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T don't know about you but
'we've had a real whiner of a
unmer. Just a mad, gay, 'the
Great Gatsby sort of thing.
You know what I mean. You've
been through it. Loitering by the
pool with an extra -dry martini
•and the golden girls undulating
past with so little on that Yow'
eyeballs pop out and s Minter your
sun glasses.
Enchanting evenings on the
beach, waves lapping, the fire
glowing embers, and just the
twenty-four of you. Night, and
mystery, and romance. (By the
way, did you ever try to glow an
eMber?) It's quite a feat.
And speaking of feat, the only
lapping I'veheard this summer is
our a' iysmaUy stupid cat lapping
the sweat off kny feet. He seems
to like it — probably has a salt
deficiency problem — and I must
admit it gives me a strange,
perverse thrill.
Perhaps by now you realize
that in my own far from subtle
way, I am suggesting that we've
had a bummer of a summer.
a to'
i Ami
for a summer bummer
And you are absolutely, without
qualification, one hundred and
twenty-four per .cent right.
Oh, don't think it's been a
complete waste of time. We've
aged two years in two, months,
which i5 quite a feat. There's that
word again. Feet?
We haven't just been lying
around, watching the grass grow.
This would, in any case, be dif-
ficult, since it does not grow after
about the 20th of June. But the
dandelions are pretty, though
short-lived, and the wild clover
has a certain charm.
No, we've been quite active
socially.. It all started after
Commencement, last June. One
of the teachers had a party.
Teachers, after Commence-
ment, are somewhat similar to
Magellan's sailors, who, after
battling six months to round Cape
Horn, find themselves a Pacific
Ocean and a tropical island.
It was a good party, as parties
go, and they go . too long.
However, as we say in the game
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•MOUNT FOREST FALL FAIR
SEPTEMBER 9th and, 10th
Monday September 9th, • Hall
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Queen of the Fair Competition
Concert in the Auditorium at
8:30. Featuring the Lang Family
from Itildmay with dancing by
the Steppers Five, Lille Puppets,
d Country Joe Tappers: Tues -
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Show, 4-H Achievement Day,
Beef,: Dairy, Sheep and Swine
Show. Hall Exhibits and Com-
mercial displays. Peter March
Midways. Concert 8:30 'p.m. at
the Mount Forest High School
auditorium. Featuring: The St.
Andrew Apostle Folk Choir from
London with Dromore Junior
Farmers' Square Dancers, Ford-
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when we don't quite know what
else to say, we accepted a ride
home with our resident artist,
who came in for some hot
chocolate and burned a hole in
one of the end -tables as big 'as
your eye, when no one was
looking, in the process of putting
0 out a cigarette.
I think that started the summer
on the wrong foot. I seem to have
a fetish about foots and feet today
but don't let it bother you.
Well, to get back to our
swinging summer social life, it's
been something. We've been to a
funeral and a wedding. I've never
had so much kissing in my life.
While the funeral was sad, in a
sense, it was also a family
reunion, in another. Nephews and
nieces I haven't seen in years.
And four of the five Smileys all
together at once, for a first time
in a couple of decades.The wee
Colonel was in Germany. And the
wake had a good touch of Irish in
it, if you follow me.
And the wedding was a pretty,
good shot, too, even. though we
discovered the happy couple had
been married several hors
before due to some stupid,
ridiculous statute. I gat to kite not
only the bride, but her four odder
sisters, all of them folrner
students of mine. And their
mother.
Also, as it was a Ba -lull wed-
, ding, quite a few of the guest
ranging from suckling babe
grandmothers, were turn..
students.
I like to see them and talk to
them._ John H. is an artist who
gave me, I think, a lucid 'ex-
planation of how he is trying to
combine the purely visual, the
abstract, and ,his own con-
sciousness. John M., on the other
hand, was' about to .head, for the
west coast, but someone was
trying to talk him into going to
Germany 'instead.
Margaret sang some songs that'
make the ripples go up and down
your spine. She has granny
glasses and a great grin.
Len is a grave -digger. Gets
twenty-five bucks a day whether
he has to dig a grave or not. He
offered me a special deal, on
ervice
. After
he
Tet to
No+ litl , seMehedY (must
wary the blasted torch. I' been
swimming twice. x have driven
past the golf club once.I've been
fishing oPeemid
three
crappie My wife just broke
three ribs. We've been Waiting
for the roofed for three weeks.
And%+►,, 'we have our
third big mal aeon of tie
summer. Ny daughter and her
husbander* arrivingwith twenty,
retarded adults whom they've,
been retraining, for a picnic in
the back yard.
.'istairctsse
to yesteryear
i
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Aside from the full-time .three
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each summer to work las guides
and maintenance crews inthe
two-storey museum which is
comprised of about 40,000 square
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The large building stocks abort
12,000 artifacts geared to reflect
rural Ontario life of years ago.
The : founder worked as a
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"We still get' many school
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bOlieve at 20 to 25 thousand
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The museum strives to take,an
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the emphasis on bringing a piece
of yesteryear to the people.
Among its scheduled showings
is an exhibit at the,lnternational
Plowing Match September 24 to
28. The match this year will be
held in Georgetown. The museum
also sponsors displays at the
Huron County Historical Jail and
at the Bank of Commerce in
Goderich.
The showings commenced at
the beginning of the summer and
will end sometime in September.
Mr. Scotchmer says some of
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shown "on, our mobile display at
many of the upcoming fall fairs."
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