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Only a day or two be- fore I had walked over the now desolate spot on the edge of the « downs. Wheeled over by plover and played upon by rabbits, only some slight irregularities of the turf that now covered the site told where once a great house stood. The English public is faith- ful in the main to horses, and does aot greatly care to ride a bear or an ostrich. Pink pigs with blue ribbons round their necks, so popular in France, where the whole roundabout will consist of placid pink pigs, I have never met in England, though there are few more pleasing sights than M. le Maire, M. le Notaire, and the rest of the principal inhabitants of a small French town, clad in . straw hats, 'long black frock- coats, and yellow boots well turned up at the toes, gravely circling round, eagh on the back of the pinkest and shiniest of pigs. The great farmyard cock, again, crested and open-beaked, with wings outstretched and one brawny, scaly( leg flung far be- hind him, is not so usual as In France -- which perhaps is natural. It is the old English Instinct to bestride a horse and not a griffin, , . . Nothing that Dickens did in this line was truer to life than Mrs. Grudden, who is still to be ~ found attached to many ecir- cuses, contendedly doing all the odd ~jobs that seem tobe no- body's business in particular, and a solid line or two of her own as well, Such 2 one we came across once in a little seaisde town. When the weary caravans drew Into. their pitch late one after- noon, it was Mrs. Grudden who unharnessed the horses and led them off to water, helped every- body and directed everybody without fuss or ostentation, started the fire, washed the greens, prepared supper, and at - MERRY MENAGERIE Probably it's just his founds-, tion settling!" odd moments sat at caravan steps and mended costumes. Next morning she was early in the High Street, in bonnet and shawl, with a capacious basket, doing all the marketing for the troupe. g When the afternoon perform- "ance began it was<he who took oug wmoney at the box-office, and when the principal item = in the programme was reached at last to wit, the Grand Inter- national Fantastic Bare-back Ballata, and the band played and 'in came the tall circus- "horse, with easy amble and gen- tle' inclination ringwards, there on his pad, to our great delight, stood Mrs. Grudden, sylph-like. -- From the Intro- duction by Kenneth Grahame to "Seventy Years a Showman," by "Lord George Sanger. His Predictions Come T.u2 And now 'r youthful prodigy appea .. .dmund Hal- ley, son of a wealthy soap- manufacturer, sends a first paper to the Royal Society at the age of nineteen years. This was in the year- 1675. The young astronomer was elected a fellow of the Hoyal Society at the age' of twenty- two. ... . Re No doubt Halley's scientific contemporaries regarded his prediction of the future transit of Venus as a highly interest- ing exhibition of astronomical knowledge, but as falling well within the province of one who had devoted much time to cal- culation of planetary orbits. But the talculation of the or- bit of. a comet, coupled with the prediction that this visitor. would return forty-three - years later -- in 1758 -- was some- thing of a quite different order. Of course, the comet did ul- timately return, as the daring astronomer predicted, and was thus proved to be a member of the planetary family -- in fu- ture 'very properly to bear Hal- ley's name. But something promised for the year 1758 was hardly likely to hush the voice of skepticism of the year 1715. In any event, the feat of es- tablishing a comet as a member of the sun's family: is justly ac- counted one of the most spec- tacular accomplishments in the history of astronomy. It is diffi- cult from this distance to real- ize' adequately what such a pronouncement -what generation that heard it. It 'must be understood that from the earliest times comets had been regarded, not as nat- ural celestial bodies, but as supernatural phenomena. This was not merely popular and theological doctrine, but it. was an estimate that only the most rationalistic = of astronomers thought of challenging. . . . The forward-looking quality of Halley's mind was shown, not only in his attitude toward the Newtonian hypothesis, but in his receptiveness to new ideas in general, Naturally he had the 'keenest interest in the new and -improved astronomical instru- ments for 'which the epoch is distinguished. -- From "The Great Astronomers," by Henry Smith Williams. PR in Simo $IT-DOWN WATER SKIING -- Joe "Chaffee Ski," a watery version by Todd Chaffee, the craft has Stonebreaker demonstrates the of the motor scooter.. 