β Scribed by Max Braithwaite
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic β both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canadaβs few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties. It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship and marriage, for those hilarious episodes in Wannego, Saskatchewan, which did much to belie the grimness of the era. There was Maxβs disastrous umpiring of a Ladiesβ Softball game; his writing and directing of a play that generated more drama off-stage than on; the awful problem of the wasps at the outhouse, and much, much, more. The Night We Stole the Mountieβs Car follows Never Sleep Three in a Bed and Why Shoot the Teacher? and completes the story of Maxβs early years. It is also Braithwaite at his vintage best β lusty, thought-provoking, and consistently amusing.
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