Dippers Author:Barbara Nichol Fragments of a handwritten letter have been discovered. Their author?s name is Margaret, and in the letter she describes her memories of a summer of her girlhood long ago when the dippers came up from the Don River. — It was 1912, and a summer full of odd happenings. The letter tells of Margaret?s first encounter with her father, of her mother?s ... more »worry that she might lose her job as a maid, and of her little sister?s being overtaken by paralysis and disease.
And, of course, there were the dippers moving up from the river to inhabit the neighbourhood ? furry, ungainly, dog-like creatures with leathery wings ? creatures unnerving but not dangerous, yet another fact of life to become adjusted to.« less