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lee that; the 'arins point In a
M �If Commons the first: res,
'' f old -age pe ns,
. His .1o00101e assoiate
late C. D. Howe',' once rel ''
"Reverend Dare has the
Church to walk into any dep,
anthvinotke a request
ability it' will be granted."
' elockwise 'direction. Now ad- - .► ■ r� • ' ; ,r: w
herents to the older Bon faint
Use a Yung4TrAng .with ams
which point in a counter -clock-
wise .re lrai :"' "T '"c `S"?o
man broke in: "Looks to me
more like a 'swastika. Where've
you been? Berchtesgarten?"
Ousting Demons
"Na, no" Perkins reassured
him.. "hix91°-,r,&oml
a Tibetan monastery, used only
on ceremonial occasf ens." "But
what do they do with it?" "Well,
as a matter of- fact, they use
thein in very secret ecclesiastic-
al ceremonies - for exorcising
demons. They axe used' in pairs
by two monks. When.one is out
of broth, the second takes over
and a loud rumbling low sound
is emitted which. can be heard
for miles on a still day right
across the valleys....." As he
spoke Perkins, was far away,
gazing at the peak of Everest
and the continuous chain of
snow capped mountains of the
Himalayas. "Oh, it's a sort of
musical instrument eh?" "Exact-
ly officer. You've got it in one.
It's a musical instrument."
The man didn't ever' consult
his book. "Music, ,,instrument.
Okay! Hundred ped cent duty
on it."
If you ever chance to land at
London Airport, do me a favor.
Look over the mantelpiece in
the snug customs office. You'll
see it there, but check for me
whether the arms of the swastika
really do point clockwise. Some-
how I feel Perkins got confused.
At any rate the had no luck,
ON THE Canoe Trail
DATELINE: ELINE: -`J
AT Somowhere is
the vast hinterland.
It i i is
i am sitting at a picnic table,
looking over a beautiful, small,
blue lake, ringed with golden
sand and white birches. Twenty
-feet-from-shore,---a-devoted. cov
ple swims quietly among ° the
lilypads. They are. wild ducks.
Farther out, a loon raised its
arrogant head on its snake neck,
then dives.
were sitting forlornly, side by
side, on a cot, swatting, mos-
quitoes, eating burned sausages
and blueberry muffins, and burn-
ing with envy of our neighbors,
every one of them in a luxurious
trailer.
.-- --A plaque- had informed •us -that
we, were camping right .,on ,an
historic canoe route;tl -'used` by
early explorers and fur traders.
It•s still a popular route.
When I look up, slim, sway-
ing spruce lean together to cir-
cle blue distance that nialles
- the head swim. In their branch-
es, four and 20 blackbirds talk
over last night's party. On the
left, our Indiana neighbors whis-
tle for their setter, who is try-
ing to catch a duck. On the
right, our Illinois neighbors
shriek exultation over a string
of eight -inch perch.
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Behind me sits the tent, rath-
er resembling a very sick cam-
el; And inside the tent, mild -
eyed, wan, and woe -begone af-
ter two straight sleepless nights
under canvas, broods my wife.
*
It's been a grand holiday trip
so far, but something tells' me
'we went at it backwards. After
two days and ni, his truism the
Thiid�-seas, being wined and
dined and waited on hang and
foot, we were unceremoniously
bundled ashore at the lakehead.
We cooldn't face it like that,
cold, so we holed up in a hotel
for a night. Next day, we were
up at the crack of noon, and off
on our camping trip. That is,
after lunch, and putting up our
hair, and taking it down, and
shopping for grub. We .finally
hit the road about 4:30 and
belted off on our adventure. The
scenery was superb: huge• humps;
of rock, swathed in green; dark(
serpents of rivers, gliding fare
below; . dizzying glimpses of
Lake Superior, blue and splen-
did and almost frightening in
its immensity. Say, this camp-
ing was great, so far.
