The Seaforth News, 1949-01-27, Page 6Your Dog Believes.
In Ghosts! !
When you see your dog looking
latently at something you cannot
Ne, he ie watching a ghost. By
*at I do not mean that dogs have
byehic gifts; on the contrary I
elieve it is the ghosts rather
than the dogs who introduce them- ..
selves.
My only explanation of the
Orange examples <•which follow is
that, like ourselves, some departed
spirits love dbgs 'while others can -
'not bear them; and the dog reacts
according to instinct writes Lt. -Col.
T. A. Lowe, D.S.O. M;C. in "Tit-
bits." a •
A few weeks ago I saw Willie,
my white bull terrier bitch, swerve
suddenly as though someone had
Made - a pass at her with a stick.
When it happened again I stood
transfixed, for we were in the mid-
dle of a ten -acre field and there
was not a soul in sight.
Invisible Enemy
I watched the dog, who had
stopped to watch something 'else.
She was puzzled but wary, with
a furrow of thought between her
ears, and once again} she bounced
back as if to avoid a blow. Then
she barked" fiercely and seemed to
face an invisible enemy, until • I
called her off.
Was this a ghost? ?asked myself;
E so, we must find evidence. I
marked the spot with a stick,
brought a growling, suspicious
Willie home for breakfast; then
I took out two of her puppies
called Winston and Wendy, and
walked them to the same spot.
It was a heavenly autumn morn-
ing. We were very happy, all three
of us, until Winston and Wendy
at full gallop, reached mystick.
Then, in their effort to avoid some-
thing that I couldn't see, both pups
fell over on their backs. When they
regained their feet they sped back
lo my protective shadow where, like
children, they remained until they
tad got over their fright
I have been back again since
,and with different dogs (perhaps
indeed, too often for the ghost's
peace of mind), but the phenom-
enon has not repeated itself. Look -
big • back now, my impression is
that our ghost was working with a
scythe in the field, and may have
been a farm labourer in his • pre-
vious existence, because the dogs
seemed to be escaping from a semi-
circular movement near the ground
rather than from a threatening stick.
I had a dog called Archie, a
Springer, who went with me every-
where; and sometimes we stayed at
a lovely old country house near
Oswestry where my host had ..n
Alsatian terrier called Tom. One
morning we were breakfasting in
a big -windowed room filled with
winter sunshine, and the dogs were
lying on the hearthrug at the fire.
They made a pretty picture and
Y happened to be watching them
when a door opened and both ani-
mals turned their heads to see who
had come in. Then it closed again,
u though a servant had changed
his mind and shut the door on the
outside.
Haunted Doorways
lvfy glance returned to the dogs,
but their eyes were following some-
body walking slowly across the
Room, and their tails were wagging
delightedly and thumping the floor.
?'hen another door, at the opposite
aide of the room, opened and stayed
open long enough for someone to
pass through. When this door closed
quietly, both dogs dropped their
heads, closed their eyes, and re-
sumed an interrupted nap in the
warmth of the fire.
Had I not seen the large old-
fashioned door handle turn as the
second door closed, the matter
might not have stuck in my mind.
ify host was deep in a newspaper,
co 2 said nothing. What seemed like
a manifestation might have been
due to a draught of air,
Outside there was wind as we
walked through a lane, and the dogs
scampered merrily. Then my host
maid: "Look it Tom and Archie."
They were standing quite still
only a few yards away from us,
looking upwards with tongues out
and tails wagging; then Archie
closed his eyes with pleasure, as
epaniels do when their heads and
tre1bety ears are caressed,
For a moment both dogs stayed
thus, greeting someone we'°"could
not see,
Not until then had I the courage
to tell my breakfast -room tale, but
racy host was not in the least sur-
prised. "Oh, yes, we have a ghost
around the place," he said. "I think
h is a woman, a very nice ghost
who loves dogs." Then he added in
a matter-of-fact sort of way, "Thank
goodness the dogs love her."
','Sorry, 1 can't as t you to dinner,
Maw and Paw Pm only work
Ing ;here."
There Was A Little Boy—And He Had . A Little . Curl—The picture which .little Billy
Gilbert, 3, stares at is not one of those "art studies" of himself. It's a pieture of his old
•man when he was at that particular stage of development. Mother and father reluctantly
decided that Billy was old enough to have his locks clipped. From the look on the kid's face
—right—one would imagine he wished they had come to the decision long before.
In a recent roundup of what might
happen in sports this coming year
we wrote something to the effect
—"when the real hockey—the play-
offs—begin etc." An indignant read-
er—all our readers - seem to be
either indignant or indifferent—
takes us severely to task for what
he considers a dirty and uncalled-
for crack at his favorite sport.
