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THE CLINTON NEWS -RECORD
ie Three Bright Seals"
BY A. A. DIVINE
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The seals came out of the darkness, 'expression of such sounds; "aughrch"
but we heard the sound o£ their com-
ing a long way off, and even when
.,our eyes helped us not at all we knew
where they were.
The night was dark, and strangely
silent. What Tittle wind there vias
reame from the east of north, a light
yind and uncertain, enough to keep
the niains'I bellied out, and the fore-.
.sail filled, enough to give us a fic-
titious air of progress. Actually, the
:heavy swell which rolled in endlessly
and with the awful inevitability of
the African coast, from the westward;
drove us back as mach and perhaps
even move than the wind sent us a
:head. The wind made no noise. Nei- away, and we saw theta by the light
ther with us or with the sea did it they made. There had been plies.
!sling itself about, snaking idle sounds. phorescence before they came, of
Under our: bows was .a little crush- course -there is always a good deal
,Ing sound at tithes; such a sound as of it in those waters when the weath-
:a naked toe might make in the smooth er is warm --but it had not been out
side -of a silent dune. ofthe ordinary. They seemed to
That was why we knew the seals bring it with them, or perhaps it was
were coining so early. They came onlybecause it was there that they
'down with the drift of the wind from came. Anyway, we saw patches of
•'the north-east,having perhaps heard brightness way out over the quarter,
us, for their ears are infinitely sharp- and the'sound' cains from there also.
er 'than ours. - First we heard the I saw two patches of light; so did
-cough of the old bull. Perhaps he Ben. Riordan said there were three.
had some affliction of the throat; at They came close up quite early, and
all events, every time he surfaced he Riordan said "Three!" but Ben ane
I could see only two.
The log line fascinated theta at
first. It was a short/line, yacht pat.
tern, and we could see the log ship
swimming in a little pool of phos-
phorescence that it made itself rag-
ged, and with streamers hanging out
behind.
The big bull went at it first. He
coughed, and then we paw him dive,
and after he dived we still saw him,
for the 'phosphorescence lined him
with light, He sounded, as I said, and
he swam up under water from astern,
and nosed at the log ship. Then he
phmged forward, still under water,
and came up to our counter almost,
and we could see the whole of him all
would be the nearest to it, perhaps.
After his cough we heard the noise
of their swimming.
They carne in crisp rushes, skitter-
ing along just above, or just under,
the surface. A neat, eager noise, like
tearing palm fronds. It was confus-
ing at first trying to sort out the
noises. Ben said that it was a whole
herd of seals -and that they were
still a long way away. Riorden said
that it was more than two or three,
and that they were close. I thought
with Riorden.
We saw them first out on the port
quarter, perhaps a hundred yards
•would cough. A curious sound, a
gutteral with an "r" in it somewhere
'Our language is not adequate for the
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"spinning the green fire, Ben, lad, if
ye hear the singing of them the sor-
row will be in the soul of you, and it's
hard put to it you'll be to keep from
the company of them after. My fath
er heard their singing and . . . ah,
but it's the beautiful sound."
"Three?" said Ben, and he, was un-
easy. "Three my grandmother. It's
a ball seal and his mate."
"You've no heart, Ben, no heart in
the body of you. And no eyes in your
head. Three there are, three of them
lacing the water with green, and mak-
ing .patterns that the .heavens could
not make though they flagged the
Milky Way to a' rag:"
"Two," said Ben, 'a ball' Seal and
hi. mate, and the fish are corning.
\Vetch them now."
The fish were corning. Never be-
fore have I seen thein- cone like that,
A shoal going through phosporescence
brake a' light of its own, but this shoal
MUM with a glory underneath it.
We could see it for a minute per-
haps, for it travelled slow. Big it
was, and formless, but the edges of
it were never. ragged. It hung there,
a fathom clown perhaps, not more,
and the light hung with it, and you
could see no fish, but only the cloud
of 'the light, rolling and swaying a
little at the edges, like a pool of
poison gas on a still clay, seen from
an aeroplane. Perhaps it was more
like a balloon,` not properly blown
out, and moving along feebly, but al-
ways with the edges, round and neat.
It came up with us, very slowly,
and then suddenly we pitched' a lit-.
tle, and the bowdropped down with
a splash. Quicker even than I can
think of it now the cloud burst, It.
exploded away from. us, as sparks ex-
plode when they tip the big ladle in
a foundry, or when the end of a high-
tension wire drops suddenlyin the
darkness. f
The aloud of the shoalhad been one
colour before, softly .bright, smooth,
neat -edged against the dark of the
unlit water; now it was all hard, jag-
ged flashes, little smuts of light,
streaks of startled fish, every one
separate, every one for himself, just
as human friendship break up under
a sudden stress. It was beautiful,
and it was also terrible.
