Is That You, Ruthie? Publisher / Batsford McDonald’s

McDonald’s

to the Lake District

carbohydrates and proteins

and features original sketches and drawings – many of which are published here for the first time

Is That You, Ruthie? Publisher / Batsford McDonald’sIs that you ? Matrons voice would ring out across the dormitory. In that pause sixty little girls would stop in their tracks, waiting to hear who was in trouble. All too often the name called out would be that of the high spirited dormitory girl Ruthie. In the Depression years, Queenslands notorious Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission became home to four year old Ruth until her late teens when she was sent out to serve as a domestic on a station homestead.