* * *
"What do you mean" he writes
—we take it that the writer is male,
although no name was signed to the
screed—" by insinuating that they
don't play real hockey, as you call
it, during the regular season? How
would you like to go out there and
get bruised and battered the way
some of the boys do, playoffs or
no playoffs?"
* * *
The answer to the second ques-
tion is that we wouldn't want any
part of it— not even if Old Father
Time should start swinging his
scythe in reverse, and lop off a
large proportion othe years that
have passed over our hoary head.
The lads certainly take their share
of bruising and battering—far too
much of it, a lot of ds thinlc—
and although they are well paid,
probably earn every cent they get,
in view of the wear and tear they
must endure.
* * *
In this connectioe we can't help
thinking of an article we read not
not so long ago about the opera-
tion of some of these fleets of big
transport trucks. The owner of one
such fleet took the view that a new
Diesel truck has just so many thou-,
sand, or hundred thousand, miles
of effective life in it. The quicker
you get that mileage out of it, the
sooner you get a return on your
investment— then go and shop for
a new one. In other words his view-
point was quite the opposite of
that of a private car -owner, who
wants his heap to last a reasonable
length of time,
* * *
And it seems to us as though the
modern type of hockey magnate
looks at a player in a manner some-
thing similar to the truck operator.
There's only so many miles of fast
dashes, quick stops, and so forth in
the athletes carcase, and whether
you get that mileage out in one sea-
son or ten—well, what's the odds so
long as the customers are happy and
keep coming back for more,
* * *
This may be all right for the type
of player they seem to be breeding
nowadays in wholesale quantities—.
the 180 to 200 pounders with enough
natural padding on their bones to
withstand countless crashes into the
dasher or onti the ice. But it's hard
on the less rugged boys—the Max
Bentley kind, to name one—many of
whom show signs of wear and tear
from .overwork .long .before .they
would .have ,clone . in days when
trickiness and clever stick handling
were'. definite assets . ... ... .. ....
* * *
Of course we know quite well
that such gripes are just a sign (hat
old age is creeping up on ua, and
that we haven't kept pace with latest
developments in the game. Well—
so be it; At all events we have, on
our side, one of Canada's most emin-
ent writers, Mr. Morley Callaghan,
who just a few days ago gave vent
to some words on hockey as elle is
presenly played,
* * *
loath the modern hockey
rules," quoth Mr. Callaghan, who
evidently' hasn't heard that voicing
such opinions in the fair city of
Toronto is about the same as calling
Joe Stalin a schmoe in the shadow
of the Kremlin, "They're playing
scramble -ball. We have lost the
beautiful pattern passing plays we
knew in the days of the old St.
Patrlcks. he plays were etched su
•
skilfully by those old masters of the
art of stickhandling it was something
akin to a great Canadian ballet on
ice,, if we had those old rules, the
kids would definitely go for them"
* * *
With a tip of the bonnet in the
direction of Mr. Callaghan for say-
ing it so much better than wecould
ever hope to do, we pass back to
the first query of our anonymous
correspondent. "What do we mean
by insinuating that they don't play
real hockey during the regular
season." * * *
Well, just possibly that was stat-
ing the matter somewhat harshly.
Still—this being Monday—we pick
up a paper and take a look at what
happened in the National Hockey
League over the weekend. There
were five games played on the
Saturday and Sunday evenings.
And of thoseifive, just sixty per
' cent—three to be precise—ended in
a draw. Nor was there any mention
of overtime being played.
* * *
That means that the players—
avidly keen to win and almost
breaking their hearts over a defeat,
so we are given to understand by
the busy press agents—were quite
satisfied to settle for draw. And
the customers=who back a few
years ago believed that their ad-
mission fee entitled them to a game
of hockey—were just as satisfied to
settle for sixty minutes of entertain-
ment, * * *
That, in a nutshell, is what a lot
of us old fogies find wrong with
hockey—and to a minor degree—
wrong with many other modern
athletic pastimes. They have devel-
oped into entertainment rather than
sport—and it's no wonder that more
and more south of the border are
becoming content to view games
from a comfortable seat miles away,
by leans of television instead of be
ing there in person to root their
heads off for some favorite.
Fired from Job
May Make Fortune
A former French waiter, who
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because his dress suit was badly
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for, a combined cleaning and press-
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but slightly larger, and, of course,
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In the centre of the iron there is
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Only the rear part of theiron
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Adhesive tape for insulating elec-
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for gumming up envelopes and torn
stationery have been in use for
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man with s roll of adhesive tape
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