HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1939-02-02, Page 3"a: tut Loans
Total $14,641,949
Dt ring.1938 Advances To That
Amount Were Made to`Hosne
• Owners •ia Canada
•
National Housing Act.:.loans dur-
ing 1938 were almost double those
• of the previous'year; amounting to
$1.4,041,949, compared with'
195,`ascording to a.statenien-t issued
by Finance Minister Denning:
Bast fear's total included 'adv.a:nc= .'
es made under.•••the Dominion hens-
Act, which, was • in operation
• Awn. October,: 1935, tofIJu]y, 31 last,
and under the National 'H,ousjjng ..
Act, which,s:ipeitsei-ed the Domin- ,
ion flousi•ng-Act last August.
Used in 293 '.Corrrrnunittes
-Loans peovidirrg• housing aeco'm=
••.moda.titn for 4,136 fatalities,. were an, -
'proved during'.•'the' .twe1"ve=marttli
.period, compared with 1,961.. in.,the
• Year .1937.', The . average •loan per'''
fahlily-.unit , teas. $3,533, "co:1)i.Pareel
$4,352•A•1937. 7,-
1)nri'ng the year loans,' Were. a.p- -
;. proved: in 124; additional: communi- ••
ties where' -previously 'there, had
• 'been no Hoifsing Act loans ''Com-
" niunities ih' w-hich loans have'be:en
made now total g93. ,
'FWEED.MILITARY
REEFER
• Ann Rutherford'chooSes •a tweed mil-
itary reefer for ni'ppy days. Double-
breasted, navy velvet !stallions the
button trimand,turned-flown on •collar.
Pill -box blue with tri -colored trim in
tones of red and navy accessories•aro
,'notes of interest. .
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V ee're-Battening
Too Much Reserve
•- • Physical 'And Nervous Energy ,
Needed For Future Years Is
Being.. Used In Worrying
About Today's •Unimportant
Details. • •
• A newspaper' feature in which •
the inquiring'• reporter asks •vari-
ous people of all walks of life arbout
their ideas and. thoughts recently
••eas.ked-the question: "What worried
you most?'• The answers frofn
•01• eat ;1usaa ;b1-2 r nas�r.:-ef
lie"anq,-.tee. �naeiue... �.....n� �.,sa•etirern <,;
amused - at their worries, showed
that„often the moat. ufriln.poi'tant '
things were causing 'theist daily
worry. -•
In other words; these' normal, in- :
telligen . people were worrying —
using up their,m
stored„
- nervous, en -
erg ”about things that were ost-
ly uliinrpol'tant.
, Store Up .Nervous Forces •
:Most visitors to Great , Britain
notice. a'.calmer, "smoother". ex-
.pressioli -on the faces there, ,which
I haie always attributed to their
ha.iit , of ,eating more meals (not
mare' food) than those in the Unit-
ed Mates -or' Canada. "I. felt that.
the•"c'ontented" expression was clue
to. a':sa:istled' or,c'(rnfented stomach
II'owcver,. William .1iu les_ teils its in
,Read, is Digest. "that "the: fuller
countenances. of' the British people
betoken a. better 'scheme of. life'
'--they suggest ,stores of reserved
nervous force to- fall .back upon, if '
the: 'oheasion ,should- require it:"
ft ie. only acute traae that iii these:
(lays all of u•e must be'"ep dii. our '
toes" in tiro battle• of', life, but.
there, i; n'ri-boor] to be up on our
.tees arisut the 'small or trivial .
things .01' 'This lengeness or
tvoi: "tri" ffbatir ein.111 Things• is tieing--
HP
isrn'g"_Hp rile reserve 'forcr'.a We may' neer]
to t'.1 he big thing4 al life.
.:•-:•flrnntai•it has h i olod itrt great
. . ' ser,ipt(tr, 1lertclr • Thowaldneit,
•
-`u� It=i-tltt�zt i1T lfi•F•t, ftv 1SSLti `
stamp, two . Af Which bear his
tc t he 'third . statue Of
• t a.it and t a to
.3aten, his first inipo'ita'nt• w•dr1c, .
a'
iWS-.-
Parade
B�t:.El.izabeth "Hedy_•
ESCAPE: It's next to impossible
fora Getman to "get alit of Ger-•"
manywith. enough -marks in his
pocket to start ':a new home in an -
iOther country. He'8 • allxiwe.d to
arrf Aabroad, tut enough mariey
for a good holiday, no more.
