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PADDY KIliG’S DISH WHK.-:L
Hcund and round the fi3h wheel turns,
soeir.ing content with the water it churns.
Mo v; and tl.cn c. sr.lnon gets caught in th dip,
Up, up it goes, th ,n down thru the slip/
Into the box to lie there and wo.it,
Dor the wheel to cone up with its spawning mate.
Dor 1 tis honoynoon tin- for this wonderful fish,
hut he v/incis up ingloriously in somebody^ dish.
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Perhaps a big Kin" ^.t.i caught in the dip,
He flops ' x: d lie flounders, it’s the end of hi3 trip.
And now P* day shoulders his big bag of fish,
The’ro *ch nost wonderful eating a person could* wish.
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Recently a nan from Texas ceno~Tn hero on a visit. Ho
inquired about a missionary he* hod not when ho was hero
a few y.nr3 ago. This missionary was, 0.3 nil missionaries
should be,plump and tender, fried chicken find unshod
potatoes, ._•
ho told him wo are not sura where this*' :
missionary is now but that wo did know that* he moved f £on
here to Kodiak Island,
One day this missionary wont of! across'the tundra* /■;
30eking whom he night "savo". As*.he walked • along -
meditating on on the probable number of staps there would"'
in his crown when he joined the celestial choiy, ho
sucu eiily net an enormous ‘"‘ocliak Heap. Seeing his^
plight v/ns hopeless ho fell on his knees in ftfizious’prayer
A few moments later he wr.3 greatly comforted' tov*
3 0e the bear on its knee*3 beside him. ■'* v * j
‘'Dear Brother Bear, "said the relieved missionary* !
"Hoy/ de] ightful it is to join you in prayer when,, a
moment ago i feared for my life." * •,'
• ‘‘Don't interrupt, "growled th Burr, "I!in;Jsaying:
grnc~," __
We have had beautiful, warn weather so far in June.
mil th- gardens are nuking a good start. The CABDaGD afcd
turnip3 should be usable early in August. * £ ' 3-ISj
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'• Sone kind of r. virus of the kind generally spoken of ns’itho ,,fl'U,,,
hr.3 been hitting various locr.l-.tio3 r.nd individurrla in Alo.skn* during
thj p-st xhw months. It so. ms to tu.ncrr.lizo the worn out old stiffs
the worsost r.nd the Old Cynic wns no exception. For the p.rst three,
weeks ho hr.s felt so distresaud nnd Ir.zy md sick he thought you \
wou would like to knov; how terribly -br.d he felt so you could
sympathize \nd uv^n feel r. little b~d too. But then he recalled what
hi3 old neighbor, I.ir.rk Twr.in, br.ck in Missouri used to sr.y, "Don’t i
tell »other people r.bout your troubles. Most of then don’t care and / •
the rest rpc glr.d you finally got whr.t you hr.d coning.'' J
So wo decided not to mention our flu,
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Vvo V.,; hr .Vo Just ruf.d r.n article “in “the Chicago '^ribuno'by
hiss Jean bond of Junur.u v/ho hna boon in Alaska for r. year. Shu knows
hoi* Alaska bettor than son.. people v/ho hr.Vo boon ho re 40 yotfra.
It woulu bo v.'oiiCwrfjl e; ing for Alr.sk?. if r 11 our writers were as
realistic, hen *:t e'e •; :rvi.ng ns she is.