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page 12, October 20, 1976 - North Shore News

A-wile back this woman frum the. guv mint
showd up at Pete Svensen’s an ses she is makin’ a
survey on immigrashun an asts Pete if he is havin’ -

problims with Ethniks.

Pete thinks her over a wile an

then he ses he has had
_ an Swedes = an
Ukrainyuns but the ‘ony
problim he had wus a fambly
frum sum place calit Glasgow
an he cudn’t unnerstand a

" dam word they wus sayin’.

- just ten bucks pinned to it”

- ses cum to think of it he did

Pete ses he ain’t never
seen one of them -Ethniks an
in fact never heard of the
place an where the hell is it?

She tries to explain an ses
it has to do with people wot
are colored diffrunt an Pete

have,trubble onct.

She asts him how cum? an-
Pete ses he got this letter
wich ast him to look after'a
kid fer as long as the money.
lastid an then put the littie

-feller on the bus fer home.
Pete ses he usual don’t take .

kids becus they are a pain in
a place he can’t tell her but
he took this one fer: a cupple

reasons. |

_ GROCERY BAG”

Fer one, he ses, the letter

wus writ purty bad.on a...

chunk tore’ frum a. grocery
bag” an fer anuther, it had

“with no address."

a

Well, sir, Ses Pete, wen -
“the bus pullt in this little

: feller got off an there: wus |

_— to inhabit the lake.

#

‘them et the sangwiches.

' : . .

‘only three’ things to bother
about - he had a-smile you

jest wudn’t believe ana
paper. bag with home-mde
sangwiches an a sleepin’ bag
wot. looked like it wus: left:
over frum Napoleon’s’ Re-
treat frum Moscow an it still’
had the Saivashun Army tag

_on it fer-a dollar an fifty

cents. _

Pete-ses he. didn’ t know

“wot to do, but Old’ Baldy

fixed that wen they goi to the

t,. ranch becus he cum over an

nuzzled the kid’s ear wich
Baldy don’t. do fer ‘jest
‘anybody an then they set on.
the porch an ‘the three of.

_ blacker'n tar. wen

Itcum real easy after that,

ses Pete, an the kid wus
‘bringin’ eggs frum the hen
- house or workin’ the pump

- handle or helpin’ Jake Menzl_ |
milk the cows an onct in a °* |
- wile they wud. dig sum —

. ‘ .

worms an go fishin’.

GHOST STORIES |

Wen: the week cum to an

.end, ses Pete, they. set down ..

together an writ the kid’s
mother an tolt her .it:.wus
goin’ purty gud and the kid
wud stay sum more an then

Pete ses he made a campfire:

back frum the house an tolt
sum ghost stories an Pete ses

you shud have seen the eyes.
on that kid, becus they wus
big as dinner plates an then

they roastid sum weenies on
a stick.

-Purty soon, ses Pete; the
summer cum to an end, like
it allus does wich is too soon,

‘an him an Old Baldy took the |
kid an put-‘him on the bus fer -

home. Pete ses he tuk them

> ten dollar bills wich had been
: comin’ regular every week
-‘and he pinned ’em on the

-kid’s shirt an the kid cried an
give him.an Baldy a hug. an

‘then he wus gone.

. So the puv "mint. lady’ ses

“wot wus the trubble? an Pete --
‘ses there wus really two |
-trubbles - Old Baldy keeps . |
-goin’ down fer to meet the —

. bus...an-he jest about went

“nuts: tryin’ to. figger. wot to Bory

‘use:so ithe kid wudn’'t get
-sunburnt, '. becus : he wus

“in
.. widely separated areas of the
* 80-mile’ fong lake. a

almost. -simultarieously _

There ‘are: ‘wild and: won-

derful’ theories about what _

Ogopogo is and how he.came

One hypothesis: states that
hie. ‘is. ‘the offspring. of a
_ prehistoric creature whose

 9gg,. frozen in; an_ice-age.
granny, thawed. and: -hatched .

= dislodged into: warm
ake water.

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