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I wJL p.Vi I were ah lisl'i rr.c>,
V/iih nothing «*- ie to do,
But. sloop beneath the Northern Lights
w.nri iggle, igglo oo*'
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Fade;y Kir^ rapv.'ts that She Copper River is now frozeiM**,®**
strong rjn\: tc no:.;', up a Py. locomotive# If we can get the J»azy
bum oat cf hi3 rojk• ng“chair he may go over the river and out
• some wood.. Tb:.s cold winter hae left our wood piles in the same
ha. condition that the U * S« budget, is in, quite- a*deficit* j ejj;
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- Myrt Miller is one of the gals here who lives1 alone andjJJJcesir
1. i ; ,it« The other day we came upon her standing in the snow and l .
• -seemingly talking to herself.»nd wo sez to ourself, "Poo^vjiyrt, the
'long winter is gettin* her, a bad case of cabin fever#1* But then *
we found it was not quite as bad as wo feared, sho was; talking to
her birds- She puts out a variety of food and every day when, It is
not loo co3d all the magpies and chickadees ariund here come into ^
her back yard. When it is more then thirty be]*ow the birds Just
hole up and do not appear*•- Myr-t operates the Spook Nook hotel
r.* and ro&teurant in summer and is supposed to bo quite a cook, but
1 i;.that!,s for the birds# " * ' * *' ••
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' v j ' M the Old Cynic has so sagoly remarked before; mind was given
jto'mhn 10 .juctify his desires. It is a pretty dumb man who oannot
ration*! v?.i wha-ever is to his advantage. '
•* T'li’c*; ii enorm^n who' fish salmon with nets wanted to get rid tf
the trap° because they very reasonably wanted the fish for them
solyes^ But t*iey claimed they wanted to get rid of the traps because
'they Y/aiMol tu conserve the fish runs by better esoapement. That
BDUhdetJ jouwor* I3uc> talk about Jolly hypocracy.
■«.n«i jow the 'fisherman union is beginning to realize that
closing tho 'iie'n traps will put a lot of canneries out of business*
«*nd t'hi e will 13 0 Jvi«t a.holl of a lot of fish escape to the ;
spawning lakes.«TUe fish union should be very happy as this ta what
they have -aid they wore driving for*-., Are thoy happy?, Hell no/
Now the ud in has- r? >. trouble rove: M.ug it3olf and deciding that
t.rflnp ^run 1 a no* be c.oted this v* a .»becuU.’j more fisherman and
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