The seals smelt the fish at the
same time - or perhaps they heard
them. They carne forward under our
quarters, one on each side, and the
green fIi'e was brighter now than
when they were playing, brighter far.
"Arch, my beauties, in, in, in," cal-
led Riorden, getting 'to his feet. "Lu
lu, lu in. Break then up.....
'"Seals," said Ben, "just as I` said,
going fishing. . .."
"Ah, Beni" said, Riorden, with a
lend of ecstacy.in his voice, and noth-
ing more. Ben was quiet for a while.
The seals broke surface amidships,
with a sort of rush, all bright and
fiery. Then they sounded again, and
the last we saw of them was a sort
of curuscation of light.
'Lost," "Strayed," etc., inserted once head, and though mostly he moved
"for 35c, each subsequent insertion thein too fast, the' clean, handsome
15e. Rates for display advertising shape of his flippers.
'.made known on application.
Communications intended^ -for pub- I doubt if there is' anything more
lication must, as a guarantee of good beautiful at sea. There was some
?faith, be accompanied by the name thing the poet said about "trailing
I.of the writer. clouds of glory." That's what he was
E. HALL - Proprietor. doing. Green glory, fiery green. It
swept and streamed aad flagged away
H. T. RANCE k behind him as if an easy wind were
Notary Public, Conveyancer blowing light down through a dark
b^inancial, Reat Estate and Fire In- night.
enranee Agent. Representing 14 Fire After a minute the old bull surfac-
Insuranee Co/beanies. ed. We could hear the splash and
Division Court Office, Clinton rustle, and then he coughed- aug-
hreh." The other swam up to him
fi[t rank Fingland, B.A., LL.B. then, streaming along the surface,
.*.Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public and leaving a wake behind her like a
power -boat. She must have been his
mate.
D. H. McINNE,+S"Ah, the three beautiful ones," said
Riordan.. . . .
"Two," said Ben, quite short for
some reason.
Riordan said nothing.
This thne the two of thein went
for the log ship together. They were
playing with it now; at the start the
bull had found out that it wasn't to
be eaten, and now they nosed it and
saw the wheel check out of the cor-
ner of my eye. Then it went on a-
gain.
Then they swam up to the ship to-
gether, and played about deep down
--perhaps nine feet, which would
bring then about to .the bottom of
our keel. There was a thin wavy
wedge of green light that came out
from there, and they weaved across
it and back, and cut patterns and fig-
ures in the water for a long thne.
Then they both surfaced again, and
the old ball coughed. Ben took the
flash -light from the cockpit and threw
the beam over the water. He picked
rip the big bull's eyes at the first
throw. Red they were, with the green
tire slipping off his head' and flippers.
The white light from the torch -looked
mean and stupid after the beauty : of
it.
"Ah, take the light off the beau -
Knox, Londesbo> o• Chris. Leon- ties," said Riorden. "Why would you
be after. disturbing thein then, and
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Officers:
'President, Alex. Broadfoot, Sea -
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Ian, Seaforth; Secretary -Treasurer,
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Directors --Alex. Broadfoot, Sea -
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lnardt, Dublin; James Li'onnolly, God-
erich; Thomas Moylan, Seaforth; W.
R. Archibald, Seaforth; Alex. McEw-
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Any money to be paid may..be paid
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Stephen Cartwright To Speak
From New York.
Fortnightly commentaries on Uni-
ted States affairs as they affect Can-
ada will be broadcast over .thenation-
al network of the CBC, 8.45 to '3.00
p.m. EST, beginning December 3.
The broadcasts, which will originate
in New York, will' be by Stephen
Cartwright, a Canadian who is now
managing editor of "Current His-
tory." He will interpret political,
economic, and social, developments,
and will deal with both domestic and
foreign policies.
Cartwright, before going to NeW
York, was editor. of "The Canadian
Forum," and previous to that was.
private secretary to ' Hon. Vincent
Massey, Canadian Iigit, Commissioner
to London and former minister t� the
United States. He is a graduate of
the Universities of Toronto and Ox-
ford.
The commentaries, to be known as
"The United. States," also will be,
broadcast as a CBC international ex-
change feature over stations of the broadcast of Empire transmission.
From BBC.
8.00 pan. "The Indian Speaks."
Talk by Rev. Peter Kelly. (Haida
Tribe). From Vancouver.
they the loveliest things God made?
Leave then, Ben; there's more my-
stery in them than you'll ever knew."
He was a queer man, Riorden, 'a
fisherman, from the little islands out-
side Daiwa:'He'd done lots of things
after, but his father knew the sea
folk, and Riorden half believed him-
CANADiA .►''Til A 'AILWAYS
-VINE TABLE
sTrains will arrive at and depart from
Clinton as follows:
Buffalo and Goderich DIv.
