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Another thing that puts me off is the type of people who hunt. There is a large percentage of highâ€"grade morons among them. I‘ve just read in the Wiarton I‘ve been able to fight off the temptation for several years now. I used to be a fair shot. There‘s many a tree, fenceâ€"post and tin can in the country that can testiâ€" fy to that and I used to enjoy hunting. It really was pleasant to get away from the old battleâ€" axe for a few hours on a loveâ€" ly, autumn day. But I‘ve never been a fanatic. Any tendency I had toward beâ€" coming one was cured forever last time I went deer hunting. I got lost twice, was almost shot once (he hit the hound instead of me), and was dam‘ nearly drowned on the way home from & remote island. in a blizzard, a high wind, and a leaky boat. Hunting is for the birds. literâ€" @lly. In proportion to numbers, there are more hunters killed, wounded, or disabled for life from heart attacks and arthritis, than birds. + Quite a few of the chaps on our staff who are keen hunters urge me to join them. This means standing around in 2 swamp and chestâ€"high boots after walking an hour to get there, gazing sullenâ€" ly for hours at a sullen sky filled with blackbirds and swallows and nonâ€"existent ducks, Getting back to hunters, you‘ll never hear that earnest, serious teller of tales admitting that he couldn‘t hit the side of a barn with a handful of beans from three feet. Or that he‘s as quiet in the bush as a tank on a hot tin roof. No, there‘s nothing wrong with him. It‘s the gods, or his gun jammed, or sheer bad luck. It‘s as dull as listening to someone relate what happened on every hole of his golf game, or every hand of bridge. He would have shot par or made his grand slam if, if, if ... I don‘t mind the stories when they‘re funny, or big, fat lies. But there‘s nothing more boring. than listening to a hunter telling you in â€"deadly earnest the entire story of how he would have got his bag of ducks, or bagged his deer, if the fates and the weaâ€" ther, and anything eise he can think of, had not conspired against him. teld, they become a bigger lie Or a little funnier. This is the time of year when the hunting stories are flying TEACHERS A. C. CAPON â€" Scripture Union Church, Toronte C. E, LADDS â€" St. George‘s Church, London H,. S. D. ROBINSON â€" Little Trinity Church, Toronto W. J. 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I‘ve no quarrel with them. But I think most of them would be just as happy with an unloadâ€" ed gun or a camera. Then there are the "hunters" who go off for a good drunk in the bush. It gives them a chance to play poker, grow a beard, curse, belch and do all sorts of manly thinks like that. They could do the same thing by checking into a motel room for a week. But they enjoy wearing big boots and rough clothes and making rude noises. Then they come home and let their wives push them around like puppets for the other 51 weeks. 4 A couple of years ago, two chaps I know went out to the local golf course and shot every black squirrel in sight. This takes a lot of nerve, stamina, and bushâ€" lore;> walking around a golf course, _ slaughtering © halfâ€"tame squirrels, with three ounces of meat each on them. is there to say about "hunters" who shoot swans? Echo a story about two "hunters" who shot and killed two wild white swans that had made their home near a beach resort and were a delight to cottagers. What BRIDGEPORT GLASS SERVICE CUSTOM CUT MIRRORS TABLE TOPS STORM WINDOW REPAIRS PHONE LEN VAN EYK 745â€"0826 GLASS NEEDS 10 p.m 23rd for all your _ Developers * Y\ lose $94,523 Major Hoidings and Developâ€" ments Ltd. report a $94,523 loss, He points out that unadjusted profit during the first six months of 1968 amounted to $15,669 or 11 cents a share. first six months of the year. Blame was attributed to the lack of serviced building lots and initial rental problems at Conesâ€" toga Towers apartment building. The loss, however, is expected to be offset by profits later in the year when the company‘s supply of housing lots is replenished, acâ€" cording to K. H. Christopher, executive assistant to the presiâ€" dent. 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