Zurich Herald, 1949-01-20, Page 6our Dog Believes
1:111 Ghosts! !
When you see your dog looking
patently at .omething you cannot
pee, be is watching a ghost. By
that I do not mean that dogs have
psychic gifts; on the contrary I
ibelieve it is tite ghosts rather
Than the dogs who introduce 'them-
selves, -
My only explanation of the
strange examples which fallow is
that, like ourselves, some departed
spirits love dogs while others car: -
not bear them; and the dog reacts
according to instinct writes Lt. -Col.
T. A. Lowe. D.S.O. M.C. fn "Tit-
bits."
A few weeks ago I saw Willie,
xey white bull terrier bitch, swerve
suddenly as though someone had
snade a pass at her with a stick.
When it happened again I stood
transfixed, for we were in the mid -
elle 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
oars, 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? 1. asked myself;
if 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 thein to the sante spot.
It was a heavenly autumn 'morn -
bag. We were very happy, all three
of us, until Winston and Wendy
at full gallop, reached my stick.
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
to my protective shadow where, like
eisildren, they remained until they
had got over their fright.
I have been back •again since
and with different dogs (perhaps
indeed, to often for the ghost's
peace of mind), but the phenom-..
anon has not repeated itself. Look-
ing 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 an
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
3 happened to -be watching them
when a door opened and both ani-,
teals turned their heads to see who
had come in. Then it closed again,
as though a servant had 'changed
his mind and shut the door on the
outside.
Haunted' Doorway 1
My 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 door.
Then another door, at the opposite
side of the room, opened and stayed
open long enough for someone to
pass through. When this door closed
quietly, both dogs dropped 'their
beads, 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
night not have stuck in my mind.
My host was deep in a newspaper;
so I said nothing. What seemed like
s. 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 at 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
spaniels do when their heads and
velvety ears are caressed.
For a moment both dogs stayed
thus, greeting someone we could
xaot see.
Not until then had 1 the courage
to tell ray breakfast -room tale, but
;Day host was not in the least sur-
prised. "Oh, yes, we have a ghost
around the place," he said. "I think
it is a woman, a very nice ghost
who loves dogs." Then he added in
snatter-of-fact sort of.way,,",Thank
;goodness the dogs love her."
1 -mi
"Sorry, 1 cams; ask you to dinner,
Maw and Pti.W I'm only work.,
log here."
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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 picture of his old
rnan 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 conte 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 seen 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 w otildn'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 of the 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 us thinks—
and although they are well paid,
probably earn every cent they get,
in view of the wear and tear they
must endure. •
* * *
In this connection 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 news one. In other words bus 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 ata 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,
,k * :k
This may be all right for the type
of player they seem to he breeding
nowadays in wholesale quantities-
the 180 to 200 pounders with enough
natural padding on their bones to
withstand countess 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 .done .in days when
trickiness and clever stick handling
were definite assets, . , , . ......
* *
Of course we know quite well
that such gripes are jut a sign that
old age Is creeping fp on us, 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 abs she'is
presenly played.
* *. *
"I 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 scllmoe in the shadow,.
oil the ,I(renilin- "They're playing
seramble-ball. We have lost The
beautiful:pattern passing plays vvc'
knew in the days of the old St.
Patricks. he plays were etclte(1 •s', '
skilfully by those old masters of .the
art of stickhandling it was something
akin to a great Canadian ba11.6t on
ice. 1f 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 we could
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 or. the
Saturday and Sunday ' evenings.
And of:those five, just sixty per
cent—three to be precise --elided in
a draw. Nor was there anjention
of overtime being played.
k * *
That means that the players--
• avidly keen to: win and almost
breaking their hearts 'over *.defeat, -
so we :are given- to understand - by
the 'busy press agents—were quite
satisfied to settle for a draw. And
the customers—who back . •a few
years ago believed that their ,ad-
mission fee eititied them to a game
of hockey -were just as satisfied to
.settle for sixty minutes of entertain-
ment. *- 'k *
That, in a nutshell,. is whata 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 ofi the border are
becomiug- cons:ciit to view games
from a comfortable seat miles away,
by feans of television instead of be
ing there in pefson to root their
heads off for some favorite.
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May Make Fortune
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because his dress suit was badly
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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 ' the iron
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confident that it will have a world
market,
Adhesive tape for insulating elec-
tric wire and adhesiv paper tape
for gumming up envelopes and torn
stationery haves been in use for
many years, but the metal worker
and the manufacturer of metal goods
has been looking for scientists for
something' that could. be used to
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trouble of ,welding.
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and the .Mining and Manufacturing
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