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By Janie M. Bryant

Dear Friends

Kindly please read this and then send this message to your relatives, friends, and business associates in South Africa and overseas.

Wild West Adventures in the Great African Bush

by David Robert Dalton (with contributions by Mike, Trevor & Garth Dalton)

Embark on Wild West Adventures in the Great African Bush with author David Robert Dalton, who takes you to the African bush in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Inspired by his and his brothers fond memories of growing up in the little copper mining town of Messina (now called Musina) in South Africa, with written contributions from his three elder brothers, he pens a wacky, side-splitting tale of his adventures growing up in the little bushveld town.

Set in the African bushveld (a.k.a. the Great Arizona Desert), the three elder Dalton cowpokes are members of a gang dubbed the Messina Dalton Gang, after the infamous Wild West Dalton Gang, who roar around on their two-wheeler steeds and talk in tough Western jargon. The youngest Dalton cowpoke, six-year-old, David, calls himself Gunslinger and his main ambition in life is to become a recognized member of the gang. Together with his little African Pawnee sidekick-hombre, Tokoloshie-Two-Feathers, and his three-legged Jack Russell dog, Jock, Gunslinger tries hard to impress, but continually messes up. The story, told in a light-hearted tongue-in-cheek fashion, as told through the fertile imagination of a six-year-old boy, but is written for adults.

Theres a delightful array of wacky small-town characters that help the story come alive, making you feel part of it. Theres the delicious Danish Tart, who runs the Mine Rec Club bar, Speedy, the towns beefy Harley-riding policeman, Paparazzo, the long-nosed Italian crime reporter, Frank&Earnest (the same person!), the hip Holy father, the disapproving Dominee, Mrs Bogey, the Mine Managers snooty wife, and the gangs all-suffering parents, the Old Man and Daisy-Anne, who all contribute to the hilarity! Dredging up ones own childhood memories, its a wonderful nostalgic tale to touch the hearts of all ages!

Its so darned funny; itll have you laughing out loud! A charming and endearing must-read story for all ages! I simple loved it! Brenda George, author of Falling Leaves and Mountain Ashes.

I warmed to this delightful and endearing book a unique African TO-KILL-A-MOCKINGBIRD look into the mind of a child of those nostalgic times. Gloria Keverne, international bestselling author of A Man Cannot Cry and Broken Arrow.

Available in EBook and paperback format, see:

http://www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk or http://www.xlibris.com;

http://www.amazon.co.uk or http://www.amazon.com or www.bushwhackedbooks.co.za

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Regards and best wishes,

Brenda George

Brenda George Literary Agency

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 10, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477118429

Janie M. Bryant

I had so many people say to me, You should write a book. I said to myself, Write a book? I would not know how to start writing a book. So I thought about it, and I said to myself that I was going to try it. In my dream one night the Lord showed me this book. It was so pretty and colorful, so from that, I started writing. Every night something would come to me to write about. I then gathered what I saw in my dreams and started to write about it. I knew that one day I would get marriage but I never thought that I would have 13 kids my last didnt live but the 12 one that live. I am so proud of them. I never had not one sleepy night. They always made me proud. I love them all. My house is full of trophies, medals, plates and ribbons.

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HUSBANDS AND WIVES

I want to say to husbands and wives, be good to each other. Husbands, put nobody over your wives, not even your kids. The same goes for the wives because your children are not going to be with you always. They are going to get married and move on with their families, and who are going to be left together? Mom and Dad. So you need to be good to each other. And a lot of times, if that son got a good wife or if that daughter got a good husband either, or they would not let them come and see you, that is something to think about. So if you are not treating one another well, start treating each other well because you might be left alone. If you get sick, you may not have anybody to hand you a glass of water, so don’t put anybody over your wife or husband. We are not going to stay young and strong all the time. We’re going to get old, and along with age, we’re going to get sick. None of us are put here to stay forever, so be good to your wife or husband.

The Bible says love your mother and father and love your wife. You and your wife are one. Don’t forget, as a man, your want is outside, and they always say the wife can do what she wants inside the house. Some men want to take over both inside and outside, but it is not so. If the wife asks her husband to help her, that is a different story. Honey, move the couch or the TV or hang some blinds. Nothing’s wrong with that ‘cause you are supposed to be her helpmate, not take over or do things over her head. You have to concrity her and get her okay. When my husband and I are together, he never comes in the house telling me how to fix any room in the house. He would say, Oh, that look nice the way you got. I never had to work. I stayed home and took care of the kids and the house. I want to say to husbands, if your wife is not working, it’s her place to take care of the house and kids. Don’t get me wrong; you can help when you get home. But if she has a job like you, both of you have the job to take care of the kids and the house.

When you both get in from work, while she is making dinner, you, the father, can help with homework or give the kids a bath. After they have eaten and gone to bed, it is your time to get yourself together, cuddle up. Watch a movie or just talk about what happened in your job. Next morning, go through the same routine, getting them out to school or babysitting. It’s not a one-woman or one-man job; it’s a both-of-you job. When you work together, it makes the job better and easy. A lot of times, mothers or fathers get it in their minds that it’s Friday night, I am going out for a little while. That is the wrong thought to have in your mind. If you are going out, both of you, together, should go out and enjoy yourselves and go back home to the kids. Because going out alone is not a good thing. You get out there and start hugging and touching another woman or man, it always leads to other things. And after a while you separate or get a divorce. And that’s not good because you know who it hurts—the children and yourself, but more so the kids.

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My husband and I were always together, took trips together, and did a lot together.

This is a picture of my three older sons and their families. I have eight boys. Three of them went in the service, one girl was in the navy, two boys in the army, and one in the air force. He served for eight years, and he got out.

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At 26, he decided to go back to the Air Force Reserve to make up his twenty years. I said to him, Is that what you want to do right now? He said, Yes I be doing what I was doing when I went in before. Preparing the guys to go overseas.

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My son Douglas in his Air Force uniform

MY GRANDDAUGHTER

STEPHANIE

They had a cotillion at the ConCen in Atlantic City. She wanted to be in it; she got my permission to be in it. They had to make a scrapbook; they had to attend all the meetings and also sell tickets. That was how they were going to be judged. They had to have a chaperone to escort them and also a sponsor. They had to have their father or mother or, if they weren’t around, uncle or aunt or grandmother.

They also had to have a long gown and long gloves. They had to have a big slip so their gown would flare out. I had her gown made; it cost $200. It was a pretty gown. My granddaughter told the dressmaker how she wanted it; she wanted her to put roses all over the shoulder. The dressmaker made these roses and put them on the dress. Even the head lady that was giving