Author: Emily Carr

Friends

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

“We have a good house now. We would like you to stay with us when you come. My third stepfather gave me the house when he was dead. He was a good man.” I wrote back, “I would like to stay with you in your house.” Louisa met me…

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Juice

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

It was unbelievably hot. We three women came out of the store each eating a juicy pear. There was ten cents’ express on every pound of freight that came up the Cariboo road. Fruit weighs heavy. Everything came in by mule-train. The first bite into those Bartletts was intoxicating.

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Wash Mary

Published: 1941
Written by Emily Carr
Categories: Klee Wyck

Mary came to wash for Mother every Monday. The wash-house was across the yard from the kitchen door–a long narrow room. The south side of it was of open lattice–when the steam poured through it looked as if the wash-house was on fire. There was a stove in the wash-house.

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