Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 28, 1957, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 2 Winnipeg tree press monday. October 28, 1957 chapter 14 chestnuts and dreams of wealth where did Yon to taking cod liver Oil and being the burrs were harder and some be burrs of the ground. This was shunted off to bed. I times there was a Fingernail hold j the Day. The burrs were less Green. By which you could split the burrs the. Prices pickled enough to it ill hammering them Chestn lots Are kor. By Robert Paul Smith final chapter it was a lad Day when von found the Rock pile did t hold precious gems after All but you could always play Kil lers with horse chestnuts. Died at last to never one i that our fortunes were like it again. Nothing will Ever look or taste As Good As the coun j people grownups Don t try gentleman Corn i ate there know or Don t want to know How will never be quite As satisfying important Noney is to Little kids. Dish As a Mound of mashed i my kids with dough if i were asked and since it s extremely unlikely that anyone will Ever ask Rne i propose to ask myself right now what two objects seem to me now to have bulked the largest in my childhood my answer would be prompt. Garnets and chestnuts. I have saved them for the last because that s another thing i did in my childhood and wish i could do now save the Best for the last. I never saw anything More Beautiful than my sister s roman striped hair ribbon. I am recon and the Hunting knife with Scab Bard and hip boots we waved Goodby to the order of the entire contents of the Johnson Smith Cata log All in one swoop we knew we would never have the Complete Gravy i will never feel quite a the works of Tom Swift. We went Hack Quality of despair i once Felt ifs an equalizer. My kid flunking algebra nor will i Ever pending away to Johnson Smith and feel quite the same thrill of Nice j company for a sixty Volt Genera Ness eternity and yes Beauty Tor and a plate pal Piator and a it toes and the round spoon making in their z remember quite Crater on top and filling it with clearly what Cash is to a child. Out the then the horse chestnuts were _ v in e around. These Wert horse Chest hot d tial marbled. All this debris we left on the As my first and last com prehension of Euclid. No super deck of marked cards is bullying up to the bar and naming his own Constellation will Ever Fly As won Poison. When he hands me the Jam de fully As the first Model air Jug a. The Spring Snake inside plane built from plans in the ame Jam j open it and Ose two beats rican boy i will never have my Nej holding a gun Friend like the friends i had then Jon me two feet taller i am pretty sure now i will never than j am eyes examined Harold m. Black optometrist Phon. We Mitchell Copp Ltd. Fortach at Harfi rave open Dally . 4th annual shocker feeder auction Sale at the farm of d. L. Coburn Carman Man. Thurs. Oct. . 50 head Whitt fico Cantu including 25 Long yearling steer and Tifen and 25 Spring calves. C. Johnston auctioneer Cirman Man. Find an Arrowhead. But All the same the Best for the last garnets and Chest nuts. The Rock pile on the vacant lot was composed perhaps All surely largely of what we called and what May have been Sand Stone and we found out fairly Early that if you pried at it with a knife you could split it into sheets. There was slate there also and that could be split in sheets but by banging not by splitting. The slate could be chipped into arrowheads and we made a who owned the Garnet mine. Of Cave Man knife of it too. Our pictures would be in the paper. When we got together enough garnets we were going to buy a motor buckboard get a really Good Galena Crystal and million ohm earphones get racing tubes and every motor boy Book published buy All our clothes at the army Navy store go to visit Dan Beard and Raymond Ditmars and Breit Bart the Strong Man and just me Luther Burbank. Our parents would be terribly deferent to us and people would Point us out on the streets As the but one Day splitting the Sand Stone we found Little red nuggets in it. We spent some time pry ing the Little nuggets out. Did one we would be very kind to every body and nobody would Tell us what to do. Ever. If our parents told us what to do we would t of us know then that there them any More garnets we garnets or did we not know until we showed them to a grownup it does t matter. We knew they were stones we knew that they were precious stones. When we found the word garnets we knew that they were precious stones used in jewelry that they were practically the same As diamonds reconditioned typewriters office and portable models traded in on new Hermes typewriters Low As Why pay rent you Are assured of value and dependable service on any machine you select. Our guarantee protects you. Winnipeg typewriters Ltd. Selling typewriters 1914" 308 notre Dame ave. Whitehall 3-5272 would take away our Brothers and Sisters Shetland ponies and put away our fathers cigars and Brandy our mothers jewelry and silk dresses until they behaved themselves properly. We chipped away like prisoners on a Rock pile and we stashed our garnets away in matchboxes. We carried the matchboxes in our pockets and from time to time say at intervals of fifteen seconds we opened the matchboxes and bathed in our loot like the count of Monte Cristo in the movies. I had Little twinges every now and then and i m sure the other kids did but we never talked to each other about it when we found that the garnets some times broke apart when the knife Blade hit them instead of the sur rounding Sandstone. I believe i even had a theory that they dried out hardened when exposed to air because How could they be jewels in a brooch or a pin or a ring if they broke. Jewels were things that were very hard. But i did t worry about it Long. There was some Man on the Block not a Parent maybe a fur Nace Man or a Yard Man or a Bandy Man or a chauffeur who was the court of last resort. He was a grownup but he levelled with kids. We took the garnets to this Man who was on our Side he pronounced them garnets. We went Back and split More tons of Sandstone. I Don t know who it was who finally told us maybe this same Man. They were the kind of garnets used to make that rough sandpaper called Garnet paper. They were not jewels at All. We gave up the magic lantern on your savings National Trust announces this new High interest rate effective november 1st. So open your account now and Start earning on your savings come to our office or fill out the Handy Coupon below minimum half yearly balance. 250 i National Trust company 250 Portage arc., i Naief enclosed is Deposit off please open savings account in my name and mail me my put Book Etc. L address. Or. My mix City or town a nuts and next to clothesline most useful thing in the world. When i started my Jove affair front Lawn of this House. With horse chestnuts just the Way later still one Day there would there was Only the Reservoir j just one in the world so there was Only one horse Chestnut tree. We visited that tree for weeks in the fall before it was time tried to but could not resist pull j ing on the Early Green burrs off i the lower branches. The prickles j on the burrs were not yet hard j but splitting the Green burrs mostly a matter of hitting them with stones on the curb and split the nuts along with the burrs a Little later on the prickles and dentists Tori a Colton pm. We Ruholl 9-1131 . . Dally 9 . 1 . Saturday 9 . To 6 . Hurt not enough to draw blood. Split the Green Burr and you safety Glass safety Glass was first used Jaitt mobiles in 1926. Continued on Page 7 asthma mucus loosened with wonder Wor ctr new special thinks to it orator formulation thou Sands of sufferer a now avoid much i Vera wheezing instil of rattling difficult breath inf combing and stuffings during recurring quacks of bronchial asthma Peytr and bronc Hatji by take no new Ira proved Patt working Medaco. Flatt dose starts allergy relax bronchial and remove thick choking mucus from bronchial and nasal passages. When you can breathe Freer you sleep sounder work better and have More fun. 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