I Heard the Owl Call My Name is a best-selling 1960s book by Margaret Craven. The book tells the story of a young Anglican vicar named Mark Brian who has not long to live, and also who learns about the meaning of life when he is to be sent to a First Nations parish in British Columbia.
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That you haven’t heard folks tell
How Jimmy Bludso passed in his checks
The night of the Prairie Belle?”
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Which gives the stern’st good night.”
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