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PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.

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story—that to sleep with the face exposed
to the full moon means madness and moon-
struck blindness for the man who is fool
enough to try it.

“Some of the boys believed that to be
true. Some of the others laughed at the very
idea of it. We argied and we bargied, and
then a big hefty lumberjack of the name of
Barney Murgatroyd said he’d sleep with his
face to a dozen moons for five bucks, any
time, and to hell with all the dozen of them.

“Well, I took him on right there, and we
boys went out a mile from camp. We took
a rope with us and we tied Murgatroyd to
a tree, with his back to it and facing the
half-circuit that the moon would be making
from midnight till dawn.

“As we left Murgatroyd there, with a
promise to pick him up at daybreak—if he
was still there then—he cursed the moon,
and our grandmothers, and everything else
that might suggest there was a heaven, and
a hell, and a hereafter, mouthing, as he often
did, that we just lived, and died, like the
brute beasts, and that that was the end of us.

“Barney Murgatroyd was as earthy as the
earth itself.

“That night was the brightest for moon-
light that [ve ever known. All night I
couldn’t sleep myself. Once, when I had
actually been dozing off, I woke in a cold

sweat, thinking I could hear the screeching
of Barney Murgatroyd in my ears. I was
for getting up right away. But the sound
died away. I listened for it for a long while,
but it didn’t come, so I turned over, and
finally I did snatch a full forty-winks at
least.

“At five o’clock in the morning, three of
us got up and went out to take the ropes off
Murgatroyd, expecting to be welcomed by
his mighty “haw-haw” and his demand for
my five dollars. But when we got to the
spot where we had tied him—what do you
think, sergeant?”

“He wasn’t there!” guessed Dalgleish.

“Och—he was there all right, but un-
conscious, and his face twisted in a distorted
kind of grin. A fearsome sight to see. There.
was suddy foam at the corners of his mouth
and on his chin. He was mumbling words
we couldn’t make head or tail of. His eyes
were staring wide and almost clear out of
their sockets like the folks ye sometimes see
with their thyroid glands out of kilter. And
he was as blind as a bat.

“Man Colin, I’m telling you it scared the
very souls out of us.
“We cut the ropes that bound him and

we carried poor Murgatroyd to camp. Then
we hurried him to Quebec. For a whole

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Phone 80 (Day or Nighi)

: 24-HOUR SERVICE
Passengers Insured

Two New Dodge Cars at Your Service

Besner Block, Prince Rupert, B. C.

Phone 470 P. O. Box 192

QUALITY STORE

Italian and Greek Imported Goods

Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Complete Line of Groceries

521 Fulton Street Prince Rupert, B. C.

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B. C. UNDERTAKERS AND
EMBALMERS

FRANK MORRIS, Proprietor

Funeral Directors

PRINCE RUPERT - -

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WINTER EDITION

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Convening September Ist and lasting six weeks, Class No. 7 at the B. C. Police Training School,

Victoria, comprised the smart squad of eight men shown above. From left to right: Const. R. Gilbert

(A.R.P.), Const. G. B. Hughes (Vancouver), Const. C. W. Price (Prince George), Const. C.

Dryden (Victoria), Const. M. A. Hornsby (Alberni), Const. R. J. Innes (A.R.P.), Const. W. R.
Morrison (Campbell River), and Const. W. G. Curle (Victoria).

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