Page 6, December 20, 1978 - North Shore News fe : : oe _ eo AS pos os | = _ 7 oe 7 OS The "remainder. of this Poe hilarious and biting: satire is]. - .. concerned. with . Peter.’ --Waterhole’s frantic efforts to: -- find out “how it. had- ‘all * happened” -- and how to make the now restive — animals of .The . Swamp — contented and” docile once ...- again. . His” ‘search for a solution’ ‘introduces us to a _tich cast . of well-known. “If you have a friend or felative who's depresse a~ “about the: stat -of the nation -- and “for whom, at. . this late date, you still haven't found a gift-- both ~_ of you-can stop. worrying ight 1 now. For a. Cost of 6. 95 or thereabout ts. = | That's - a pretty - modest inhabitants), Frogs, Beavers, oe price: ‘to pay nowadays even Gophers, Marmots and - fora solution. to .your gift - Otters, not to mention some a problem. Considering that it unhappy’ ‘lobsters | living On el also” brings. the -sure-fire _ the: country’s - far” €astern 7 recipe “for solving Canada’s “seaboard. | | - characters. from both. the problems as. well, the. | -. present ‘and. the ‘past. ‘But in: bargain . is. fantastic == ‘The capital of The Swamp - the° end: it-:is. the: Ordinary: _ consisting, as it does, of the jg_ called Nottalot.and the latest offering by those zany country’s present ruler isa satirical ‘geniuses Stanley Frog) named Peter Burke and Roy Peterson. _ Waterhole (try. translating it ‘into’ your school French). . “The book is call Swamp The. scene forthe ..new . Song and those who have. Swampian ‘epic is succinctly only. recently got their ribs set in the book's opening out. of plaster after reading paragraphs: | _ Burke’s. and~ Peterson’ Ss. oe earlier. tales of The Swamp | “The Swamp was. ‘going will need no further .en- down the drain. -couragement to head for . ,, ° the nearest bookstore. . — Unemployment was - Animals -of | The. “Swamp. themselves. “who |: ‘achieve. - their = own: “ salvation, .” ine —_ dependently ¢ of Nottalot. a “Journalist - “Burke | and - cartoonist. Peterson. make a. os) unique... ‘partnership _ for >>. telling this -kind of" story. g :, . Burke, now. publisher of The oe Nanaimo » Times, ‘one. of. ° B.Cs leading. _ community | po - mewspapers, | still, ee) Gide | west, and at the Swampian ene ae the 3 many tor hi : The s is th | ‘Marcu, while. The “Bureau of | Statistics, Sylvia “CBC’s 11 p.m. “National”. © wamp_ is. that’ P; ” Ostrich’s figures showed that and his earlier rep : ; mythical country . that Swampian unit of currency, and his earlier: ‘reporting: as ‘stretches from sea to sea instead of floating, had sunk. it was time to bail out..: - "top CBC corresp ndent. o immediately. north of the Rene Terrifique was making or - 49th parallel. It is populated off with the Shallow End of “In the e capital at Nottalot, ;