Breakthroughs (2006)
“Arthur McGregor complained to his wife over a supper plate of fried chicken and fried potatoes.
“More Yankee lies, I expect,” Maude answered. “They don’t let any of the truth get loose. Remember how many times their papers have said Toronto has fallen, or Paris to the Germans?”
“I don’t think it’s like that this time,” McGregor said. “Those other stories, you could tell they were made up. What we hear now—that Nashville place getting knocked to bits, and the Americans pushing ahead on the borde...r farther east…those are the kinds of things that really do happen in a war. They’re the kinds of things you have to believe when you read them.”
“But if you do believe them, it means we’re losing the war,” his daughter Julia said.
“It means our allies are in trouble, anyhow,” McGregor said gravely. He bit at the inside of his lower lip before going on, “I don’t think we’re doing any too well here in Canada, either. You can hardly hear the cannon fire up north toward Winnipeg these days.”MoreLess
“More Yankee lies, I expect,” Maude answered. “They don’t let any of the truth get loose. Remember how many times their papers have said Toronto has fallen, or Paris to the Germans?”
“I don’t think it’s like that this time,” McGregor said. “Those other stories, you could tell they were made up. What we hear now—that Nashville place getting knocked to bits, and the Americans pushing ahead on the borde...r farther east…those are the kinds of things that really do happen in a war. They’re the kinds of things you have to believe when you read them.”
“But if you do believe them, it means we’re losing the war,” his daughter Julia said.
“It means our allies are in trouble, anyhow,” McGregor said gravely. He bit at the inside of his lower lip before going on, “I don’t think we’re doing any too well here in Canada, either. You can hardly hear the cannon fire up north toward Winnipeg these days.”MoreLess
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