Nick Ward - Narrative - The Great Election in Missinaba County.
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
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don't ask me what election it waas, whether Dominion or provincial or imperial or universal, for I scarcely know it must, of course, of being going on in other parts of the country as well. But I saw it all from Miss a knob, a county which, with the town of Mariposa Waas, of course, the storm center and focus point of the whole term. I only know that it was a huge election that on it turned issues of the most tremendous importance, such as whether or not Mariposa should become part of the United States and whether the flag that had waved over the schoolhouse that, too, comes a township for 10 centuries should be trampled under the hoof of an alien invader, and whether Britain should be slaves on whether Canadians should be Britain's. Whether the farming class would prove themselves Canadians and tremendous questions of that kind. And there was such a roar in atonement to it, and such a waving of flags and beating of drums and flaring of torch lights that such parts of the election is may have been going on elsewhere than in Miss Anoma County must have been quite unimportant and didn't really matter. Now that it is all over, we could look back at it without heat or passion. We can see it's plain enough now. But in the great election, Canada saved the British empire and that Miss A. Nava saved Canada and that the vote of the third concession of two comes a township saved miss a knob, a county, and that those of us who carried the third concession well, there's no need to push it further. We prefer to be modest about it. If we still speak of it, it is only quietly and simply, and not more than three or four times a day.