The Queen of Paradise's Garden: A traditional Newfoundland tale

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, not in your time, indeed not in my time, but in olden times, when quart bottles held half a gallon and houses were papered with pancakes and pigs run about with forks stuck in their backs seeing who wanted a slice o' ham, there were two old people and they never had no children, and they figured they were too old to ever have any.

So begins The Queen of Paradise's Garden, a wonderful adaptation of a traditional Newfoundland tale, and the first i...