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WES1, TORONTO -- RO. 7-5401 ' erecet," such a oA a DIG T HAT COOL POOL CAT -- "Swimmer," a two-month-old cat, plunges into a popl for her morning conditioner, and 'dog- paddles, if you please, the 40 feet across the tank with her owner, 10-year-old Donna Fick. Swimmer wasn't exactly enthu- siastic about her swimming lessons at first, but gradually got accustomed to the water by riding a raft. Now the kitten leaps off a diving board and pussy-foots it through the water with feline delight. Sword Fish--Tiger Of The Sea . / mid-summer The hot, sun burned down on a still, calm ocean. I was standing on the flying bridge of the charter boat, "Wizard", thirty miles south of Shinnecock Inlet, Long Is- land. Long, uneventful hours of gazing into the glare had made my eyes red-rimmed and tired. The constant throb of the boat's engine gave me the beginnings of a headache. Quite frankly, I was weary and bored. "Swordfishing isn't all action," commented Skipper Clyde Oak- ley. He gestured astern towards our two outrigger baits, bounc- ing and skittering erratically out- side the boat's wake. "Some- times you'll wait till a sword- fish spots the squid. They come flashing out of nowhere, hitting blind," he said. "Sometimes it's all waiting, and no fish." "This time it's fish!" yelled Hal Ryder. "Look ahead off the. starboard bow. Those gulls are working over something big." The birds were mere black dots on the horizon. As Clyde opened the throttle wide, racing towards the spot, I marveled at Ryder's farsightedness, the sea- man's eye that caught a speck of motion in a vast emptiness. As we came closer, I was able to distinguish the fluttering, wide- winged shapes of gannets, the smaller, fork-tailed terns, even a bevy of Mother Carey's Chick- ens, those tiny petrels that live on the open sea.- Underneath the aerial bedlam, churning the vrater to a silver sheet, a school of mackerel raced and twisted in a desperate effort to escape in- stant death in the form of a swordfish. : "That fish went down but he'll be feeding in a minute," whis- pered Clyde. "When he hits, leave the reel on frée spool and let him take line. Don't strike till he stops and swallows the squid." © © During the excitement, Ryder had snapped both lines from the outrigger pins, retriev- ing one bait and placing it in the portable ice box, ready for in- stant use. I went down the lad- der into the cockpit, slid into the big fighting ' chair, 'and buckled myself into a shoulder narness. Hal slipped the remain- ing rod into the gimbal socket on the chair. "Don't clamp down when he strikes," he warned. "That fish will carry the squid in his mouth till he decides it's good to eat. We want the hook deep in his gut." * My hands were wet with pers- piration. A hard knot cramped my stomach while the beat of my heart felt like a sledge pound- ing through my veins. I wanted to yelp in excitement, swear, beg, even pray to force the ac- tion writes Chuck Meyer in the Police Gazette. This "was the best chance I'd had at a rod-and- reel. broadbill in ten years" of trolling the blue water of the Atlantic. Sure; I'd baited at least [ifty swordfish. I'd known innumerable thrills spotting fish. Like most broadbill, they weren't interested. You could drag fif- teen baits across their snouts and all the swordfish would do is turn away. But maybe this monster would 'react differently. After all, the fish was feeding. "Hit it!" I muttered. "Hit it, please." Extending barely four or five inches shove the water, I spotted the two black fins tipping a few hundred feet astern. The caudal twitched once or twice, the dor- ~ sal fin stood stiff and erect while the fish finned higher. With its black bill suddenly clear, thrash- ing down and sideways, the swordfish came in like a naked thunderbolt. Wicked tempered, viciously slashing the sea, the broadbill engulfed my Line whistled off the reel. The fish stopped momentarily, "then ran again, "Strike!" bellowed Hal