The Bayfield Bulletin, 1964-08-26, Page 8Page 8—The Bayfield Bulletin—Wed., August 26, 1964
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Bayfield Man Flies To Scotland
To Attend Parents' Anniversary
(Continued From Last Week)
About every two days a skin-
ny partridge would be dumped
into the permanent stew stock
on the stove, and another three
doughballs or "dumplings"
would be dropped into make
some bulk. The onions had
been eked out to the last and
the rabbit stew was no longer
flavoursome. Damn monoton-
ous, in fact. While Alex, and
Jack played crib nights,, I
would fuss about making a
big bannock in the frying pan,
sometimes putting in a couple
of ounces of chocOlate and call-
ing it a cake. We slept better
with something inside.
I had abandoned my hope-
ful jaunts on snowshoes by
night with my 20-gttage shot-
gun on Which I had lashed a
sealed beam camp light. I
found I was getting more hun-
ger than rabbit as I used up
scanty energy and got only two
rabbits in half a dozen nights.
And one of these had been
stupid enough to jump up just
as I blazed away, trying to
clip the head and save the
body meat. Alex was greatly
disgusted with my bungling
marksmanship as he tossed out
the shot-mangled carcass acid
kept only the hind legs.
An unforgettable night was
the one I landed home in the
pitch dark, feeling my way
along the trail with my snow-
shoes, to find that the rabbit-
of-the-day had been consumed
by my hungry chums, with the
exception of one skinny little
front leg, about the size of a
chicken wing, and one dough-
ball. They looked up and laugh-
ed with great glee from the
crib game, and chuckled as I
cursed them roundly for
greedy-gutted clowns and glut-
tonous unprintable sons of un-
printa,bles.
Finally Alex confessed he
had eaten more than a third
of the stew, but after all, he
was the hunter, and as all
Indians know, the hunter must
be fed first and best, or all
starve. The logic sank home
and I sank down on my bunk,
cold, tired, very hungry and
childishly hurt. Things were
getting a bit out of perspect-
ive. One could get a glimpse
of how extreme hunger could
separate the men f r o m the
boys.
We chopped holes through
the ice to soak the snow, then
plodded up and down the lake
for three days, knocking slush
from the snow shoes every six-
th step, trying to freeze an
air strip. A thin shell of ice
formed on top of the slush and
nothing more. It had demanded
a lot of us, but was a complete
failure. One morning we awoke
to find the side of the lake
we hadn't tramped had, by
some quirk of nature, frozen
solid. Our "airstrip" was still
mush. The untouched section
was perfect.
We were quickly on the
blower to Rouyn and a ski-
shod Cessna 180 slid like a
lovely bird about noon next
day, complete with well-fed
pilot and 26-ounce bottle of
rum. Our sidebags were ready.
Nothing else could be taken.
While the fire died out in the
tin stove, we split the rum
three ways in the big enamel
mugs, cut it 50-50 with maple
syrup, dropped a snowball in
each and slugged it back.
It was about 35 below in
that Cessna, but it can be re-
ported that a painless time was
had by all as we roared th-
rough the sky to Amos and
FOOD.
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Bayfield Briefs
Mr. and Mrs. Clair Hall of
Flint, Michigan, were recent
guests of Mrs. Bruce Menerey
and also called on friends in
Brucefield. This weekend Mr.
and Mrs. Lawrence Turner
were house guests of Mrs.
Menerey.
Mr. and Mrs. William Par-
ker, were in London and Dor-
chester on the weekend visiting
their sons and families.
Mr. Robert MacVean return-
ed early last Wednesday morn-
ing from a trip to Scotland to
attend his parent's Golden
Wedding celebrations.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mac-
Vean were married in Perth,
Scotland, 50 years ago by the
Rev. W. Patterson. Their three
sons and seven of their grand-
children were among the 52
guests who gathered to honour
them on their anniversary, as
also were their best man and
best maid.
At the dinner given in their
honour, the wedding cake was
"piped in" in traditional Scot-
tish style.
Mr. MacVean who left Mont-
real on July 9 on "The Empress
of England" enjoyed perfect
weather during the entire trip
and reports having seen several
large icebergs on the outward
journey.
Mrs. Frank Harvey, Kings-
ton, Ont., Mr. MacVean's cous-
in, also went to Perth, but her
husband was detained in the
D.V.A. Hospital, Kingston, pri-
or to their intended departure
and was unfortunately preclud-
ed from going.
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