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Home My WebLink AboutThe Bayfield Bulletin, 1965-02-11, Page 4CILTONE SATIN LATEX How can you save $2 on Canada's finest white paint? Buy this! Inside each giant-sized box of OMO detergent (marked "January White Sale") there's a coupon worth $3.00 oil a gallon of any C-I-L Vknite Paint. Stedtkes It here. MOM McArthur & Reilly Ltd. 36 WEST ST. GODERICH FINK Piumbing & Heating Ltd Electrical Service ED FINK BILL FINK Hensall 38 Clinton 482-7682 AMBULANCE G SERVICE GODERICH 425-7401 Oxygen, First Ald Equipment PORTRAITS -- WEDDINGS COMMERCIAL ifOit" ict4e4 15A Victoria St., Clinton Friday and Saturday 2 to a p.m. Phone 482-9654 after 6 p.m. for appointments. B. R. 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Yes, We Want A Local Permanent Paper! $1.00 for Three Months (;1.25 to U.S.A.) NAME STREET CITY or TOWN PROVINCE or STATE (Please Include Postal Zone if any) .. THANK YOU, ART ELLIOTT, Editor end Publisher THE BAYFIELD BULLETIN. PAGE FOUR-The Bulletin-Feb.11, 1965 BUSHY TALES_ by ART ELLIOTT IT HELPS TO SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE BULLETIN The last day I had in the bush on the Kerr-Addison payroll as an exploration man was the worst. That's not why it was the last, but in one way it was the worst be- cause it was the last. Explaining that line of mumbo-jumbo is, of course, what makes this week's little tale. We were a party of five, including the engineer, a cook and my friends Alex Math- ias and Jack Kirk and yours truly. We had been staking claims in the Windigo Lake area of Northwestern Ontario a hundred or so miles northwest of Pickle Lake. It was getting along to the end of January or the first week of Febru- ary by the time the job wai done. Day by day the temperature had been ranging to about 30 below, which seems to be par for the area that time of year. We had been working in the bush right th- rough the winter and were in top shape as far as physical con- dition goes, but the mental state can be most important too. John Evans, our en- gineer got on the ra- dio set and ordered in a Beaver aircrLft for the next day at noon. Naturally we The Beaver came in as ordered, but the pilot pointed out on the start that the lake on which we had camped was by far too short to allow taking off with a full load. We would have to put on half a load, fly over to a larger lake, unload and go back to the campsite and get the rest, then reload) and take off for the south from an almost unlimited.runway on the bigger lake. We all set to with a will. It just happ- ened to be 42 below that morning, and no day to stand around scratching your head. I went over on the first half load, drag- ged the stuff out of the plane and heaped it on the snow in the middle of the lake. I bummed a couple of cigarettes from the pilot, then sat down on the pile to wait for the next trip.I had worked up a fair temperature with the heaving and tugging and had no misgivings about comfort. The first cigarette was done by the time my feet called attention to themselves. They were not just cold. They were extremely cold and didn't like it the least bit. A 20-mile wind was sif- ting steadily over the lake. One of our favorite expressions hit me dully:"There are no hot dog stands up here 1" By now I was jump- ing up and down and kicking my feet to try and knock some warmth into them.No luck. I cursed my stupidity. The felt insoles had been damp to start with and so had the sox. Violent exercise had made them more so. After what seemed like hours, a black speck in the sky was the plane, at last. By then I was almost whimpering out loud. With the whole lot on the job, it was only minutes before the plane was load- ed. Overloaded is more like it. I was last in, and the one space left was flat on top of the load. When seated, blood will gravitate to the feet. When you're horizontal, it won't. There was no heat in the plane. For an hour and a half those feet kept up an agon- ized tattoo, kicking each other, the plane and the duffle bags. From the air the nondescript shacks of Pickle Lake look- ed like Heaven. Be- fore the prop stopped I was in the pilot shack tearing at the leather laces, then massaging those two tortured reminders: "When your feet are in the bush, keep your head there too". G. B. CLANCY, O.D. — OPTOMETRIST — For Appointment Phone 524-7251 GODERICH DIRECTORY [ WORSELL BROTHERS P LUMBING -- HEATING -- HARDWARE 122 The Square — GODERICH — 524-7952 were all a bit excit- ed at the thought of getting "out" even if it meant only to the village of Pickle Lake which is far from be- ing a glittering met- ropolis. Our normal working gear along with the snowshoes was moose- hide moccasins made by the Crees, which we got from the H.B. store, and for my mo- ney these are the on- ly thing that will be comfortable enough in those conditions. The schedule was set that as soon as break- fast was over, we wou- ld literally break camp, take down the tent and pack all the gear for plane travel. On the last night we sorted out our per- sonal stuff, stuffing the packsacks with all the oddments that get scattered around a crowded tent. We were up quite late and as it came time to turn off the gas lamp, I had not observed the usual ritual of baking my insoles and socks to ensure dryness for the next day. Already my head was "in town" though the body was still in camp. I packed away the moccasins, deciding to revert to the some what more civilized rubber bottom' with leather tope for the trip out.