Askatoon

• “Sez I to meself, Mr. Burlingame, y'r anner, the minute I first saw him, sez I, 'Askatoon's no safe place for me.”

  Wild Youth, Volume 1.

• “That was why Kitty Tynan had always a good background; for what her bright colouring would have been in the midst of gaudy, cheap chintzes and "Axminsters," such as abounded in Askatoon, is better left to the imagination.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “If he had had less reverence for his wife, less of that obvious prostration of soul, he probably would never have come to Askatoon.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “By accident, however, his business made it necessary for him to be much in Askatoon at the moment, and it was a propitious time for the growth of the finer feelings.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “Sensitive souls, however, are not so many as to crowd each other unduly in this world, and they were not more numerous in Askatoon than elsewhere.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “Kitty Tynan's face had a curious look, for there was a club in Askatoon, and it was said that all the "sports" assembled there.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “In Askatoon people gave Mrs. Tynan a better place socially because of her pension than they would have done if she had earned double the money which the pension brought her.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “Crozier would remain exactly the same; but would not Crozier be whisked away out of Askatoon to a new fate, reconciled to being a receiver of his wife's bounty.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “Mrs. Crozier stating the time of her expected arrival at Askatoon.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

• “September saw the vast prairie spaces around Askatoon shorn and shrivelled of its glory of ripened grain, but with a new life come into the air-sweet, stinging, vibrant life, which had the suggestion of nature recreating her vitality, inflaming herself with Edenic strength, a battery charging itself, to charge the world in turn with force and energy.”

  You Never Know Your Luck; being the story of a matrimonial deserter. Volume 2.

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