Clementius Stupnagel di Montefalcone: the saga of a smart artist (smartast)

Chapter 11

Due to CSM’s father’s difficulties with the English language, he decides to move, with his son, to Canada, in fact to Jasper in the province of Alberta.

This place is like a frontier town,

with a lot of horses and dogs that look like wolves, a setting that would have pleased Jack London. Pennyless as usual, CSM’s father has no choice but to live outside of « town », in a shack on the Athabasca riverside.

CSM travels to school (Boker Z. Wash Junior High School) each day, drawn by a husky (he names « GoodBoy ») that he met in the forest.

There he again turns out to be an average student with above-average results in art, which fact enables him to expose one of his paintings of a husky at the Young Art exhibit in the school lobby.