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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1967-08-30, Page 9- WEDNESDAY; AUGUST 30th, 1N7 .... . . . , • . , . . 'THE LUCKNOW SENTINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO : . PAGE NINE • SUGAR AND SPICE by Bill Smiley Winner number two • This is the other winner in the Smiley -To -Expo contest. According • to Mr. Smiley this column was (one of the first to arrive and just kept bouncing back into the - final.". By Ediiin VV. Mills • Hamilton, Ontario The subject is pheasants and •I live on an island in the • Muskokas to which spot I came some five weeks ago; together ********* •. . . With the TOPS • . . Et11:ertaiiirnent • • . *•.***••li 3tt *,* *.":* -• THURS., FRI., " • Aug. 30,, 31, Sept. 1 Firty Acre Fue(I Forland Husky, George Gomos It's good old Western Music at itsBest Minhisola C14 C. Mltdi.II' . • ;•Technicolor .CARTOON SAT.; MON., TUES., "opt.. 2, 4, • Modesty Blaise • . • TorraneoStanip, Monica l'echniebtar The most unusual adventure -- Oat* yeti See HER you will never forget 'HER. • • 1111 an • • • A. w•st Technicolor . . TWo great heroes on.the screen- ' 'Batman and ,Robin' CARTOON. . ' . **.a.11.! SUNDAY MIDNITE Sopt.' 3 • • GIANT TRIPLE SHOW Island of Terror. PrOleCted,,, 'B. kialliday Tee.hnicolor Drag Strip Riot • , • Adult Entertainnient .'.11Orror and Hot: Rods.. with a car full, of the usual clothhig, food, etc.. and, perched on top of,everything, a •Carton containing two cock pheasants! My wife, a:rather bland 'and, . gentle creature -Avith•whom I have lived comfortably for • nigh„ on 40,, years, had .her •doubts from , the start. I add that, unless, yeti keep fowl in •'cartons on a level keel, they • scratch and fight., , • '• 7 • To' avert the crisis, I suggest ed. we choose ' names for the little beggars and we fixed on Lester: and Jahn ,foi" privately, we felt, like their namesakes, neither would be around :for •long. • • On the way up, Leiter, got into a hell °fa fight`ivith his • loyal opposition and arrived • without his tail. — attached, that is. Leiter, of course, was a .bird of peace — his namesake, • ,get medals for it -- so the • whole thing gave him an in- feriority' complex and he hid for a week. . •• John, however, was just like • • the other John and, with the . • field to himself, he strutted, prened and squawked — gawd, • how he squawked all day long! . Being an old farm hand, 1 Made several trails of cracked corn and; wheat ending at' a • feeding place in, front of thair and window. John, being „conscious of the importance of lquznber One Minitoba hard in his life, caught on first and within a few days was doing •• his stuff right in front of my wife and ‘I. But, watching the • two ,cocks, . both single wing clipped, I felt there was more to t,he dr:iv of• PHotio'30.1a• - - • •'STARTING TIMES Monday to Thuraday-11 Come; as late as 8:30 to See complete' she* Friday and Saturday 2 Shows.-- 7:15 and 9:15. Saturday Matinee 2 p.m.,. unless otherwisonOted • • *OrstAitltAStrit WED., • AUG: 30, 31, SEPT. 1 • "GOOD' .TImgs", .cokair Starring: Georg'', Sanders, • Sonny' & Cher. • Look who's making the movie . scene ..,Sonny Is Cher sing, mg and swinging.. . , • 'SATURDAY MATINEE SEPT 2 "MA AND. PA. KETTLE IN THE. •OZARICS" • -edeliirkiekie* SAT., MON., TUES.,' SEPT. 2, 4, 5 •' (Adult Entertainment) ' • "RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP": •Coleur — Starring: Aida' Ray, Minrsay Farmir .• . , What goes on LIS Young peOple • gather to protest everyonerand • everything? 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'• I • •Vvatched ',John Carefully. through the glasses and two , • days after the..gals arrived, his . tail was high and his eye was , bloodshot! • ' • • Then disaster. struck! •First, when there was °no sign of • • Gerda and associates for a week, I decided to institute a • seareh. I 'fear they were • double wing, clipped by mis- take and, after a day or so of . Lester and John's company, • they just went high on a windy • hill and took off over ,water, and, this being their first • flight since being clipped and • put in the • shipping carton, • their feather power plants were insufficient. They prob., • ably came down, got water longed 'and sank. I add that John and. Lester both tried it • twice, went 'ars over top' and only got about ten feetand pad • dled back. . Then Lester got dive bombed by a red-tailed hawk, our' biggest next to eagles! He got to cover, but it scared the living hell out of him and Les- ter is a bird,of peace —at any •,..'price! So he sat down with John and probably, said "Conte, let us reason together, this is getting to be too damn danger- • ens besides the lady birds are gone — let us take wing on the morrow" or pheaaantese‘of equivalent eloquente. SUGAR PLUMS BY REV. DUNCAN McTAVISH I have written, about other trees • that stand out. in the memory of my childhood days, but none cold be of greater importance than a plum •tree in the orchard of my maternal .grandrnother. It was a short distan- ce to the west of the first old house she lived in and not far from the well from which the family derived its water supply. • •• • It was a small tree. But every, year it produced, a prop of plums. Theywere .a light/yellow colbr unlike any Other plum I had ever seen and were most delicious tO eat • . . . Lester abdicated ,a• week .aigo • and we hear him daily from , the. deep woods :on the main- land. I can't say that he actual.' ly = followed . the route of the gals, because inferences might • be . drawn, and a Royal Commission .appointed to in. • vestigate. It Might even topple the Government: . • Old John, however, excites our admiration. He just stays on and -On and on and on. I think his squawk IS that there is nothing repeat, nothing ;to beat good old western Canada wheat. So, being hi dire. straits myself,I am entering this plea that you accept my story and send me your cheque by return , ' mail so 1 can go to the trading post and get some more -of the, real stuff for good old John. • • • 'Silt mittsamilitS rilliak•Vktimkiorwa•UWuvr • . . As I recall, they *ere not noted for • their cOoking qualities like'the • Green, Gages or the Lombards that, iwere nearby. But .the flesh over a • small stone was sweet and tender. iThey were called Sugar Plums by :Grandma. Whether that was their , botanical name or not. I probably will never know , ribr do I care. The name:was...most suitable considering the'quality of the fruit. • They ripened just a little. sooner, than other Varieties Ofplunls and • this event was sure ttilriark an in- fIux of grandchildren to visit Gran- dinother McNair. We were welcOme guests.at any time, but mostof all when. the Sugar Plums wire' ripe. There was no 'need for entertainment or making lunches - • On such Occasions:, All she had, to do was remind Us where the • Sugar 'Plum, tree was, (something we already knew),. and awaywe • • • LoOkirm back over the years, I • • suspect there was some anxiety for 'Grandinother on these annual visits to the Sugar' Plum tree tOt fear we • would over -indidge haiie a slightsuspicion there Were times .whenwe did and suffered the con sequenceS. But even:a sick stom- ach was soon forgotten in the mem ;pry of those SUgat Plums. Besides Mother .Seemed well equipped for Isuch emergencies,• A visit to the medicine chest and. a dose of Castor • spafl,ew!nl,d gUara.n•. o narrri.- MOthet knew . how to play it f •