* * *
Then came the dawn, at our
first -"campsite. Or, to be literal,
the dark And us in'the midst of
it, trying to,, put up the tent.
Inside out, as it turned out.
* :k *
The charcoal wouldn't burn.
We couldn't find anything --the
This occurred to me about 4
a.rn., as •1 lay there staring.
starkly at the roof of the tent,
my wife whimpering in the next
cot. About every four minutes,
a transport truck thundered
past onthe highway, sixty yards
behind the tent. At, one-hour
intervals, a train hurtled clatter-
ing, -by, about 200 yards away.
And every so often, a jet liner
screamed past right overhead.
-And I lay
there; -sick-
envy of- those hard-bitten fur
traders, on their canoe route.
*
Not for them the stumbling
over tent pegs. Not for them
the charcoal that refuses to
light. Not for them the never-,
ending, muddling search for the
egg flipper or the toilet paper.
And above all not for them
the endless recrimination -S-71
can't quite imagine the'follow-
ing conversation taking place on
the canoe route, on an August
evening, sayin 1742.
* * *
"Hey, Pierre, we're de hell
did you put de kl.eenex?"
*: *
"Dot's allvright for you, Jac-
ques, but oo was de one o0
said we didn't need no French
dressing, and'ere I 'ave de sal-
ade' ready, and no dressing?".
* ,,, 6 *
"By gar, Jacques, for two
beaver 'ides 1 nevelt-. go wit' you
again on a petite camping trip.
All de time you boeuf, boeuf,
boeuf!"
* * t`
No, it couldn't happen. Oh,
well, that's progress. Guess I'll
go in and give the old lady
another tranquillizer, strike
camp (it takes only three hours
to "strike camp"), and get roll-
ing for the next episode of un-
adulterated horror.
Immigration to Canada in the
first quarter of, 1965 totalled
coz
the first,.quarter of 1964.
LOOK BACK IN ANGER!
Travelling 'the world you can
usually bring back an intereg-
ing story. Occasionally the best
of them oocua--after-the-. ;travcl„
the ausfluge, the expedition, call
it what you will, is over. ,
World travel is specified be-
cause it entails meeting the
Douane, the Customs oflieials at
the boundaries you cross. And
while you` may be able to recall
some gide-splitting-stories from
the bars orBangkek, the coral of
Coimbatore or the swamps of
Saigon, it is when you ,meet
your own countrymen that the
joke backfires most forcibly.
It all started far away in time
and far away in distance. Fri-
end Perkins was staying on the
borders of Tibet with a dear
old man who had spent scbres
of years in Tibet itself, as a
British Trade Commissioner.
The old man spoke fluently' all
the several dialects of that coun-
try and when he "retired, he
spent his time conducting par-
ties on trips into his old haunts,
around pines -With- ,tames like
Gyantze, Shigatze, Shekav Dz-
ong or Phari DZ.
The great attractions on such
trips. involving travel with yaks
and mules and gaily caparisoned
muleteers,.' were the Bhuddist
monasteries. Most of these, the
best anyway, hang by an eye-
lash from . high up, on a sheer
rock face and while mildly pic-
turesque externally, it is only
when you get inside that a riot
of color, of antiquity and -strange
cercmenies greets you.
Being accompanied, not just
by one who spoke the languag)
but was also a friend df many
of the abbots and monks with
r land
which this strange • used
-tv° abqund; thiere-was-ir- vonder-
ful chance to become possessed
of one of the ancient ceremonial
ecclesiastical horns or trumpets,
called Rak-ditngs, eight to 16
feet long and closely approxim-
ating to, .the_ Swiss .alpenhorn_---
Sorne • were heirlooms, many
were embellished ip .color with
all manner of .designs and sym-
bols. So it happened, that for
a considerable contribution to
the bursar of the monastery that
'Perkins became the 'possessor
of a huge elongated copper horn
of priceless''value.
