ee Oe Page 10,September 1980 Cassiar Courier Great Stolen Acorn Hoard contd. from Page 5 kept up with the news and was smart, smart, smart. And well it was that he was because, on that very night, that very tragic calamitous night of pathos, at 9 willow bongs past sunset, as they were all. gathered at the small, exqui- site, extremely select haute eleve etc. etc, etc., some male- factor (in malice) committed a malfeasance and perpe- trated the theft of the ‘Great Stolen Acorn Hoard’. Leaving the ‘Great Stolen Acorn Hoard Hole’ empty! Hope hake George Holman The short rainy summer has left Good Hope Lake, with autumn coming in with a burst of colour on mountain slopes and in the valleys. Although this summer was wet it has its benefits. This has been an exceptional season for wild berries. They were having aparty, and they were sitting around the barbecue. Ernie and Edgar and John and Allan rendered Blue Grass Ballads on banjo and flute. Whiffer sang heartclutching Irish lullabyes. Flash told hope jokes. Homer spun tales of Allie Babba. Bullseye did some highly ‘interpretive Bali dances on Homer’s hump, accompanied by Miz Pinky on a French horn, Squawkz-Rawkus recited the ‘Witches Scene’ from Macbeth in 3 part harmony. And thus, they enjoyed themselves. sompletely unaware that their precious winter stock of scorns was vanishing, acorn by acorn into the darkness, like a pen- sioner’s saving under a very liberal government. The theft was discovered the very next morning by Mrs. Peeper the Squeekeress person and her very own personal husband - Peeper the Squeeker. It was on a standard. type of Smiling Meadows morning — dew, green grass, sun, flu*fy clouds, the whole bit! Miz Pinky, Homer, Bullseye, Squawkz-Rawkus, Whiffer, Flash Palloo, Emie and Edgar, Sputsy and Dizzy Izzy were all gathered around the Acorn Tree enjoying nice hot mugs of tea and big thick slices of golden toast, brewed and toasted by Miz Pinky. They were yawning and sipping and talking about the weather and the acorn barbecue enjoyed by everyone on August the eighth at the small exquisite, extremely etc. etc. the night before. Highways construction projects have end- ed for another season, with hopes of an early spring, so work can resume on high way #37. The local people have really started pre- paring for winter, with the berry pick- ing, putting up preserves, canning fish, and hauling in a large wood supply all in preparation for the long winter which is just around the corner. The hunting season will dominate the scene for the next few weeks,followed by the prepara- tion of traps, snow shoes and equipment for the trapping season to come. We.welcome to Good Hope Lake School the new school teachers, principal Mr. Ingrid Trapp. Doug Kerr and Ms. The four singers bowed in four directions. Every- one clapped and then rushed to them to shake paws and claws, pat shoulders and shout many olehs of solidarity. Then they gathered in a little group and stared up at the Hoard Hole. Yes, it was fully empty. Everyone could see that! But they stood, stared, gaped, yawped, gawked, gazed, mooned, glared, glowered, goggled, ogled, walleyed and more or less fixed their eyes upon it. There were no revealing details like scratches, tufts of fur, foot claw paw orhoofprints. No bird droppings, ladders bladders, fea- thers or crushed grass. No reason to suspect, no feuds, no jealousy or greed. Nothing! Ingrid Trapp MOCCASIN TELEGRAPH SAYS THAT After you have.cro the unused letters. AGOSERIS, Brian and Darlene have moved into their ARCTIC RASPBERRY new "Teepee" . Welcome to Good Hope Lake. BANEBERRY BLUEBELL Linda has caught the largest Lake Trout.’ SUCKBEAN Janson has caught the largest Dolly Var- BUTTERCUP den. CUTTERWORT YRR George has caught the largest Northern CINQUEFOIL NES ReGLT Pike. COLUMBINE RMI DRYAS \ RTR Jim is back to work, and as additional FIREWEED \ OVI therapy is running his boat on the river FLEABANE ; W LE after recovering from an accident earl- GREEN LILY Teen _ier this year. Good luck Jim! INDIAN PAINTBRUSH LSE : LADYS SLIPPER LGR Highways crews are busy getting ready LUPINES OO! for the winter season. MINT WTP ; NETTLE Taen nee Local elders predict a long Winter. NORTHERN BEDSTRAW A -ETU PASQUE FLOWER RLA _ The "Old Fox" was back for a visit, but PIPSISSEWA BOE didn’t bring along "Old Bess"his 58cal POND LILY NOR Musket. PYROLA HS U 4 QUEENS CUP School open, brings to end the summer ROSE activities. We wish all those who have SKULLCAP gone out to schools away from home,the SPIREA best of luck and we’ll watch for your . ‘THRIFT smiling faces to return. VIOLET ; WILLOW HERB ‘ YARROW Construction crews and Summer visitors have gone back to their home base. Hope you all enjoyed Cassiar Country. eae Cae NEES seek ant FIRA AyArvomnrmAnA MAmMKMoceo4-aAh Everyone was prostrated by fury. It was insuffer- able. What could they do? Gone was their happiness and winter worries were creeping in the corners and grinning at them. “My* said Miz Pinky, my my my. I purely do be- lieve Homer, that we got to do something!” “Yes\agreed Homer, we got to find those acoms, that’s what we got to do!” ’**You bet” shouted little Whiffer, “‘and when we find out who did I’m going to let them have one of my very best blasts, and I vow never to blast again until we . do. So when we do I will be able to deliver a super blast!” Ernie and Edgar were conferring excitedly. ‘‘We’re going to call in all our relations, our nephews and cousins and nieces and aunts and uncles, and we’re going to send them out all over the Smiling Meadow and the Feerfull Forest to search!” Dizzy Izzy and Sputsy cancelled their air speed trials and promised to search all trees from dawn to dusk whenever flying weather was good. Bullseye couldn’t see how he could be of much help in searching, but he could turn Homer’s hump into a command post. He wasn’t too worried because he hibemated all winter and ate flies all summer. In the meantime Flash was quietly investigating the crime scene. Looking and sniffing and poking his wise little head into nooks crannies and tufts of grass, inwardly shuddering in the fear of meetin: a mouse! “A MOUSE! YIPE! A MOUSE! YES! A mouse could do it he yelled! He ran to the tree and sniffed, he poked his head into the hole and sniffed. But there wasn’t any mouse odor. Just acorn odor. ‘“‘Hmm” he thought, “no odor, no scratches, no earthbound thing! What do birds smell like? But birds don’t eat acorns, just worms and stuff like that. Woodpeckers eat trees, swallows eat night gnats, ravens eat garbage! Everybody knows that!“ Into the destiny of these lives concerned in this chapter and those chapters; subsequent to it, there are three men riding. They are; Green Peas Jones, College knickname ‘Tennis Shoe’, Prosecutor (ordained), country of origin Muching Kittery Wooster England! Moonsure Gadoret, the French exception, knickname ‘Big Daddy Rooster’ from Mirror Machine N.B., and Clam Harbour Cape Cod. And thirdly Pontius Billius Delinius Rom Ren Inc., Knickname The California Heavy, Country of origin, Knuckle Ridge, S. Cal. USA. They are in a red 4 wheel drive with spare tires at both ends, and big ugly wheels. They have with them numerous fishing equipments, and a case of ‘Manitoba Ned’s diet free sugar pop. They will try, prosecute and de- fend the malefactors who perpetrated! the flower nanes, read the message in 1 BEPeSeAUR Gmbel Ge Re Aer 8 QU) BoE OCE