then they were both made of iron).
They went and bought a load of gro-
ceries loaded them onto Gords ski-
doo.- - come to think of it he had
the first and only ski-doo in town,
one of these old fashioned two piece
affairs. Remember too, Gord was a
man over 50 and his going all by
himself in the middle of winter over
60 miles of snow filled road and all
the way back, 120 miles. If any-
thing went wrong no one had anyway
to get to him, I'd say he had
courage.

At the Cottonwood Bridge a bull
moose stood on one side of the
bridge while Gord sat on the other
side. Gord said it took him over an
hour to convince the moose that he
had as much right to cross the brid-
ge as it had. At that time Gord
had a cabin on Pine Tree Lake and
he decided to put up there for the
night. As no trail was cut into the
cabin, he had to leave the sleigh
load of groceries some ways off. The |
only thing that bothered him was
that wolves might come and start to
eat the groceries. Then he rememb-
ered reading somewhere that if you
urinated in a circle around some-
thing, wolves would never cross the

line. So with that in mind he
started to make the circle around th
ski-doo. As Gord put it, "it was a

great idea only |! ran out of water
halfway round'', Halfway round must
have worked as the groceries were
untouched in the morning and he
started on up the road, arriving at
a point on the road opposite the
buildings across the Lake. He yelled
“himself hoarse and not a sign of
life across the lake. This deter-
mined Scot loaded the groceries cn
his back, put on snow shoes, clamb -
ered down the hill and across the
lake to find the women and kids all
hiding because they were afraid of
him. In due course they all appear-
ed and a brew of tea was made. |
After a short rest he started back,
tired and worn out.

Tired he must have been because
he went right by his own cabin in
the darkness and was at the Cotton-

wooc nefore he realized It. There

a problem presented Itself, he did
not have enough gas to get to
Casstar. Did he have enough to get
back to the cabin where he had some?
Continued next Issue....1'm kidding,
he got back alright, but only just,
the ski-doo coughed its last as he
turned off the road to the cabin.

He cooked himself a great big steak,
then crawled Into bed, clothes and
all to sleep the sleep of the just,
the next day he headed home to be
greeted by what was a very worried
wife.

Oh yes, and the indians that
brought the news to town? They
went down to the pub, but | guess
that's another story.

xk & &

NOTICE

In order to preserve some of the
history of Cassiar, the Cassiar
Public Library is gathering past
issues of the Asbestos Sheet to
be placed in the library for
public reference.

lf you have past editions of the
Asbestos Sheet that you may wish
to donate to the Cassiar Library,
please send them to Mrs. Pat
Flanagan, Cassiar Public Library
or The Asbestos Sheet, c/o
Training Centre.

Contributations towards this
project will be greatly appre-
ciated.

zx eK

| Wart ad clipped from a Yan~uver
| [stand Newspamer: "Four-poster bed
| 110 years old with springs. Perfect

for antique Lover."

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