these six days. First TenantSHE WAS a bride just returned from honeymooning, this first tenantof mine. Circled by a whirl of dogs I began to live the day. Out I popped on the tiny balcony, high up on the studio wall, likea cuckoo popping out of a clock. Already she was obviously bored with a very disagreeablehusband. Out I popped on the tiny balcony, high up on the studio wall, likea cuckoo popping out of a clock.

Make em go in the three daysnotice they gave you.

In the wall, opposite the windows of my attic, was the room doorwith a tiny landing before it. Mohammed Said, not so brave as hisbrother, was taken in his house, and gaoled in the Town Hall. Make em go in the three daysnotice they gave you.

I consulted the lawyer who admitted that leases were all in favourof the tenant. Punk, the house dog, walked beside me step by step, too sleepy tobounce. Requisitions plagued us while we were yet half-hungry. The doctors told us of fifty-six dead, two hundred dying, seven hundrednot dangerously ill.

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