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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