ty -comes and goes. I remember the

vintage years.

“FIND four-leaf clovers. No, -
no, it’s not a contract thing, I
- don’t take orders, and it’s

also not a talent you can con-

_ bank, either, :

I's just ‘that ever since I was

ve maybe 16-years- -old I've had this

“affinity, with four-leafs. Mind you, it

ist summer I found a hundred,
over the weeks — that was about:
934, 35° But those were.growing by
“the paths and trails that we used in-
the North. We hadn't got paved
streets and sidewalks’ which are pret-
Y discouraging of four-leafs.

-T’continued to find them as]
grew older, tisually one at-a time, ;
though there were stretche: of my
ife when | thought I'd lost the touch °
foreve . After ail, they carry this rep-
utation for. bringing good luck; eh?
How come, I wonder.” Brobably: from

times who bestowed mythic powers”

on any” ‘sport of nature. “Eye of newt:
of .

“what you might call a real mother-.
lode of the shy little things It'was.

during the years that | worked as ny
husbund’s opcrations clerk, so all
my daily walks were perforce taken

“after dinner.

I'd walk up to Grand Boulevard
and back, or we'd together tackle “
the Nineteenth Street hill — pretty
formidable. When that palled, I'd
head west — I'd discovered a wood-
en stair in the neighborhood of the
Armories building that was cut into
the creek-side. (Would that be »
Mosquito at the bottom?)

It tickled me, because my route
to school for.10 years of my youth

- Was via just such a dirt-and-log

* staircase. It took me back. That one.
was longer and steeper, I think, but
that may be just because I'm longer”

_and steeper now, too.

wel joved from North Van's

Anyway, to my amazement there
were four-leaf clovers all the way
down, at the edge of almost every
step. Every time I went to walk
there I'd pick one or two, amazed at
their constant bounty, just a couple
for godd fortune each time. ”

I haven't been down there now

. . for years, | wonder if someone else
‘is harvesting them? Maybe that

then-vacant area has been built on?
Bvt no, that. must be park surely.
How about taking a look for me, if:
you" re.in the neighborhood?

After that experience of overload

“1 fell into a dry period for a long.,

time. Life. took charge and demand:

~. ed attention to various worthy and: :
" serious exercises and I didn’ i stum:

» ble over a single four-leaf. Oh,

- maybe one or two, but they ceased

to accrue on m Teftigerator door i in
any number, «("!

“The dearth in part was because |
Ith
Street to West Vancouver and.

“there for almost ‘a dozen years :

-and to tell the truth, F:don’t recs ‘all

ever seeing a single’ four-Icaf while

resident therein. In due course we

noved back to this side of the
bridge and life Went on’ with the’
Occasional ur-leat clover r popping

up, no big deal.
We moved from a townhouse
with stairs into a highrise with an

- elevator —~ that sort of necessary

adjustment al our age. But where we
are now situated, on the up-side of
Keith Boulevard immediately east of
Lonsdale, | have to tell you, right in
this neighborhood there is an actual
plethora of four-leaf clovers, ;
A profusion; it verges on the vul-

- gary some tiny, some mid-size, but

many. many four-leafs.
The colony I’ speak of grows in
the grassed boulevard that borders

the south side of the most westward
clutch of buildings that house B.C.
Tel. When [ ga out our back door
I'm across the street from the back -
of their place, on 8th Street, and it
has just this moment occurred to me

"— are all those four-leafs therefore

the property. of the telephone com-
pany? Have they four-leaf clover
rights written into their lease, per-
haps? i, .

And I've been trespassing? Next
thing you'll hear, 'm_in the |
hoosegow. |

Spring me with a fourteat

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clover, maybe’: ues

Well, now that I've revealed all
my arcane secrets about where you
can find piles of good luck for the
picking, you too will have your. |
refrigerator stuck up with four-leafs

Just for the.record, though, I've
been lucky all my life,

‘Sometimes good fortune isn't
recognized until after thé event —
sometimes it consists of the things.
that didn't go your way, things you
maybe longed for. You know that
now toa, don’t yau? -

And we, you and I, have been
remarkably lucky in our life’s tim-
ing — we're on the way oul now, *
over the hill, knowing it. will never.
be us good again.

“medication- aking. If. you are
_dooking fora’ phar
you can’t ‘do be: