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THE DAILY SHORT STORY

"RELIEF"

Well, we've finally come to it. Relief! the local relief station and see what W. P. A.; The night that we decided could be done about getting larger I was glad that father and mother quantities of things... were dead, Father and mother would

have thrown up their hands in holy It was easy. One day the truck left horror. Both were of solid New Eng--half its contents at the house, cheer. land stack and they had quaint ideas fully telling us there was plenty more about hooing their own rows and pad- where this came from. dling their own canoes. I mean, the During the next two weeks I spent idea of applying for aid would have most of my time down at Elsie's. Every shamed them into their graves. I be morning we'd make something: Pies, lieve they summed it up with the now cakes, jams, bread, salads, sandwiches practically outmoded word "pride."

And all sort of foodstuffs.

every : afternoon we'd sell them. Elsie and 1 I suppose, being descendants of such split the profits fifty-fifty. By the end stock, was what at first caused Ed and of the month. Elsie had made enough me to feel a slight twinge of humilia so that Harry could buy lumber to tion. We got over it, however, and erect a small roadside stand. And things worked out pretty, well in the there was enough left over so he could end.

plant a flower garden. Harry loved flowers. By the middle of the summer Ed had good connections. In less he was selling as many flowers as Elsie than a week a government truck back and I were pies.

ed up to our door and deposited a lot

of things to eat. I couldn't help won- Toward the end of July Ed was offer- dering, and not without twinge of ed a job in one of the local factorles, shame, what the neighbours would but he declined. The job would pay

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think, and then I remembered that this only twenty dollars a week, and what same truck had been a familiar sight with having our rent, taxes," insurance, on our street for a year.

electricity and fuel bills paid by the re- lief station, and me storing by a tidy At any rate, that night we ate sum from the things Elsie and I made heartily, and well, and there was no and sold, there was no sense in going skimping because of fear that to-mor to work in a factory. Besides, Ed was row there would be nothing.

keeping himself busy nagging at the relief authorities to keep us supplied - There is one thing about being on with ingredients. relief: You never know what you're going to have to eat from one week It was no longer necessary for Harry to the next. I mean, you take last to think of applying for aid. He was week. The local rellet station had re- making a neat profit from his flowers ceived a shipment of butter. The truck and in his spare time built an addition deposited sixteen pounds with us. Now to our roadside stand. In August we sixteen pounds is a lot of butter and found it necessary to hire a woman to there is a limit to the ways of disguis- wait on trade vart time. Later that ing it in the shape of appetising dishes. same month Harry bought a light truck It seemed a pity, to think of all that and hired a driver to deliver his flowers butter spoiling, and then I remembered and to transport provisions from our Elsie and Harry Simmons who lived kitchen down to the roadside-stand. down in Hapdale.

Ed says that with a little more |_ Elate and Harry hadn't been doing

so well and had been talking of apply- wrangling he thinks he can get more supplies for us, in which event we'll ing for aid. So that afternoon. caught the bus to Hapdale and called have to hire a helper in Elsie's kitchen. on Elsie, We had a talk and made Then, too, Ed is thinking seriously, of some plans. The next day I went down applying for clothing. If he says, to Hapdale early, bringing with me ten they dump as much clothing on our pounds of butter. Elafe, and I spent doorstep as they did food-stuffs we can the morning making cookies and cakes; open a clothing department at and that afternoon we set up a table roadside stand. on the lawn and put our things on dis- play

The Simmons place is on a main road and it wasn't long before passing motorists, bogan, to stop and buy some of our home-cooked pastry. Both Elsie and I; Iwill say, are good cook and every person, who sampled a cookie or plece of cake made a purchase! By four o'clock we were sold out

The next

the truck left Ex me a half bushel of potatoes) beater carrots, peady celery, and onions. Now Ed and for vegetable

our

Yes, it's all working out very well. I feel sure father and mother would have been proud of how we handled things. Of course they might have

a little pasaled, too.. They might ave wondered who was paying for the ald" we were receiving but, of course,

even think about. that's silly.

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