Smokey and Other Stories
by Ron Bailey
Ron has been a woodsman, mechanic, teacher, farmer, college lecturer and professor who began work at the age of 15 and continued until retiring at the age of 75.
Smokey and other stories is another collection of events that occurred in the life of Ron Bailey who was raised in Hough Lake, Ontario.
After leaving that area in his late teens, he returned some twenty years later with his wife Anne and two children. Today they live in New Liskeard, Ontario but they still have fond memories of rural life.
His other books I'd Do Most Of It Againand Hough Lake and Beyond add to his story.
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ISBN: 978-1-998656-10-3 | WMPub#1356 | 6" x 9"
110 pages; 15 photos; trade paperback | $14.95
Table of Contents
3 Dedication
3 Acknowledgments
7 Smokey
12 The Errant Ox
16 Finding Santa’s Stash
19 The Old Indian Trail
24 The Devil’s Punchbowl
27 Dynamite
30 “Tha' He Is”
32 The Camp Gagetown Pour
34 Whipper Billy Watson
38 The Angry Priest
41 Watch For Moose
44 The Orange Cat
49 The Accident
52 The Auracanas
55 Hitting The Pipeline at Duke’s
60 Bees
64 Basil’s Hog
66 Time-Shares In Florida
69 Lady Di
73 The Frightened Bull
76 The Attack of The Subaru
78 ‘O’ Danny Boy
81 Life
86 The Empty Center Pews
89 Salmon
93 Tobacco
97 Leave Your Grief Behind
100 Afterword