Now cones . to, our, :ears: tilts • s,tory
of a clever, waif -who Oetwitted th.e
,. agents .;oi'.'H,jtle:r ;and' escaped from
• Germany forever, • .taking • all his
money _ with , him. Iiow did he do
• it? . He sold his prpperties, ppr�
•..chased, .bonds . f uegetia.ble in Great
Britain) with e pr th ' ro
ceeils, -made a •
•
• reFord-of the 'nunibei-s• of, the ponds, •
then took a holiday trip to England.
In:London no •con•taeteel a,.gi n, of .
bond, ttealer,b, told -thein his. `story.
•Tire fire) askedfo.1• .a dtt'•plieate •
record crf '.the 'Yrlirribe'rs pf • the,.
bonds,teent a law yell•,}lack into Ger.
Many with our cler`er• man: The
numbers ,checked, 'our •' friend lit a'
. •match•to the:bonds in the -presence
of Ale lawyer who later certified
that they had been. destroyed
by fire. Oyer in England again, the
triumphant fugitive was. reimbursed -,
min the total atount of the ''bond's •
And life began ,anew.' •
GREEN C.tt1'iHT: ':A (ivad]an•
judge recently rued- that ti pedes-
• trial who 'starts -to cross thi' street
when th•e light• is green has. • the
'.right. of way, till' he, gets ,to "the.:'
other side, regardless of• whether:
the light .changes; ito red- Tin the
•niean•tini'e or' riot.. That's one ,to
:member, moloristst : Birt if pedes -
Arians stand' -too 1 g'iilly by their
'rights in the niat.tet,...t-itty •,are• I'ikely:
`to,'run' into' t i oirl,1e , : et', be run
"fiLte. ' •. •• • •
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FREEDOM'S A GiFT:', "1 •.lisle,,
taken the sr?il ft :• do nu racy" last•
week detYlar•at1 firmer(z-e kti SA'tnbas
.sailor to (li•eat, l':rititin, .Ja-n bias
.aryk,'son of T.7io nios.l'oval(itt's foul-
.dtr. ,Sad b;;.t•'n:ot ltia: r at the fate
of his:beleve.d,conntry, he;has'come
Irl this "'continent to 'lu ha part in
'eavrng, shat Is left rif rlrnioei'acr•.iny'
the world today. Ile re 4nvoting
the •ri,st -of .hfs- liil. to .•^'•:`ing the
; cause `gi.i 114';(1011..
• Addres1rn • 1'o:'ontu ,iudieuee,
lie, saiai: `' 1 tly "thing drat ca.n
sayethe tri rl<lzr,.ot;.'is re ;make peo-
ple' .
eo-•ple- iindet•s:a'nd!tlit,t. 'fr i;rirjrll is a'
.;;l'e'nt F;FI't, \',-rr iu ,t 'do c.a e:•ything
•a.o i•'.h i pl.. :•c(• it.a
FpA•LLE.ti•AMONG THIEVES: :
•:' xprf•ssed the, opinion last, -week
that. France is ce(•tainly.,in for it.'
That' stronghold of ,li•besty . and
•democraey.• o11- the contili.ent :.of
'.Europe..is gradually: being encircled
ring. of, thieves and . black
rnlailerst Thp'day will 5ob». arrive,
'When her position- is in'tolerabl'e.,
At -the moment, France is report-
• ed 'to have•agreed to do nothing.to
prevent a Fascist victory • in Spain
exchange for a 'German pero.
mise -to dissuade Italy. from 'taking
slices: of France's African empire.
What' a promise and what ar bar-'
gain!''`' .'
Czechoslovakia first:. France next .•
will be•.sol.ib down the river. ,But
•-she Wilt have helped- to sell herself..'
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THE-WE•EK'S•QUESTION: What'
.does the Federal'Governnient's new
.relief .program' involve? . Answer
Starting April, 1, the Dominion will
'pay 40: per cent. of• dgr'reet relief
payments (i::stead .of •30'per cent)..
