IL, took us some time to accustom ourselves to Canadian conditions, The number and speed of the cars were amazing. We stood on the kerb like country bumping, dazzled and dumbfounded, afraid to cross the street. We revelled in the cheap Dbutier and oranges. The thirty pages of the newspapers seemed almost Wicked, also the reckless, use of paper cups and paper table napkins.
instinctively said to the shopkeepers, "Don't wrap it, up," and held out my shopping bog, while they stared at me in amazement.
'We, never felt that we were not wanted, People stopped us in the street and asked why more English children were not coming over. "We fare expecting thousands," they said "and we are gelting so very' few." 'The daily help, the, University gardeners (we were living on "the campus"), the telegraph boys, and the iceman alltold- me about' their relations in England, or Scotland, One gardener, who came from Mar chester, brought his wife and smi daughter, Patricia, to call on us Sunday to talk about England and to play with English children, There great pride in Toronto in British ancestry. It is Canada's war as well as Britain's, and the Canadians are helping to win it in other ways besides entertaining war. guests, Canada may seem peaceful at first sight, but even the quiet University tings with military commands and the tramp of feet is heard as men In shirt sleeves dill in the summer
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