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each night.

: ‘page 14- September 21, 1977. ‘North Shore News.

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A ghost visits me
A trivial

spirit; ‘a: mere _pip-

_ squeak. A fragment of
ectoplasm that perches _
on -my. pillow in that.
fieeting moment bef: ©

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“And in the end bunk the.

‘Head. Climber. sits ‘crossed-._ the fittest—and he has saved

legged, patiently ‘pursuing —

the. job he started’ -last

ween waking 7 and’.
steeping.
This” “tittle” “ane _

cfeeps - upon me,
velvet feet, without
clanking chains

is an old friend.
Why?

Because when I surrender

my head to the pillow, he

forces me. to: wander back-
ward through half a centu
picking bits and pieces from:
the chaff of a lifetime: - © ~

WHICH . DRIVES: ”

STORY FROM THE FRAG-
MENTS THAT REMAIN,
BEFORE I DRIFTED INTO
SLEEP!

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n F rinstance, _ one million
people Of this
country—drifting,
fused. THE UNEMPLOYED!

So my little ghost takes me

by the hand, back to a
railway siding in the foothills.

of the Rockies, on a warm

and sunny Sunday in August, :

1938. -

In the bunk car of the work
train, peace reigns—distur-
bed only by the roar of a 5800
Mountain Locomotive, work-
ing two hundred pounds of
steam through the cylinders
and up the stack while it purs.
on brute power for the Big
Hill, hustling.
behind. _

PEACE REIGNS! “The

bunk car on the side track ©
ceases to shudder from the
pounding driving rods. A |

and
ghostly moans...yet' he - —

‘ME
NUTS THE FOLLOWING .
DAY, CONSTRUCTING .A™

foundiand..

“bewild-:
ered; desperate and con-—

‘sixty cars

‘By Bul Clark

| ‘ATM il

: directs the damp- eared kids
‘and a. half-dozen Linemen

who will. dig holes — in

hard-pan and _ solid granite —
‘for the poles that support a
thread of gleaming ‘copper.
through. - the.» Rockies and.

the
’ the

across
through

Prairies and

Come By ‘Chance,

He is GOD!

And. for each hour of the.
ten. that make our working. ©
day, he_ will: receive. “FORTY.

“FIVE CENTS!

The little ghost on my
pillow asks, ‘‘What does he
do, this man who < sits

cross-legged on his bunk.

through the long weekend...
and yet is a God?”’

The answer is simple:

His family i is five hundred::
miles away. Six months of. -
the year he will rot see them.’ ..

‘His only communion with |
wife and kids will be-the pay |
cheque, from which he will

take sufficient for two pack-
ages af tebaccs.

hundred thousand tons of the ©

lifeblood of the ©. country
clatters over the rail-joints. —

He

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If that i is not t enough to last

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pay. day, he will

eviscerate the cigarette butts.

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worn overalls...from which, ©
_... with the aid of a darning

needle and string from the

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My little ghost will not let
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‘is’ the

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concise, © as: befits - a. mind
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