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GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta, March 1'7 — (OP) - Alberta's oldest for- est ranger wants to retire but he can't.
For 15 years Pete C. Comeau has patrolled the virgin forests from Gronde Prairie, Alta, to the Brit- ish Columbia border. His job is watching for forest fires, protect- ing game and keeping an eye on registered trap lines.
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I can't; it's in my blood. I would like some comforts but I can't seem lo stay out of the bush for long."
Pete spent 10 years lumberjack- lng when he first came to Alberta from Nova Scotia. Then he became a forest ranger.
With two pack horses and saddle mount he patrols lonely bushland trails. Bears sometimes steal his packs at night and attack him at times.
During the months when fires are infrequent, Pete cuts trails, using a dog tcam in winter and a horse in the summer.
MARRIED WORKERS Fifty-eight per cent of United States working girls are married; the pro-war figure was 42 per cent.
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Prickly Porky the Porcupine chews his food well. wherein he shows better sense than some boys ‘and girls Who are in too much of a hurry to get back to play, He is a little noisy about it. Of course that isn't polite, but probably no One ever has ever told him this. Anyway, living so much alone as he does he probably would think a little matter like that doesn't matter. That's his mistake. Not only is it impolite if anybody is around but it". draws attention to himself when he would rather be unnoticed. Anyway he never has the stomach-ache from eating W0 fast and not chewing his food.
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My correspondent strongly im- plied that. he had been the Victim of circumstances ln this case. and wished to know whether his part- ner's criticism ‘was valid.
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Prickly Porky wasn't eating the rough, tough outer bark. His fare is simple but he has the good sense to insist on only the best of it, the tender inner bark. "Don't you get tired of bark?" as ed Peter. . “Of course I do," grunted Prickly Porky. “Too much of a good thing always is tiresome. That ls why I am going to top of! with some green food."
Where would I get it but right up here in this very tree?” grumbled Prickly Porky.
He moved out along a big limb until he was where he could reach and pull in some flat; green sprays of loaf-covered twigs. No. I am not mistaken.‘ Every twig bore slender green leaves. You might not have called them leaves. Probably you ‘would have called them "needles." Most folks would. But the "needles" of the hemlock trees and the pine trees and the fir trees and the spruce trees are true leaves, and because those that grow in the summer do not die and drop when winter comes those trees remain green all the year through. That is why ‘we call then evergreen trees. The old "needles" do die and drop after a time, but the new ones keep the trees green. 5o the brown needles that. carpet the ground beneath the pines are as truly dead. leaves as the big brown leaves beneath the oak trees. Twigs that were in his way as he moved along that limb were bitten off by Prickly Porky and dropped. Hts big front cutting teeth snipped one oft’ with a single bite. It was no trouble at: all. much easier than trying to step over or around them. As he climbed about eating ‘only the ten- derest leaves, he cut off and dropped some twigs that bore little brown cones. You know the big brown cones of the pines and the smaller cones of other evergreen are the fruit, though they look n0 more like what we usually think of as fruit than the needles 100k like other leaves. Only the seeds they hold are good to eat. Chatterer the Red squirrel knows how good they are, especially the pine seeds. A spray bearing two little brown cones fell near Peter. Hardly had it landed when one iwho Peter at first took to be Robber the Rat: appeared as if by magic, running toward that fallen spray. He stopped abruptly as he saw Peter. His big black eyes were fixed on Peter with something very like a stare. "Oh, it's just youi" he en- claimed after a moment.
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