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on-, 'raiini-n. nuns MN- hum snginaer from Alshulu-. mines his bus to San Antonio. Tun. Mona Msson. Wile M 1 uma rancher. gives him s lift. At her own home I hog runs out into the mad. -he lnsas control 01 the car Ind er-adios into a dltrh. 1'nluirt her-self, Mons has this injured Gary clrrlod to the house. Mn. Mason's twenty-one-year-old daughter. Adelaide, helps nurse hlm.. Recovered. GM! II In love with Adelaide. but without . you cannot tell her so.

And then there were (mi? N0 agyis lsft. and on that morning Gary and Adelaide walked across the lfields and into an eroded can- on, where at liutle wet-weather stream wandered. They sat down in rest on a boulder and tossed bits of rock into the water. Gari' u'lll'Ilhl6d ii soft fragment in his hands and was idly brushing the dust from his palms when he lerked erect sucldenlv. staring at It. ind then bent. quickly and began pmkmg up other pieces. looking ll them keenly.

"What is it?" Adelaide asked.

He did not answer, but went mranibling up ine side of the ranch, digging uith a jagged stick it the low 0Iilt':r0IlD.llK. When he tame down. his face was set and intent. "Has your father ever had 5 geolog.st out here? he asked.

”Not that I know of. Why?"

"I'm not sure -- I haven't had mough expprir,-rice to be sure - but Id like to check this area on 1 geophysical map."

"Gary - you mean oil? You Think there's all - on our land?"

"I wouldn't say, definitely. But

this looks to me like the night krind of structure - Im pro- bably wrong, but I might be right."

Adelaide's eyes were suddenly wide and excited.

”Gary -- tic could find out,

couldnlt we? Could you tell if you had I map?”

"Not definitely. I know there's a fault that runs through this area - and you see this?" He crumbled the bit of rock in his fingers. ”sulphur in that - smell it? Where there's sulphur there's all. iisually...."

"Oh, Gary - let's get a map! Could we get one in town? one of those - what you said?"

"A geological map would show the structure. And if this area Irnimd here has ever been worked by any oil mo.-n -- any of the geo- physir i-rows - they'd probably have maps - hard to get hold of those. though."

"We could try. Let's go now. We uctdritt tell any one about it - till you know more about it."

Her face was flushed and eager. her eyes burning. Gary knew that look. He had seen it so man) times in the ayes of peopls who stood around watching a well be- ing spudded in, watching drills go down and the damp. gray cores being lifted -- a feverish, , strange,

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avid look. It chuigsd thou peo- ple - and Adelaide was changed. she was suddenly an elart. tense 5trI.nger.I-Ie tossed the crumbled ciod away and was sbruptly sorry he had said anything about it. Pm- bablty he was wrong nnqywsa. Every young fellow who had A couple of letters on a degree had a dream of some day finding the biggest oil strike of all. And oil was like lightning - dark light- ning. Where it struck. the peace- ful was neva the same again.

"Yes." he said slowly. ”Ws can probably get 1 map And an ex- perienced . ,'iysicist could pm- bably tell whether there's any de- finite promise or not. What I've learned was how to get oil out of the ground after some one else located it. but I would want to adviss your father to hiro geo- logists - not yet, anyway - not Just on my word."

”Oh, but if there should ho oil under this place. Gary, Dad would be glad to hirs any number of people. Arid if you're a. petroleum engineer. you ought to know as wall as anybody."

"All I've got in a degree. Ade- laide - and a little desultory ex- pariencs. I've had to work at other things - anything I could do to earn money. I've been more or less learning the all business from the top of the derrick down."

"But if you should find some- thing - and it turned out to be important - Oh, Gary, if we did get an oil well via'd be terribly rich, wouldn't we? And you'd be rich too."

"P.E.'s don't get rich. They get paid for helping other people get rich.”

"Oh, but Dad wouldn't havo it that way. Oh. let's get my car and go, quick. Theylll have a map some- where in town, won't they?"

"I guess so. Somebody would have one."

"And, Gary.” she was still trem- ulous with excitement, "if it turn- ed out that you're right, if we did find oil - you wouldn't have to go t.o Mexico. You could stay here and work for Dad."

"You mean - you'd want me in stay?” stumbling along, his feet fr-ellna wooden. he could not look at her. He head was buzzing.

Her light answer was like cold water thrown into his burning face. "Oh. but of course! We have fun. And you don't get ideas mg all the other mam I know. I can talk sense to you and not have to listen to s lot of awful non- sense about my hair and my eyes and all that di'eai'n;y stuff."

"I see. so you want to no on - talking sense?”

"Of course, You've no ides what I. relief it is. You couldn't have - because you're not s. girl,”

"All right," he said. a little flat. "We'll talk sense, then,"

"And we'll go straights off and see if we can find a map. Gary- If it's true - I want you to tell Dad."

