The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn Quotes

“And gutsy. That's the worst of these sneaky Canadians. You think they're pushovers, then the next thing you know they're all over you like ants at a picnic.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

“I've been thinking she'll probably demand mincemeat tarts, though, and I haven't a speck of mincemeat in the house. You wouldn't care to run to the grocery store for me, I don't suppose? Otherwise I wouldn't have a thing to give her for breakfast except bacon and eggs and fried bread and fried tomatoes and maybe some baked beans on toast and a piece of pineapple custard pie and a few cookies and things.”
― Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn

“One might think a person who's written seventy-three amalgamations of ill-chosen verbiage which are loosely referred to as books would know how to spell words of one syllable by now”
― Charlotte MacLeod, The Grub-and-Stakers Spin a Yarn: Grub-and-Stakers Series, Book 4