Pete Pent^f la a citizen ©f credit and renown,
A worn #ut Road Commission stiff, #f famous Chitina town.
He lives beside a crooked road that he and Rickey made,
,»nd for which dear )ncle has paid and paid and paid#
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,*nd sometimes when Pete's spirits are getting rather low,
He feels he must have water, so to the spring he'll go.
Ho takes hi3 little bucket Qnd goes squeaking o'er the snow,
He doesn't hesitate a bit, tho it's forty four below.
4,nd yest^raay when he got there and dkpped his bucket in,
.» film of ice lay o'er tho pool but it was clear and thin.
Fete gave tho ice a gentle rap and broke a pot size hole,
,*nd as he did, from frigid bush, two shining black birds stole*
They ^avo a flip arid flutter and dived into the pool,
, They thought the bush so awful cold, the water barely cool#
They ran upon the gravel, picking bugs, and seemed to say
"It's nice and warm in here and this is whore wo'11 stay*
Now Pete had never aeon a bird that could stay down under water,
He stared in wondering disbelief, and then began to totter
He filled his little bucket and hastened from the spring,
The air was biting frosty, but ho didn*t feel a thing*
•The Sun v/as slowly setting o’er the hilltops, far away.
Filling all the land with beauty at the close of that cold day*
As ho scooted for his cabin, his mind in wild carousal, hli
Something seemed to strangely whisper, '‘Ousel, Ousel, Ousel.".
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Note: Tho*Gazetto offered a prize of a free trip to the asylum at^
Valdez to the.one who could write the worst" bit of po^ry, The.
writer of .the above seems to have won*
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...la ska is now a ST#iTS,and whether it i3 good or bad it( is .
irr jvocable• Wo-had bettor make the most of the. situation#
> 4.1asi.ons should start the day, and ovary day with the prayer:
\ "Good Lord give us the strongth^ and courage to change the things
that can and should be changed, and the patience and fortitude to i
endure the things thac cannot bo changod, and the wisaon^to know* /
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.aid wo wi 1 - got nowehere repoating that asini.no expression,, *
"ho tho imposslhio"» The good and useful ward impossible means |
that something cannot be done, and,there just a hell of a lo\ of^
things that bo dons whether we'like it or r>ot. It is , . ;
utterly aii»xy tc ouy,Hdo the impossible"# • . i j.n <.j
One of the impossible tnings is to create f acilities ;for ja$
great influx of tourists this year with the f inanees ;that are,>911
available# Our idea ?f tho epitome of silliness is tq ^dvise‘the ; gsj
other fellow to "bite off more than he can show, an^ttien^hew it#* :
11 ~i3 'always the . other follow who is to do this# ir.n# Jruioons *
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>» Tho Old Cynic says he would have married the gifl! if oJ}g<t*Qy»
"I been-able to buy a hcmo near a school* ; , • 4 Joailfl
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, , The United States Ney/s and V/$rld Report says: / • .-.wW»r. -Iwdfl
i:jt THEY «*$KuD’FOR IT. Alaska and Mr-Egan asked ffrr 5tatehoo^-an^, n*»w^
they ;ar;o getting it. They Remain enthusiastic, but realize
thero are multitudes of difficulties. The long-range QuAlQQKf^ijB
bright*- Pu ' -v.e .oarly years are to test tho capabilities of a new
Governor Ja . now and difficult situation* < , i-fyik1}.*
I “Farm land increases less than a spook, relatively, y.laskd
I adds 20; JOG acres to tho 46 other States* 400 million acref ftf,v .gjS
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\i *Ur and Mrs’ Hunsakor of Lnwor Tonsina returned homo frqm^ifioir
trip.outside. They reported the hiway and weather-conditions'w$ro
..good• They found Calif, very warm and hurried back-to cool'i^ff*
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Jack \/iIoon of Uilson ,4r Service has kept busy this winter t*y
d9in^ Qddc and and a at his Tobc.v Oc.p, and rumodolling his plar*e«
By the lo.ka of T.hiujc some of Uf. or\n • stand some remodelling
by taken off x»hi.i r?i r.'t^r1 s <oun .• Josh \ s a utrupgla
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