Each province will be required to, '
•pay at least an equaI.40 per cent.,
aild the -balance will be. paid by. the
municipalities. Under the Proposed
agreements the .Dominion• Govern=
nient• will provide for a' 'sharing of
.the cost'of aid given to.transie:its
on a: 50.5.0 basis.witit th p oein.Ees..
tha erlE ,.1,1:44 rtf t:ttI
,.,.
have already startedfeeding. the
:jobless single within their gates.
ilitler's New Study
'Thirty "Yards "Long,,
Walls Are 32 Feet High in the
German Fueihrer js 'Office --
NO Pictures, Few Books
Nine p'elrcals in different colors .
lie on Adolf Ilitiet's'lesk in hig new'.
Chancellery study, probably tie lar-
gest sturdy malatafned by any ruler.
There •is also a large •;magnifying
glass, indicating in'tenlye, study of
maps. There are rio , pictures but
:the 'hooks for daily rise including
Herr: Hitler's owir "Meir) .Kama,"
Hans Frank's "Book • of German'
aw,"' directories: of the Reichstag,
government office's . and. ,youth •
r'oups,„and .y.. topmost_.. a volume
on X ritish and German; lilies in the
Worid War. The room Is 83 by 45
feet and 332 fet high. At One- end is
a round table with cha'irs-and sofa
tinder a:Lenbaelr portrait of Bis-
marek. The desk is atthe other
end.' A bust of the late President
PatiY•ron Hindenburg is in one Of. 1
mer,' •
Ups. Adcock . f �i%ootolt'
ai s. ,Sarah o ,
England, 105 years -of age, took
—iter first i -,p 1 ice-a•a-ai'pysal a -t
weeks after 'her: 'first" r'ide'r Irl grid
automobile' and her first talk on
the teleig one.
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Amine '. $fe>
ecu s 'With. Russ ,; ,B1rido
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134k on British soil'follewing a, daring• flight into Russia to. bring home.
• his wife frpm,whom he had been separated for fent years, Brian Grover.
is pictured here"•with• Mrs. Grover as they reached London. • Grover.
made, headlines•a few weeks ago by making an'.unauthdized, trip to the
Soviet in. a dilapidated old plane: .He, was detained for six weeks 'and
after paying a fine was °allowed •to leave the country aecompanled. b'y, his -
wife, born a Russian. Grovel met his •trife while doing sciehlttfic work.
• for 'the' government• of, •Russia:
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Owls Creep Up . .
On Their Prey
Once . the Bird's Talons Have ,.
Fastened On Its Victini There
: Is •Small Chalice of Escape.
'Owls slip up on their' prey on
silent wings,—: -the feathers , being'
fringed with down to,render•thein
)noiseless. ,:Once the bird'. strong
talpns. have secured [a, grip Cut an
anin;a1's. flesh, ' the ;creature., Sel-
dom escapes.. •
lairds are able to see' at least -
10:0 times as well' as- can human .
• beings= -yet they cannot see the
color•. blue. ' " •- '
Half the weight of .a bird eon -
gists ofthe muscles that move the
.wings..
Consume ' Small Creatures
..As many as 3,000 skulls of
.mice, rats and•gophershave, been,
found underneath the • nests of
barn -owls.. These birds consume
small' creatures in their' entirety,,
later Coughing up 'the boiies. and
fur:
Of all living creat
possess most ac ive respiration and-
require.the moat oxygen:.'The re--
son is that the air they inhale' is
sent' from their lungs into pockets
surrounding their internal Or-
gans, and even into the inside of
some of their.. bones.
