AUNTIE KING REMEMBERED

By Rena Perry
To all of us in the countryside she was Auntie King, but to Mrs. Charles Brodie, she was mother. [Auntie King was Mrs. Olive Ann King.]

She introduced us to nursery rhymes, stories and songs and always had a heap of information about anything we asked.

While sitting or lying on the ground at her feet, she helped us find the big and little dippers.  She taught us Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star and told us when seeing a falling star to think of a good friend and you would always think of that person when seeing a falling star, which proved to be true.

While waiting for one of the young boys to come home from a visit with one of the neighbors, his mother was relieved when she had us put our head down to the road and listen for the sounds of the horse’s hooves.  Raising our heads, we would see him coming up over the hill in the bright moonlight.