tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post6573741812388025000..comments2024-02-27T10:50:27.922+00:00Comments on Books, Mud and Compost. And Horses.: An early horse story: 1908Jane Badgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-74215084396634697002009-06-02T14:40:03.918+01:002009-06-02T14:40:03.918+01:00Thanks, Chicory Cottage (great name - I'd forgotte...Thanks, Chicory Cottage (great name - I'd forgotten I used to grow chicory until I saw your name!) I wonder if, when you got used to it, that sort of dialogue was alright? Like you though, I do find it drudgery. It did give me an insight though into what it must be like to find reading difficult, and to give up because it's such hard work to make sense of things.<br /><br />CMM - thank you for that. I've not heard of the American Automobile Girls series before. At least with a car there is less that can go tragically wrong with it than a horse (not in the sense of an accident I mean, but in the loss of another living being).Jane Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02628233623713926723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-35782416042193897322009-06-02T10:00:28.127+01:002009-06-02T10:00:28.127+01:00Fascinating! The American Automobile Girls series ...Fascinating! The American Automobile Girls series dates from that same period. More liberated than British books of the time, I imagine but I've no idea if they contain such frankness (or horrors!).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8782167599693788794.post-76812162481464739612009-06-02T00:58:31.913+01:002009-06-02T00:58:31.913+01:00using regional dialect for characters was somewhat...using regional dialect for characters was somewhat of the norm for that time period. there are many books written about the southern appalachian folks (published in the late 1800s to 1910s) which include dialect of which you spoke. i, too, find it drudgery to read through.chicory cottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12768284223626614021noreply@blogger.com