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       Eavesdroppings

       Eavesdroppings

       Stories from Small Towns When Sin Was Fun

      BOB GREEN

      Copyright © Bob Green, 2006

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Copy-editor: Michael Carroll

      Design: Jennifer Scott

      Printer: University of Toronto Press

       Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Green, Bob, 1930-

      Eavesdroppings : stories from small towns when sin was fun / Bob Green.

      Stories previously published in the Cambridge reporter.

      ISBN-13: 978-1-55002-629-0

      ISBN-10: 1-55002-629-1

      1. City and town life--Ontario--History--Humour. I. Title. II. Title: Cambridge reporter.

      PS8613.R42E29 2006 971.3'040207 C2006-902684-X

      1 2 3 4 5 10 09 08 07 06

      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

       J. Kirk Howard, President

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      Printed on recycled paper.

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       To Rufus and Morris, who couldn’t care less

       Contents

       23 Isabella Wilson

       24 More About Hespeler

       25 A Scare for Hitler

       26 All Aboard to See Their Majesties

       27 Pop, What’s a Gentile?

       28 The Palace and Jane Russell

       29 The Great School Concerts

       30 My Flying Father

       31 Largo for Little Theatre

       32 Father’s Obsession

       33 The Air Raid Patrol

       34 Victory

       35 How Roger Ruined the War

       36 More About Roger

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