Going East, depart 7.03 a.m.
Going East, depart 8.00 p.m.
..Ghiwg West, depart 11.45 p.m.
'Going West, depart 10:00 p.m.
London, Huron & Bruce
mooing North, ar. 11.25 Ive. 11.47 p.m.
,,mooing South ar. 2.50, leave 3.08 p.m.
CORPORATION FEATURES
DAY BY DAY
(All Times Eastern Standard)
Thursday, December 2:
12.30 p.m. "National Farm 'and
Home Hour" With special coverage
of International Livestock Exhibition
at Chicago. From Chicago.
9.00 p.m. "Streamline". Orchestra
direction of Percy Faith with soloist.
Front Toronto.
Friday, December 3:
2.00 p.m. NBC Music Appreciation
Hour. Conducted . by Walter Dam-
rosch. From New York.
7.00 p.m. "Kishmoul Castle.". Cel-
tic folk -lore and sang from Inverness,
Cape Breton,' under direction Kenneth
Leslie. From Inverness..
Saturday, December 4:
2.00. p.m. "London Calling." Re -
Mutual Broadcasting System. '
Hawaiian Nights.
Another thirty minutes of popular Sunday, December 5:
Hawaiian melodies will be presented
to the CBC Mideast and western net- 6.30 p.m. Dr. Stewart Reviews the
works by Jack Siddell and his Ha- News. From Halifax.
waiian Orchestra on December 7 at 8.00 pm. "Columbia Workshop."
11.30 pan. EST. The Hula fox trot, 'Dramatization. From New York.
"I Like You," "Rock Me in a Cradle 9.00 p.m. • "Within These Walls."
ofKalua;" and "Jungle Love Song" Dramatization. Prom Toronto
will be instrumental offerings. Mary
They must have fed full, and quick-
ly, for they came back after ten min-
utes, and started playing with the log
again.
"And there's my three again", said
Riorden when he heard the first cough
of the bull.
"Two," said Ben, more insistently
this time. "If it wasn't that we
were a dry ship ..."
"Ah, Ben!" said Riorden, "it's not
one drop that I've had in me since
this voyage began, andyou know it.
The very throat of me's s crYto
g
out
for it now. Leave me to crying
Out for it now. Leave me be to my
three beautiful ones and go below.
I'll keep your watch and my own..."
We'd seen all the patterns we want-
ed then, Ben and I. The seals were
there and likely to be there all the
dark night. We went below.
It must have been a full hour later
that we gybed. The boom cane over
with a smash to port, and fetched up
against the weather runner with a
crash like a falling least. I was out
of niy berth on the crash, but Ben
was quieter. He was on the deck be-
fore me.
"God!" he said. "What the . "
But there wasn't anybody there to
shout at; the cockpit was empty, and
the wheel was in charge sof itself.
Ben halted at once. Riorden! ..."
There was no answer. We both
stepped to the edge of the counter.
The seals were still there, swimming.
"Riorden!" Bon sang out again,
and then,before -even he could catch
his breath bnck,he croaked out: "The
th`rd seal .."
I looked down. There were three
all right -only one was Riorden, and
he was brighter than the other two
by quite a bit.
Ben dived on the word "seal," and
it floated back to me almost from
the water. '
It took =us almost an hour before
we got Riorden ` breathing again, and
the first thing he said -and he was
still tmeonsciotts then as I think.
was: "Ah, the singing ..." After-
wards he said: "Oh, the three lovely
thins's` . . Ben said nothing.
-Mtn O'London's Weekly.
4.
Froin the night we had . set out
Riorden hadn't been more than half
himself. All fancies and queer
dreams, though the work we'd been
doing was practical enough, God
knows, to spill the fancies out of any
Man's mind.
Ben took the light off the big bull.
Somehow he'd looked naked and an-
cry under the glare of it. and Rior
'den stretched out his handand put
the torch down on the lid of the lock-
er beside the wheel. "Here they conte
again, the three wonderful ones," he
said to himself, half chanting, almost,
Baron, Edith Smithson and Helen
Chance, harmony trio, will sing "Blue
Hawaii," . "Ka Moae," "Pian Rose -
Monday, December 6:
8.30 p.m. "Pictures in Music." Mu-
sical sketches with soloists; Allan
lani," and "To You Sweetheart, Redi, organist, and the Acadian Con -
Aloha." cert Orchestra under the direction of
Marjorie Payne.' From Halifax.
9.30 p.m. "Half Hour With Rom -
"Night Shift" From Calgary. . berg." Soloists and orchestra. From
The Institute of Technology acid Montreal.
