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Needles, Dan.
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Needles, Dan.
Farmers -- Ontario -- Biography.
Farmers -- Ontario -- Humor.
Farm life -- Ontario -- Biography.
Farm life -- Ontario -- Humor.
Farms, Small -- Ontario -- Anecdotes.
Farms, Small -- Ontario -- Humor.
Country life -- Ontario -- Biography.
Country life -- Ontario -- Humor.
Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Needles, Dan.
Needles, Dan.
Farmers -- Ontario -- Biography.
Farmers -- Ontario -- Humor.
Farm life -- Ontario -- Biography.
Farm life -- Ontario -- Humor.
Farms, Small -- Ontario -- Anecdotes.
Farms, Small -- Ontario -- Humor.
Country life -- Ontario -- Biography.
Country life -- Ontario -- Humor.
Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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True confessions from the ninth concession / Dan Needles.
by
Needles, Dan.
Douglas & McIntyre, 2017.
Call #:
640 N375t
Subjects
Needles, Dan.
Farmers
--
Ontario
--
Biography.
Farmers
--
Ontario
--
Humor
.
Farm life
--
Ontario
--
Biography.
Farm life
--
Ontario
--
Humor
.
Farms
,
Small
--
Ontario
--
Anecdotes.
Farms
,
Small
--
Ontario
--
Humor
.
Country life
--
Ontario
--
Biography.
Country life
--
Ontario
--
Humor
.
Authors, Canadian
--
20th century
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9781771621694 (pbk.)
Description:
230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
A funny and affectionate chronicle of rural Canadian life written by a winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Author and playwright Dan Needles has long delighted readers and audiences alike with his insightful and laugh-out-loud perspective on small-town life, published in such books as Wingfield's World (2011), Wingfield's Hope (2005), With Axe and Flask (2002) and Letters From Wingfield Farm (1988). In 1988, Needles and his wife left the city to start a family in a country community located two hours north of Toronto. Together they stocked their farm with sheep, cattle, chickens, pigs and, eventually, four children. Needles' charming chronicle unfolds in essays dated from 1997 to 2016, offering homespun advice for successful country living - like whether to wave from the elbow or to merely raise one finger from the steering wheel when passing a neighbour in the car. He cautions on rural superstitions, such as when his neighbour hesitated before selling him weaner pigs because every time he does the wife of the farmer who's buying them becomes pregnant - which turned out to be true. Here too is the tale of an unlikely friendship between a "borderline" collie ("he's never bitten anything in his life and the sheep are catching on") and an odd duck named Ferdinand, as well as other hilarious stories involving an assortment of farm animals, including the weapon of choice to properly dispatch a rooster-gone-bad; the risks of giving a name to a potential Sunday dinner entrée; and how to outsmart a free-range pig. With his witty insight, Needles shares the art of neighbouring in the country - a place made for visits, and "where a figure walking across your field is more of a reason to put the kettle on than to call the police." A sesquicentennial crop of antics and aphorisms by Canada's funniest farmer - one that presents a wonderful escape for world-weary city dwellers, and affirmative reading for anyone who is from, or has moved to, rural Canada.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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