Cpnr'ptetedt. Manch• 31
', Most "o'f the projects, are .under
way. 'Ah twist: be •completed, : by
March 31 i.jnder the• 'term's ,of two
agreemelr•ts With the ;;7ederal.•.G'ov-
• ei•nanent covering winter., •.relief .
workup to, that 'date. • •
,,,,Clearing and ',grading, involvingthe 'er'iniinatten • of•hills and curves,.
ronstittad the chief works under
. the agreenien:ts with the F ed.eral,
Government: An advantage: cif do-.,
ing this, work in,the, winteris that
l'eared'� brush 'can ,tic. burned tvitll-
out: tianger'tii?..causing forest fires.•.No °}iernranent Surfaces i•iI1 be laid:
in the winter months,' . ,
Clearing 'And "Grading
'The •.Highways Department •esti,.
mated' that upwards of 1.00 miles of.
the' Trans -Cauda. .Highway be-
tween North 'Bay and the Soo is.
ready for permaneiit surfacing any
time,. a first class rba'dued having
been ]aid. •No decision iras . been
. 'made on whether any paving is to.
be done this year;�`it was stated. ;
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You - Can Sleep
uses, birds, . ,On -]Either -Side
Three Millions
Being ' Spent On..
. Northern Roads
t..
l r -Ort .N o-rtherrr ' 3n'zi
tario Highways This Winter'
• --Trans-Canada Links..
Three million dollars is being
spent this winter on Northern On-
tario roads, chiefly on the Trans-
Canada Highway from North Ilay
to Sault' Ste, Marie and•roads run=
•ping north from- it, 'Ontario High-
ways Department officials report.
•
1 .it .teas long held `that right-
- handed peo-ple••generally sleep: on .
their right side, while left-handed • •
• people. go to sleep on the left side.
Caiteful experiments which hive
been carried out recently . show
that this is tot really the • case.
When 150 night -handed persons
were examined .it was found that
there was no great preference for •
sleeping on one side or the other,
although irn,th'e•case of left-handed
:people'the'niajority preferre:d.the
kei 7r=sm e '
47-4,440 e c itis 'Of e
distil, 'sleepers were - asked' {o` -`go' •
to re..t so Many nights ,on their
habitual side, it was found that.
. they got to sleep more easily; when
on, their normal side 'than when
they were in the minstrel - position;
:The doctors, therefore, feel that
people, whether they be grown-ups
or • boys or girls, 'should. make' a
practice 'of' sleeping on the 'side
which they usually, favor.
V BICE .F
EXCEPT
Afarmer's •wife; after looking
tlMONEY,
over a • ne�v recipe bdok; expresses
the op]nion• that:,it .possible ,to'
make.alm�ost anything out of eggs,
except nio)ley.4--Manetol: Tran-
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script..
TRY �•'THE RU •
RAL AREAS
. •.�1T1prQnto:. woman has written
to vont otiver for' a husband
s.itua'tio� in `taoi.onto probab
1
tire •
same sae as in Guelph -the
lady has `has found • alit all', the 'nice
men are already rldarri.ed.--•=G
The
ly is
dear
uel:
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AND TO DOUGI'S ALL SPENT.
• As the public accounts of. Optar
to are not . distributed:' until'•,the
,Legislature` meets; and it will as=
ssei ble Iate,:thrs year,tthe;:accotints-
will he •11'inonths old before any
'ane, but"members of the 'Cabinet'
see -them., -W dstock.,Sentinel-Re-
thew,
DRIVERS WHO. FALL 'ASLEEP t,
It maybe .surprising. to' learn
that driver's w•ho fall asleeri, at the
wheel are the cause—df more .than
70,000 automebile,accidents .annu-
ally... I'r pays to have ia11'• senses
alert when in:'charge of •amotor
car; -Chatham News.
BETTER LOOKED AFTER
very' potent fact which 're
strains, 'emigrants : from' leading,
Great- Britain to risk .ventures 1n•
the Dominions is the 'social s'ecur•-
its measure in effect :over .there..
U.a-reniploynnen.t insurance and cad
,'age pensions ai•e the Inert. bene: .
fits which are ' not offered in .all
British Dominions:=Brandon Sur.
is composed of
ad.u.lts.�I:eth•Briclge Herald. "'`
Nmna�eta�ria.>�s•
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For 24 years; C. G. Gabb' has ,
been keeping a r e.eord'of the death
,notices' published • .dally in The
London Times. During. that' per
iod, reports Gab)), 9,781 persons:
passed•9.0 before dying -and most
of the -nonagenarians were ,mar-
ried women. • The year 1938; when . -
489 persons . oyer-• 90 died., was .
typical .of that total: 154 were
'men and 33'5 'were women., 213: of
them married.
