Your Smile for Today:

Found on a nineteen-forties bookplate:

"This Book is from the Hoard of Dr. Alex Turnbull.

Read Thoughtfully. Handle Carefully. Return Promptly."

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Background graphics: Appropriately, a squirrel reading a book under a chestnut tree.

Dr. Alex Turnbull is our uncle. He served overseas as a doctor and later in London, Ontario. He is buried in the little church cemetery in East Seneca, Haldimand, Ontario, with his wife, Molly.

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The book? HAMEWITH and other Poems by Scottish poet, Charles Murray. Constable and Company Ltd., London, first published 1929. Reprinted 1944 & 1948.