Fine Art, Calgary, which is operated" Tuesday, December 7:
by the Alberta government and which
is said to be unique among the edu- I 1.00 p.m. "The Happy Gang." Va-
cational institutions of Canada, will riety program. From Toronto.
be described for national network lis -1 -9.00 p.m. "Bonjour, Paris, Bonsoir?'
French cabaret scene direction of An-
dre Durieux with Henri Letondal,
master of ceremonies. From Mon-
treal.
Dai
LISTEN...
'CANADA -1937"
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IMPERIAL. TOBACCO'S
INSPIRING PROGRAM
FRIDAY 10 p.m. EST.
STATED NS CBCT-CBVQ
teners of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation on December 3, Froin 9.30
to 10,00 p.m. EST. The Corporation
commentator equipped with a portable
microphone will visit many points of
interest in the Institute and,besides
going a description of the various
projects on which the students work,
Wednesday, December 8:
515. p.tn. Don Winslow of the U.S.
will arrange for direct sound pickups Navy. Dramatic serial. From Nev
and interviews with officials of the Yort.
staff. 8.30 pan. "National Sing Song."
Community singing under the direc-
tion of George Young. From Ottawa.
The Book Review.
Four volumes by Canadian writers
will be reviewed by Prof. J. F. Mac-
donald during the "Book Review"
broadcast from Toronto over the na-
tional network December 4 at 7.30
p.m. EST. The works will be "Mani-
toba Essays," compiled in honor of
the 00th anniversary of the found-
ing of Manitoba University; Hector
Charlesworth's "I'rn Telling You," in
which the author of earlier candid
chronicles ,continues his reminiscen-
ces; "Life's Waking Part," an auto-
biography by James Frazier Smith,
who went to China as a medical mis-
sionary in the 90's, and "The Fable of
the Goat and Other Poems," a new
volume by E. 3, Pratt.
School Pals Re -United.
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Two school pals, parte since 1910,
wore brought together again by the
CBC's special Remembrance Day
broadcast, it was revealed in Van-
couver, where the program, originat-
ed.
Flugh Smith, of Vancouver, and
Archie Paterson, a patient at Shaug-
hnessy Military Hospital, renewed a
friendship started thirty years ago,
when both attended the same school
at 'Bannockburn, Scotland.
Smith, seated in his home, heard
Paterson during a pick-up from the
hospital. He recognized his voice and
name. The result was that a_meet-
ing was arranged and old days were
discussed. Both expressed apprecia-
tion to the ,CBC for bringing them
together.
Where Railway Cin
Get Their Names
People often wonder how railway
cars get their names. It's a system
ori the Canadian National. Sleeping
cars are named after stations. Cham-
br•ette sleeping cars beep the names
of Canadian ports. Perior cars and
buffet parlor cars are named after
Canadian lakes. Rivers give the
namesto safe parlor and cafe coach-
es. Geography is used for compart-
ment ;observation sleeping cars and.
history for compartment observation
library buffet cars, the former called
after capes in Canada and the latter
after forts. Dining cars, tourist cars
and lunch counter cars are designated
by number only.
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TH STR S., DEC. 2, 1937. 1
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WEEKLY PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, December 3:
11.13 a.m.-Boswell Sisters.
12 noon -Canadian Farm and Home
Hour.
1 pan. -Stuart Hamblin's Hillbil-
lies.
5.45 -Jimmy and Bob.
8.00 -Ross Cardiff's Accordeon
Orchestra.
Saturday, December 4th: •
10c30 a.m. - "Dedicated to Shut -
Ins."
12 noon -Canadian Farm and Home
Hour.
12.45 p.m.-CKNX Hill -Billies.
7.30 -Saturday Night Earn Dance.
8,30 -Ukelele Bill's Hillbillies.
Sunday, December 5:
11.00 a.m. - Wingham United
Church.
12.30 p.m. -The Music Box.
1.00 -"History Comes To Life."
1.15 -Guy Lombardo Orchestra.
7.00 - St. Andrew's Presbyterian,
Church.
Monday, December 6:
11.00 a.m.-Jesse Crawford's Mel-
ody Parade.
12 noon -Canadian Farm and Home
Hour.
12.45 p.m.-Pineridge Homestead-
ers.
1.00 -Stuart Hamblin's Hillbillies. .
8.00 ---Kenneth Rintoul.
Tuesday, December 7:
11.30 a.m.-Hold the Press!
12 noon -Canadian Farm and Home
Hour.
' 8.30 p.m. -United Farmers Diseua-
sion Period.
Wednesday, December 8:
11.00 a.m.-Southern Memories.
12.45 p.m: Pineridge Homestead!.
ers.
5.45 -Jimmy and Bob.
Thursday, December 9:
10.30 a.m.-Church of' the Air,.
6.00 p.m. -Cameron Geddes,
8.00, --Gladys Pickell.
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