.Chemical experts assure tits
British' Government that if • the
worst . came to', the worst 'the'
pee* coti]d be 'fed on. tablets'
which: would . provide . everything •
necessary except.,bread and water,
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aren , f en
May Grow Apples.
New Hope For Arid Eastern
Lund Is. Seers In The Giarnlf
- Reservoir Being Build In Iraq.
By British Engineers.
...Women and .men may- Wok ap•
Wee once more in the Garden''bf
Eden when water flows tnto. the
arid eorintry .from a giant reservoir
built by'.British engineer's.
The Kut Dani. irrig;atign Project,+
designed to bring under cbltivation.
a great tract of • Land between -the
Tigris -and Euphrates rivers, •tradi
tionaf site -of .,„the land from which .
Adam' and Eve were expelled, 'Was.
completed New ' ear's eve.
Dam Across Tigris_
A 1,500 -foot dam across the -Tigris
Will ,send, water .down• a 214 -mile
canal ;into the •S•hatt-el-Gharraf rive
er• at all seasons of the year. In
addition, locks will :.perni9•t- •'vessels.
to voyage along -the Tigris between •`
•.Baghdad •arid Basrah°,m •
mid -
Work on the project, was started4
in Dee,ember, 1934,• with, con_ stf'auc- -
• tion of workers' camps. and actual
building of the dam and' reservoir •
begun in. June; 1935. As many •.as
2,5:00 Arabs and K\urds'lab'ore�d day ..
and night 'removing •1,600,000 cubic •
yards of : soil .from, the. reservoir
and placing :mote than -250,009 "cu- ' ..
bic' yards o'>� ,concrete„ •iti the, giant
forms that ;shaped the•'dam.,
In. 1936, the highest' flood, ever
•
known.. in .th.e 'Tigris delayed.°alrork. ,
Laborers Winked 'under' conditions .
varying. •from freezing in winter to
.125 degrees in the shade hi, raid-.
.SPORT AND CRIJVIE
' . Juvenile ernne :in. Lethbridge.
-has diminished p�r,ceptilily. ' Th'i's
Year' 'there,�have been only '20 jilt:,
venifes in court so far as against, ',
38 ,last :yea;.: This; 'we' have no
hesitation in :saying is geatl'y .due
to .tile : encoura•gement given boys
by •fhe faeilit]es lirovi•ded 'by com-..,
inanity playgrounds •arid :skating.
••rinks and the inte>,�est taken iia•'ju-
'nior Hockey 4ssoeiaton, .the . ex- .
ecutive of 'which-
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Deer Leaps Into ' •
Office By Window
Police of Lor'tdon, Ont:. wer.
'Called at 4.30 one morning las,.
week to arrest a new .d of
•bu•gla]Gri
rr ,a 125 -pound deer that
leaped, through the office 'win-,
dew of the I.eonat'd • Foundry,
when 'startl'ed by early morning
noises.,
e •rec'eiveti ]a .call from'the
•night wat:hman 6.1.5-out4 o'clock,•,
end, he• said, 'You may -not be-
ieve.41, hil..'..1 c1eel..jtlstCfYecl�
'kh�b.i�i;., tl� ,. tlyid;• � !� • 1
fice;' " stated Sergeant (,Percy
Last. PC.'s W Clipperton.
and Charles Shipley were .des-
patehed' With • the :black maria'
to retnbve. 'the frightened deer
from• 'its tie* found sanctuary.
It'required four men' to: capture,
it and place' it in' the pcdli.ce
transport in- w.hi„h it, was taken,
to Pond Mills and released.
WONDERLAND OF ;OZ
The owl-man's'round (Tea 'b,iinl:-
ed,ftercely upori'the intruder: "What
Are you doink here•?” )re'-cienlnnded,
shaking his elute: "I've corno to seg
tl .i F1rot and" Foremost T'hanfasnt
of Phantftstlico," re»l'ied the C.enerel.
•e ,did no like the, wa tills, crea-
•.,die- .. r . ,: &: ,t. .. y..-"_..
raid, fru y,
• �1,._ r 3 shall ate hint, the
van lord 'with a tipeering iaukh.
