Eavesdroppings. Bob Green

Eavesdroppings

Eavesdroppings

Stories from Small Towns When Sin Was Fun

BOB GREEN

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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

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 The Great Airship