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wommi•s1.,
Wilson budget aimed
in wrong direction
Finance Minister Michael Wilson used his traditional
new shoes to take a step in the right direction with his
new budget, but stubbed his toe while taking that
step.
His attack on the nation's soaring deficit was essential
and hopefully will have the desired result of halting the
climb in interest rates and the precarious position of
Canada's sagging dollar.
While that attack was absolutely necessary, its develop-
ment was suspect.
Rather than moving to curtail the run -away spending of
the federal government, Wilsbn chose primarily to throw
every Canadian into the firing line by increasing taxes on
incomes and a wide variety of products and services. Some
of the income tax increases come on top of earlier
increases announced' in his last budget.
While he may argue correctly that Canadians have to
start paying for the services provided by their government,
he failed to acknowledge that given the choice, most
people would prefer to seea reduction in some of those
services rather than in -their take-home pay.
That will becoine Mare panted in the next few months
when the auditor -general makes his annual report and
details the many areas in which the federal government
and its bureaucracy waste money.
However, the battle plan has been formulated for now
and there is nothing Canadians can do but dig deeper into
the tax trenches in which. politicians have forced them.
While Wilson is being lauded .forhis attatli on the
deficit, it must be tempered to an extent by the knowledge
that it is still being increased by almost 530 billion and the .
war is clearly a long way from being wen.
Titriet4dricate
Skating for arenafund...
• Even .though : Livingstone had
securely lied the gypsy to bis bunk bed in
the caravan,- he .took .no chances, and stood
guard over - over his captive while Teddy
Murdoch drove the vehicle. He did not.
trust the gypsy's "daughter" either and
ordered her to sit up front with the driver,
Much to the delight of the over -sensual
• young Mr. Murdoch. From the corner of
his eye, Teddy gloated on the girl's shapely
figure which no doubt filled his mind with
wicked fantasies. Through the little ,open
• trent window of the caravan, he communi-
cated some of his thoughts. 'to Allan
,Livingstone, and since he spoke in Gaelic,
he delighted in the fact that the girl was
'unaware .of his sleazy comments.
The gypsy's "daughter" was indeed
,beutyThi4c15 !tilted; blut.eyed and With a •
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Teddy'sipprasal �f .het .44
-afore vivid,het complexion changed to a
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viyid
red and .she shook with anger.•
"Shame on you, sir!'" She said vehe•
.mentaly. "Kindly keep your filthy thoughts
to yourself or I shall report your, conduct to
your commanding officer!"
Teddy Was instantly flabbergasted. How
could the girl have possibly understood
what he had been saying?, In a stammering
voice he tried to apologize. '
"I beg your pardon, ma'am, I didria
mean any offence," he said in a very
humble voice. "But how did ye ken what I
was talking abbot?"
"You. did not fool me for a MoMe
Said With an air of '-snperioiity;"But
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apparently completely fooled' you. Do I
have the eyes or flesh colouring of a gypsy?
My mother tongue is Gaelic, even though I
•'only 'spoke it for a few years as a child.
Befbre I had the misfortune to be abducted
by the gypsies, iny name was.Sutherland.
Bridget Sutherland!"
There was a long and awkward 'silence
which brought Allan Livingstone to the
little window to ascertain the cause of the
'sudden break in Teddy's usually cannon.;
ous dialogue.
. "What hae ye done tae the lass," Allan
demanded, seeing the obvious distress on
the' girl's face. "If. ye've as much as
touched her, gi!,ye a bashin 'When I get
• ye haine!". • " '
.• Teddy lidirdoeh was absolutely humiliat«
Whe lie at last found the vogragi to
ei4Id not torn 04 loOlpat Allan but
' • kept ,hrs eyes on the road 404 hoio
• head in disgrace. l•
"How was -I tae ken site was a H10-
lander like us," he said in remorse; • ‘I
,thought she was a gypsy,", •-
.
There was little more said for the rest of
thejourney. When they arrived at Redtrees
they discovered they: were the; first 'Of the
militia to'return. They parked the caravan
on the site it had previously ocellPied on
the land in ,front of the general shire.
Chippy Chisholm was WO old t0 accom,,
pony the Caledonian Scottish oh their fie/0
exercises and had stayed in the general
store, serving his eustomersai usual. The
sight of the carvan emptied the store of its
patrons and Chippy gleefully came fOrwatd
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to ask the militiamen if he could be 0
assistance.
"We need a place tae lock up the gypsy
until the Sheriff o' Brampton can come an'
fetch 'int," Allan, told Chippy.
, need. tae be good an' strong or the crafty
little devil will escape again!" •
"I ken the very lock-up frae gm."
Chippy said with a chuckle. "Yon stone pig'
pen at the Brodie place. It hae a good
strong door and there are bars on all the
windows!"
News of the gypsy!scapture,sopn spread „
• through the. community. Quite a number of
people came to gaze through the barred
Windows Of Brodie's pig' pen and some
poked fun at the little brown man.
When the Reverend *Ninon 'MacLeod
heard where the gypsy had been Confined,
• • he was appalled. He Initlied to the Brodie
Place where he encountered Chippy
holm, still bragging abOut the fact that it
was he who had found the gypsy a
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