",The First and' Forernort shall, dei"
bide Wrens the best way to pmts] • •, ,
ti.H
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"Ile.will not punish me 4' returned
C",ti >h, ra.11nly
"fOr f: ]lave came,hero
to do hint and his pc'ctp:le x rar,e'fav-
• or. Lead on and take nye dirrefly
• to your 'master." Tho owl-rnan rai:5-'
• ed._hie club with a threatening.2t4 —
t"Clre, "If yaar'try, to escape," he said,
.interrupted titin. " "Store- , y`our
threats," he said, "end do not be •
Iti'lpertinent. I will have you acv-
a�rre1y tunislled, Letrd on and keep
ietlent.'•
summer... •
liniadreils in Bei•lirr•wore'waste-
paper baskets over their heads on
"Pedestrians' Day" to draw atten-
ti'on' to the carelessness that •often-
leads "to fatal accidents..
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Nazis Ispprec
1 ,v Co
k P::opaanda Minister 'Goebbej
in..
-�- xposition .of ,.German .'.e -•,
rIt' Tian 60;41 bdtioe0 i to world pr .
grisly chi' ` week reminded !lir ' g
, away giving. •observers who insult
.and criticize authoritarian stateai'
'that "America was diseovereed by
• an Italiana'
Goebbels spoke before a concert
inaugurating closer radio co -opera.'
;tion with. Fascist Italy.. -the lrOntO.
Berlin radio axis" as he'put it. •
Goebbels said "the world of today
• is not imaginable" withouttaGermali-
Italian accomplishments.
'Not :imaginable': Without Them
''Books and.:"ue °s,papers can )30
Tinted: because utei ber invert
1? $ t
...
. od the• art of p1 in.ting.'. The wirQ-
less. for all Time is':connected with
• the name of the Italian, Marcum•,
The.: first :C.Ornbvs'tion.,:niotors were. �r
made byuvthe Germans, .Benz' and :
Dait'nle'S, " he summarized.
' • ",The old, ands new;, .world' have'
• - taken possession. of these. aeconip- ..
itshments and' •:.benefit therefrom.".
P
',Vets World. Record
• With Model ],lane
e Sohn T Dilly Gait, model
aeroplane'designer and builder.;
has been advised lie • broke -a'
world's record for model .planes:
At the .Canadian , ,champion-
:ships in Toronto.Jast .Septern-
ber 'his outdoor •'stick .model
stayed, aloft four minutes •and
tvyenty-two seconds. He ' lop-
ped sixteen "'seconds off the.'
world's hiark. The Federation
'Aeronautique international of
Paris :ha's' now: recognized this
as an. official .world'srecord..
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`LIFE'S LIKE THAT
By.,Fred' .Neper
9W--hy dont'chatake the striped one. .'
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It'll make you look taller.'
By L. Frank 'Bum
This au' ph was really a elerer
' cal" and it semis a pity ,he Wes 50
bac. for in good cause he might have
eecotttpti hed •rntycfi. He rea)tzed,
that he had put himself' into a don-
•erous position by, earning to this
dreadful mountain, but ho also kpety
if be thawed fear, he was' lost, co
-'bEs't•dei'e,ilse. he v'lscictrii Of Mrs
Wan ,was• taon' • eviden•t . for the
1 h tnfa.sftt. wft'h .the owl.:q head turn:
ed and led' the *ay .up the Moun-
tain,
At, the very -t,:-.0 ..1", tie 1' t!i.ly;ifi••1..
a level plain rrptrn'tt hit h w, re ht npa
.of rock that at - first u;anr'' st'taned
urtlld,
.hut. oh looking °r r,;mrr ,tup,tt
'riacoi,+ered' that these • rut•1: tot ins; * ,
tveredwellinas, for:each had rt.n:OP. :
i tti11 „•ttE .t f .c'c d? -tt rte s, t ri
itte� . t• ,e -r+- , ,tC St 1i5' b.
rant, lhp nttl•m.tn Ird thea way.
ili
oer€' the dwollinl'• t,i one stt,'nd-'
in.g in the 0:entre. tlti,t:side the' en. •
trance the guide gave n Paw wail
that sounded like L,ec•Ow-.4>a,` :
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