} is a rarity. Poaching is a type of theft
ich seems to be a general pastime, and
. perperator feels more disgrace at being

ight than in being punished.
ORCHIDS FOR POLICEMAN’S WIFE

No description of life at a northern police
st would be complete without mentioning
> policeman’s wife; and orchids are hardly
ough to honour the city-bred wife who
nsfers with her husband to the northland.
any of the small pleasures that are taken
r granted in the city, such as seeing the
-est moving picture, having supper at a
wn-town restaurant for a change, or
opping in somewhere for afternoon tea—
| these little pleasures cease to exist for

Mrs. Todd taken with Police Dog Team

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sheep Mountain, directly south of Telegraph
Dreek, a favourite haunt of Mountain Sheep,
Goat and Moose.

Tag, Kim, Nigger and Mickey, a team of
McKenzie River Huskies, which gave the Depart
ment 12 years service.

FOURTEENTH EDITION

the northern policeman’s wife. Then again
her husband may be away on patrol for

Pa}

Dogs “packed” for summer patrol at Sheslay,
B.C., 44 miles north of Telegraph Creek.

lengthy periods during the winter months
and on the wife rests the responsibility of
the police quarters—no small task in spasms
of sub-zero weather.

For the moment this part of British
Columbia is a somewhat forgotten country,
but the airplane and the radio will, I am
sure, spur mining interest, and with the
necessities for a healthy rural life, doctors,

Departmental Dog Team, Colonel, Major, Buster
and Martin, and Const. J. W .Todd, Dease Lake,
B. C., 1944.

dentists, etc., it will no doubt come into its
own. Even now some form of travelling
clinic available to these people would be
a tremendous boon. The myth that the
north is a tough rugged place in which to
live is rapidly being exploded. There are
some hardships, yes, but the people seem
to be free from worry and live to a happier
old age than the city dweller.

If you are young and in good health, and
fond of an outdoor life, you'll never regret
a few years spent in the north.

A MAN was trying to sell a Sergeant
Trooper a horse, and after the animal had
been trotted round for inspection the would-
be vendor patted it on the neck, and asked,
“Hasn't he got a beautiful coat?”

“His coat is all right, but I don’t like his
pants,” replied the Sergeant.

LECTURER: “Workers are directly in-
fluenced by their immediate environments.
That is to say, plumbers are likely to become
affected with lead-poisining, ice-workers
with pneumonia, and so on.”

Student: “But I knew a man who drove
the council water-cart, and he died of
alcoholic poisoning.”

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