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Page 12 Friday, March 10, 1978 % x +) \ Well dag nab it. If I ain't back here writin' another column. I just can't figure how these Castor boys can let the wool get pulled-over their eyes like this. I can't write; never could. Sure, I can string a few words together to kinda make sense but not like your Beave' and your Mark. But here we go again anyhow. Do you mind last time I talked on birds and how they don't flock to feeders except for your common everyday ones like sparrows? And do you mind how I asked anybody out there with a notion on how I could get your fancy kinds to come should fill me in on it? Well, I had a couple of wisecrackers tell me that if I wanted more birds around I shouldn't show my face 'cause that's what scares them off. I guess we writers just have to put up with that kinda sass. Anyhow, this face ain't so bad. My mother -- she's goin' on 94 years now -- she likes it well enough. Just look at it starin' out at ya there; it's really kinda cute, ain't it. But to get back to the subject at hand, I did get one letter from an Embrun gal - at least I figure it's a gal - who signed "Anna". Ole' Anna had a lot to say on the subject, dang near as much as I did. To keep with the mood, she even made sure she got a bird stamp on her envelope. The stamp shows a "falco peregrinus" whatever in tar- nation that is. My Italian ain't all that good. Anna starts with a_ little sympathy - which I appreciate - then gets right on into it: ~ Castor Earl More Bird talk 'Dear Castor Earl. You poor, poor man. I know just how you feel about those bird not coming to your feeders. The same happened to me a few years back. before I read an article in a gardening magazine. You see, you have to put out the food in the fall, about the time sunflowers ripen. That is when the birds are looking for future feeding places and then stick close to them in the winter months. The bluejay and grosbeaks like sunflowers. I plant some in the garden just for them. It's so beautiful to see a gorgeous bluejay hanging upside down under the head of a sunflower. A little warning though. Watch your family cat. When the birds are busy feasting and fighting, our cat managed to walk off with two bluejays and a grosbeak. My feeder is in the wrong place." And that's how Anna sees it and she has a lot of tips I'm goin' to take up next fall. I wonder how those jays hang upside down on a sunflower like that? I think I'll try it sometime. And that warnin' about the family cat really hits the mark. Over to home we got the biggest, meanest ole' tom ya ever laid eyes on. But I don't think ole' Butch would even bother with none of them prissy jays and grosbeaks. I figure Butch would rather tackle hisself one of them falco peregrinuses and I don't doubt for a minute but that he'd get the best of it. Like I said, I don't know what in blazes a peregrinus is but it looks tough enough in_ the pictures. But not as tough as ole' CASTOR REVIEW Science Fair: Grade 8 student Wendy Stone fair held recently at Metcal i ' displays stamps from around the world at science ' ce *butch. J anticipation of a good time. It was all part of the fun at the Russell Inter Carnival. Hayride: These children couldn't wait to climb aboard these trailers stacked with hay in yi vite bp, fATREMOUILLE Tel.: 443-3666 EMBRUN Huffy C.C.M. Targa, list price, $149.95 Empire 10 Speed racer Howden 10 speed racer C.C.M. Thunder Road C.C.M. Laser, Junior Racer Huffy 72's Moto-Cross (slightly different than pictured) PRE-SEASON SPECIALS ON BICYCLES Targa... We have a complete line of C.C.M. Rapido, Howden and Beekay Bicycles . $95.00 $85.00 C.C.M. Super Tack Skates, reg. $120.00 ....... $105.00 $90.00 C.C.M. Nylon Tacks, reg. $89.95 ............... $84.95 $85.00 Mista, F068. $47.05 1. eae $38.00 - $60.00 Junior Tacks, reg. $57.95 ..............000000e $49.95 - $95.00 Tacks, OE MI no ole Ody. 5s «dae hen ee 48s $92.00 Daoust Roadrunner, reg. $41.95 ............... $31.95 Daoust No. 115 Junior, reg. $29.95 ............. $24.95 END OF SEASON i, SUPER . ae Mt NOW Super Brooms Claude Genest National $40.00 doz. - $39.00 doz. - $3.75 ea. $37.00 doz. - $3.75 ea. BROOMBALL SUPPLIES $4 ea. LP au.