The Same Language – a short story inside the Good Housekeeping magazine date November 1953.
The first paragraph:
“The one thing I mind about this deal is being called another Grandma Moses. Not that I’ve got anything against Grandma Moses, but I happen to be six-feet-four and very male. I took up painting because a couple of years after the war I bought a mountian up in the Bershires from which on a clear day you can ser Vermont, Massachuetts, and New York. This got me. After I finished building a shack on top of the mountain, I bought some turps and linseed oil, and pretty soon I was painting as much as I was fishing. Winters I used to go down and work in a faactory, but I liked being along best, a bug I caught when shrapnel put me in a hospital for two years after the war.”
This story is quite long and will be included in the magazine anthology to be published sometime in the next six months. If you find another magazine story by Dorothy Gilman Butters somewhere that we do not already have listed please lets us know where by using the CONTACT us form.
