13/16 They said he died writing a telegram to our Lord on the wall of his room. This Dave Cowan, he argued about religion with the Reverend Mallet right up in the post office one day. He'll argue about anything! He's audacious!" "But the father was all right till he had the fall ?" asked Harvey D."I mean he was healthy and all that ?" "Oh, healthy enough--big, strong old codger. He used to say he could cradle four acres of grain in a day when he was a boy on a farm, or split and lay up three hundred and fifty rails. |