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This book covers the period of Josey's boyhood and early teenage years and has been based on the author's own experiences, only the names have been changed. This is to give the reader the author's recollection of life during the Great Depression and the Second World War.
Raymond Boyd Dunn
Raymond Boyd Dunn is a "born and bred" third generation Australian. After his retirement Raymond Boyd became a grey nomad, and, with his wife, spent some time touring this vast country of Australia. He was born in the small Burnett Valley town of Monto, Queensland, and for his entire life has answered to the name of 'Boyd'. Apart from his travels he has lived all of his life in Queensland, and after satisfying his thirst for seeing first hand this wonderful country we live in, settled on the Sunshine Coast to spend his remaining years in the sunshine near the beach.He commenced his working life as a Bank Officer and resigned after thirteen years to become self-employed. At various stages he has owned a Corner Store, a small Supermarket Chain, a Butchery, a Milk Run, a Printery and a Cattle and Grain Farm. He has been involved, in various capacities, in Cricket and Tennis Clubs; Jaycees, Lions and Rotary Clubs and Aero Clubs. He was a Cricketer, played tennis, tried to play golf, and was a keen long distance runner.Upon taking a well-earned retirement he wrote his unpublished autobiography, which was for distribution among his family of six children and numerous grand-children. A visit to Cooktown, where he learnt of the Palmer River Gold Rush, was the incentive to keep writing and produce his first novel 'Palmer Gold' He then settled down to write novels, producing two more books to complete a Trilogy...'An Australian Ranch' and "Carly and Sam...Will and Effie'. There followed numerous short stories, and other novels: 'Lord of the Manor in Australia', and 'The Vintage Years'. He continues to write whilst enjoying life in the sunshine on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
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Josey - Raymond Boyd Dunn
Josey
A Boy's Experience of the Great Depression and a World War
by Raymond Boyd Dunn
Copyright 2013 Raymond Dunn
Smashwords Edition
Because this book is classified as Australiana
genre, the author has checked all spelling with the Heinemann Australian Dictionary.
This book covers the period of Josey's boyhood and early teenage years and has been based on the author's own experiences, only the names have been changed. This is to give the reader the author's recollection of life during the Great Depression and the Second World War. In the very early years, there have been some omissions, and a few small variations.
Chapter 1
Joseph Henry Dalrymple was a child of the Great Depression, born in the small country town of Kapaldo. For all of his life he would answer to the name of Josey.
To describe Kapaldo as a town would be stretching the imagination to its outermost limits. It was actually a railway siding to service the needs of the farming and grazing communities of the district fifteen or so miles from the burgeoning town of Monto in the Upper Burnett Valley in Queensland. The only building, apart from the tiny waiting shed and the larger goods shed, was the station house: a typical railway worker's home built on high blocks in the Queenslander style.
It was in this house that Josey was born with the aid of a visiting midwife. His father was a fettler, charged with the upkeep of the railway line between Kapaldo and the next siding to the south, Selene. His mother was the Postmistress, whose office was the front room of the railway house. A public phone booth stood just outside on the veranda ─ it was seldom used by the public.
His parents, Arthur and Jezzie, were married in Monto two years before Josey's birth.
Times were hard during the years of world-wide depression, and Arthur had been fortunate to have an income from timber cutting and fencing. He was a hardworking and temperate man, who managed to save money while others less fortunate than he were struggling to survive in the financial gloom of the period. At the time of his engagement to Jezzie, he was successful in securing a steady job in Queensland Railways, as a fettler. With assured employment in a time of monetary hardship, they were married and moved directly to his appointment at Kapaldo, without the luxury of a honeymoon.
Before he could claim her as his bride, Arthur's courtship of Jezzie was not without its problems. At first, her father, a carpenter in Monto, did not approve of Arthur; in fact, quite the opposite! He was very protective of Jezzie, and would not let her venture away from home without a suitable chaperone. Arthur's visits to her home were always made when the father was not there. One of the other siblings in the family would take lookout duties on the front veranda, and when the father was observed approaching the home, discretion being the better plan, Arthur would hasten down the back steps and disappear from view. The breakthrough for Arthur came at a social dance in Monto.
On the day of the social he was erecting a fence for a farmer a few miles out of town. After a wash up in the creek, and after changing into his clean town clothes, he left his camp and rode his bicycle in to the dance. As soon as he paid the entrance fee, he went straight across to Jezzie, who was sitting with some friends against the wall. Jezzie had already promised the next dance to someone else. Despite her father's Draconian attitude towards her fraternising with the local young men, she was very popular, and was always a favourite at the local dances where he could not object to his daughter dancing with them. She promised Arthur the dance after the next one. It was a 'Chocolate Waltz', a dance in which the hall was divided into four sections, each section labelled with a suit of cards, eg. Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs and Spades, and couples were eliminated through the cutting of a pack of cards.
When the Chocolate Waltz was announced, Jezzie was approached by a young carpenter, an employee of her father, and she refused gracefully, explaining that she promised it to Arthur. The young man was not amused at being rejected; he believed she should have accepted his invitation. Because he worked for her father he was under the misapprehension that he should have prior rights for her favour. To add further fuel to the young man's indignation, Arthur and Jezzie were the last ones left after the final cut of the cards, and won the box of chocolates.
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