Ryder. I clicked the free spool lever into gear. The linen line tighten- ed on the reel spool. Something smashed through my arms and Hal - squid! wed Van TO LE JT, SHUN SUIT--Girls who don't like to get sunburned will approve of this long-sleeved swimsuit, modeled by Jean Moorhead in Hollywood. * shoulders, jolting nie half out of the chair. My feet were clamped on the footboards. hundred and seventy pounds, but I felt like a pigmy caught in the grasp of a giant. Line smoked from the reel, and Hal dumped a pail of seawater over the mechanism to prevent it from freezing. I was soaked, but I never felt the wetness. Spots were dancing in front of my eyes. My arms felt as though they were tearing from their sockets. For over an hour, I en- dured a session of physical tor- ture. The: broadbill came close alongside. Far from being dead or weary, the big fish merely wanted a glimpse of its tormen- ters. It spotted the shadow of our hull, rolled restlessly, and then attacked! There was no doubt of the action. Deliberately arching upward, that broadbill attempted to drive its sword nto the boat's bottom. Skipper Oakley slammed the throttle open. The "Wizard" squatted aft, then shot forward like a cannonball. I was yanked out of my scat again: Only my feet, braced stiffly, saved me. Dimly, I heard a harsh, grating sound as the swordfish grazed our transom. I saw the fish be- come entangled in a slack loop of my twenty-four thread line. Hal Ryder bellowed something incomprehensible, and raced to- wards the bow. He returned car- rying the long handled harpoon. "It's over!" he yelled. "The linen will pop! I can stick that fish now if you say the word!" I knew all hope of landing the broadbill on rod-and-reel was gone, Miserably, I nodded _ my consent. Clyde backed down on the fish, laying dormant on the surface. Just as the broad- bill slashed violently, breaking my line, Hal drove the harpoon dart into its head. The swordfish went com- pletely mad! The giant rose out of the water, blood streaming from its head, and attempted a second attack. Hal flipped the manila - keg rig overboard as Clyde gunned the charterboat out of harm's way, The broadbil) made two huge circles, tailwalk- ing, head and sword pointing at the sky, body exposed to its gill plates. Towing three hun- dred feet of manila line plus the karpoon keg slowed that fish considerably but never stopped it. Finally, it dove. The ocean became still, the keg bobbing quietly on the surface. A half hour passed uneventfully, "We'll have to charice picking up the warp," said Clyde, 'Hal and I grabbed the rope I weigh one together. There were no" fur- ther acrobatics, no jumps. It felt like hauling an anchor cable with the hook jammed in the bottom. We were unable to budge the dead weight on the other end of the line. : The. afternoon waned slowly, and a haze built up inshore. A slight breeze puffed into a 'wind' sea, and the "Wizzard". rocked' rhythmically as the waves passed benedth her keel. Despite our fear of pulling the harpoon ddv/ loose, we threw our bodies into this weird tug-of-war, yanking away at the line with, every ounce 'of strength we possessed, fruitlessly. "Get him or break it!" growled Clyde, "Lash the line to the railing and we'll let the sea make the decision." We obeyed the Skipper's or- der. As the "Wizard" banked in- to the trough of a swell, we tightened the line. She came taut momentarily, then some- thing gave. Hal and I retrieved three hundred pounds of broad- bill swordfish with sand grains imbedded in the bone structure of its cartilaginous snout. That swordfish rammed itself into the bottom before dying! In its last effort, unable to reach the boat, it smashed into the only solid ob- ject left available. If it had been us, the sword would have punc- tured the hull like we were planked with balsa wood. Man Bites Dog J's news when a man bites a dog but when postman lke Bar- 'ber, of Philadelphia, took a re- taliatory nin at a yapping terrier "he was charged in court with 'doing bodily harm to a thorough- bred animal. ' Now thousands of American postmen are trying new ways of stopping dogs biting them. Last year no fewer than 5,880 post- men were bitten by dogs. Three victims in every four had to see a doctor and over 600 postmen had to spend a day in bed. 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