Canadian Tigers

I'd hate to give you the impression the weather was always ideal for hill walking in South West Scotland. I could control it in Best in Show but n real life it was unpredictable. On days when even Rob and I didn't want to go out, his mother read to us in front of the fire, like that picture of Walterr Raleigh. She read from a big volume called The Settlers in Canada, which was much like the Swiss Family Robinson, only in the snow. After hearing about the family adventures and the bravery of the boys in the family, Rob and I were naturally going to go to Canada. The same thing happened when we discovered a photo of an uncle of his with his foot on the head of a tiger he had shot in India while with the Forestry Commision. The tiger had, of course, been eating locals at an alarming rate until Rob's uncle took it on. After seeing the photo, we decided we would go to India and save people from man-eating tigers. In the end, he joined the railway and I went down the pit!

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