(Continut-d')

strange But True

By I. ll. Ilumrthnr

If you were asked to name the loneliest island in the Britili lin- piro what would your answer be? Well, donlt scratch your head any longer. The island is Tristan ds Ciirihs. It lies half way bstiwson the Cape or Good Hope and south A- merica.

St Helen; is tho nesrost land. 1300 miles distant. It 111: so far off regular shipping lanes that very seldom do ships call there. The lonellest island has 100 inhabitants. descended from a few British sold- lerl and their wives who settled than In mm

The two buttons at the but of a. man's dress coat werroriglnslly used for holding ii sword belt.

The Bubonlc plague first appear- ed in England In August of 1343. The results were devastating. Whole villages and small towns were left without one living soul. Animals died and mtted in the fluids. Prices of all kinds of foods skyrocketed. Thar:-. were not enough clergy-men to bury the dead and persons caught leaving our district for anotfhsr without par- mlssion were branded with A hot iron.

The dreaded Black Death was brought from the Far East by flea- lnfnsted rats.

Men walked distances in ploneo-r days in this province that one would not care to iindei-take todav, over roads that were only Just us- able in summer.

Many and varied were the travel- lers along our Island roads. Th.-re wore clergymrii. farmers. and ped- dlers. with aimbln packs strapped across their shoulders, The latter became quite ii plague and many farmers' wives were scared out of their wim.

Roads were in a terrible ntatey and most farm produce was moved by water, as the cost was cheaper. Winter travel was an impossible that merchants allowed their 3us- tmnars to purchase large quantities of goods In the late fall. If s trad!-r I sold bad meat or fish he was fined and sometimes nut in the stocks.

By today's standards, hours of work were long. from dawn to dusk. But there was ample work for every able-bodied person. Here are it few of the trades then carri-d nn: tamisrs. blsoksmihhs, dime- makers. cnbhlers, carpenten and llRl')F'YdlIBl'lPl'H.

At harvest time a scyiiher would be paid about 20 cents in day with food and lodging thrown in. Other workers got very small wages. Good old days?

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All nations do not make use of the same calendar. The Abyssin- lrna. Chinese. and certain other races use a different system. The Jc-'w'ish calnndar dates from than period which the Hebrews believe to have been the beginning of the

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Nature's guarded secrets

I In than ANY explanation when I an empty lake refills after five 1 years - - and fish return in days? I . . . when I ride-r'a lost in ii flood at I night ; and his mars finds the W”'.V homo? . . . when in dreaded I rattlrr alithrrs on in baby's lap - I and doesn't. strike? I

F”h""".V Rnader'iiJ7iizPaf. brings . you fascinating stories of the mys- terious wild hv a man who hm; spent 50 vs-am trying In undgr. stand some-thing nf nature's ways and the ways of IIPT wild children.

Got. Fnhriiary Reader's Digest today: 37 nrtii-Isa of lasting inter. mt. condensed from lending mags- zirira and current hooks.

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would. no lldiuiianadss nlandar also dstaa ran 1 iiittoronl this. A form ocnunitimant still used China, taninds min at our own stocks and nkllsry. The victim has his head pushad through a hole In s lane smisrs of heavy thnbo-r so mat ho cannot reach his mouth with his hands. Details of the crime for whidi he is being punished are nrmsn on the front of the timber. 'IIis first carriages of which we read wen two-wheeled chariots. used by the cracks and Romans. on-risgos did not come into regular ile in tlih Island until roads were

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mg. , um Carroll. Broadly speaking wolisuld nat wands:-isnd,is saidtobavs drawn call the mouiimsnts snow: to our the first diriatlnu card. dead soldiers monuments. Why? White olothss an mat oltsn Because an empty tomb oujit to used by 906310 living in very hot be called a ocnatam. climates. 'l'hls's a reason for this. ' ' 0 ' White clothes reflect hast much In the early days o( pi-intlnc. bsttsr than do dark ones. In other books were soyscuco and costly words. wliits clothes throw back that they wore chains! to their the light and host wtiidi fsii upon

shelves. There still exists some them.

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America. '!lis singing of Christmas carols Canaries an very sansitivs to data from Ihs ilth century. De-

gues whim is why you wil suna- ton thon it was s dsnos, union the times us than in coal mines. It party Joined in a smile. driging as

usad hnias as clots. 11010 was rasmviod by tau level of its oil in the lamp.

Thofirstoosl sverbumsdtytlis lmglish people was at Westminster. It was tried out by Kins James I.. who called it "the wonder Iual." But it was used by the mimsns, for cos! sshu have been found in some of their camps It was once osllod "us coal" because it was picked up on the seamen altar heavy storms. 'mo mmks of Tynaniouth were the eirstloktaoainkshsctandmins for coal.

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