sides, chasing rumors or starting a _ controversy in my column. This time I am going to deviate. Here is the story: ‘Yesterday Nels Arseneau busts in my room, boiling mad, and asks, “Where can ‘I locate Morgan?” The gleam in his eye warned me he had something to unload. I said, “What's the trouble?” Says he, “At the loggers’ banquet Morgan publicly mentioned that he did not think I was hhuman—and am I burnt up! Why, that ‘would-be House of David descendant, he goes up the Islands, makes a real job of organizing the boys. He delivers a real report at the convention and proves his ability as a leader, He even comes from the north with a beard good enough to make a wig for old Phil Doyon and myself and then spoils it all by saying Iam inhuman. To show you I am human Tl tell you my whole life history.” Well, boys, this excited Frenchman started to wave his hands and certainly slobbered a bib full. Now the best way to show you he is human is to relate in his own words one incident of his color- ful life, Said he: “As you know, I come from the hungry country, Born in the back- woods, Up to the age of 18 I had never seen anything. or been any place. A chance then came to hire to a camp near Bongar, During that winter I chummed with a boy named Art who had a lovely sister in town. I finally got to writing to her and made a date to call on her my first day in town. I left camp before Art and arriving in Bongar I got outfitted in a nice swell store. Cost me $18.25 for a new suit, patent léather shoes, celluloid collar, ete, I also got two pairs of cash- mere stockings for 25 cents, I stuck one pair in my pocket and slipped the other & ee HASTINGS STEAM BATHS 764 EAST HASTINGS ST. Government Registered Masseurs in Attendance J. WEPSALA, Prop. American Steamship Lines. Highland 0240 Hotel East “Make It Home” 445 GORE AVENUE Vancouver, B.C. 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I started for the girl friend’s hhome—and was I excited! “On the way I stepped off the curb in a snow and mud puddle right over my shoes; I couldn't visit with my feet in that mess so I sat on a hydrant and changed stockings, and slipped the wet pair in my coat pocket, I finally reached the house and there was May waiting for me at the window. She ran and opened the door and said, ‘I guess you are Nels; come right in.’ I was all flut- tered up, and stepped over the threshold, caught my foot in a mat and fell on my face. Shortly after, she said, ‘Dinner is waiting. I'll introduce ma and pa at the table’ Here I began to get nervous. I had never eaten anywhere and never had met anyone formally. We finally sat down, and boy! I had never seen so much silverware anywhere. I watched which spoon they used first and got started on my soup; I was halfway through when my napkin slipped on the floor. I reached for it, and my forehead hit the soup plate and all over me it goes! “May jumps up and says, ‘Oh, I'll get you a new serviette,’ I says, ‘That's all right; I got a handkerchief’ 1 reached for it and pulls out the dirty socks and start wiping my face. “I finally calm down and was doing fairly well when I noticed two buttons in my trousers were undone, Says I to myself, ‘I must get this done without anyone seeing me and before I leave the table.’ So between glances I managed to button myself up. To crown all luck the cloth had-a hem or frills, or threads, or maybe you call them tassels, hanging all around. At any case, I button these frills on to me and when I gets up I pulls half the dishes off the table. “Needless to say, I never was in such @ mess. I soon left the house and never heard tell of May since.” Now, boys, this is Nels’ story. Is he human? STOP! LOOK! TORY BONDS! LISTEN! BUY VIC- Mobolize Canada’s Full Manpower to Defeat Hitler! 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