Yak -Leather
Because Air India is very un-
derstanding itn such matters, it
was possible to land this- strange
instrument at- London irport,
So Perkins arrived wish this
huge unwieldly trumpet wrap'
ped in layer after layer of rice
paper, sealed with the abbot's
seal on vast --silken ribbons•,-- the
whole encompassed by yak -leath-
er thongs. It was thus he reached
the customs. -
"You understand that you,
have to declare everything you
have acquired outside • this
country" said the customs man.
Perkins agreed that that was
his understanding and the offic-
ial asked: "And what have we.
here?"- Perkins like the friend-
ly way in whichfifeman i identi-
fied himself at once Wath what
some ,night have termed the
"White Man's Burden." Smil-
ing Perkins said: "Well, as a
matter of fact its an antique ec-
clesiastical artefact."
"1 think we'd better have a
"166 ' at it if" you aren't mind
Sir."
For the next half hour or so
the two of them struggled with
the now soft greasy knots of
the yak thing. Then came the
silken-ribbons--in-*verdant green
and gold and puce and before
Perkins could stop him, some
of the priceless wax seals had
been irretrievably broken. Fin-
ally the yards and yards of
paper had to be unfound.
"Good heavens!" gasped. the
customers' man. "What on
.earth made yon,,,, bring this
back?" This required some
thought. "Well? What exactly
is it?" It was obvious to' Per-
kins that here was a man, a
civil servant albeit, who germ -
imply' wanted to improve his
knowledge of the world and its
strange ways. He wanted to
know the significance of all the
-wierrdatnarkin s -which -.of -course
+g , Y
included the Yung-Trung or
swastika, believed to be the
great bringer of luck.
So Perkins embarked on a
long explanation. "Well officer
-always a useful word when
dealing with the gendarmes, as
you ask I will tell you. This is
a Lamaist version of the Yung -
death eu?ied " at blis° William as. 4.4.. LTni
home in Fort William last Thurs- minister in 192?.
day, following a lengthy illness Ile became
of Rev. Dan Mclvor, 94, veteran
churchman and politician. Rev.
Mr. 1V1clvor's wife, the former
Gertrude Bisset, was a daughter
the late fete, 7sset who
went from Goderich to Rosser,
Manitoba, about 1902. 'Mr. Sam
Walter of Fort William and
formerly of Goderieh'is married
to a daughter of Rev. Dan Mc -
,Ivor ev. and ° Mrs. Mclvor,
. _.. _ i . .. e_ ri`ch_ - orr
e �r 'Miters to God'
fuer v to
numerous occasions in' past
years and on several of those
visits he was guest preacher at
Knox Presbyterian Church,
Goderich.
'Some years ago -he twice saw
his obituary in print, once in
1928 in a church publication and
then in 1958 in the Montreal
Daily Star.
Of both incidents, he later se -
marked: "''They're trying to put
me away ,and I'm not ready to
go yet."
Born in County Tyrone in Ire-
land, he came to Canada in 1894
and later became a Presbyter -
.nn _minister._ _ He served__in.
Manitoba before going to Fort
F�tEE!
"HORN OF PLENTY"
el member
for Fort Will' 1n,1935 after
,briefly foling CCF lines' and
was re-ele ed successively in
1940, 1945, 1,j948 aud1953. When
:.1., • cd ffi of i__,,theA
with 23 Years service, he was
the oldest member at Ottawa.
A non-smoker and teetotaller,
"Rev. Dan" took an active in-
terest in several , ,Lakehead.
hockey teams.,
PERSONAL.
FJL. and Mrs. E. g de
and Scott of Trenton, 141,.
Mrs. E. A. Wynant, Jo`
..i
Nancy of IVIIllington,
Jersey, spent holidays with'
'F;
parents, Mr. and Nit's.
Young, Cambria read.
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Came;
Toronto, spent the weekend
Mrs_ Lloyd Picot, Canibr
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