D

At Blossom End Railroad Station, 22­year­old Stanley Vine sat, waiting for his new employer.

The

surrounding green fields were so unlike the muddy

landscape of war­torn France.

After four horrible years

as an army private fighting in Europe,

Stanley had

returned to England in February 1946. Armed now with

some savings

and

with

no

prospects

for

a job

in England, he answered a newspaper ad for farm help in Canada. Two months later he was on his way.

When the old car rumbled toward the tiny station, Stanley rose to his feet, trying to make the most of his five foot and four inches frame. The farmer, Alphonse Lapine, shook his head and complained,

“You're a skinny thing.” On the way to his dairy farm, Alphonse explained that he had a wife and seven kids. “Money's light. You'll get room and board. You'll get up at dawn for milking, and then help me around the farm until evening milking

time

again.

Ten

dollars

a

week. Sundays off.” Stanley nodded. He had never been on a farm before, but he took the job.

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