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...cree-ay-ter of the gratest comical stripp in all cree-ay-shun, naimly 'Peerless Fosdick,' who is mah ideel. . . . Lately, other comical stripp cree-ay-ters bin cree-ay-tin even more horibul cree-ay-shuns than yo Like ladys wif gravel in thar hare, mudd in thar eyes an who smells badd. Natcherly, the Americun public in-joys this vurry much. . . . Go to it, Gooch, whomp up a lady that is so itchy, so shakey, so smelly, an so onbarubbly disgustin thet once agin yo will be the king of the funny page...
...another fat poke. He had just sold a claim to Campbell Red Lake Gold Mines and split $800,000 in cash and stock with three partners. (Much of the credit, he felt, was due an 80-year-old Cree Indian named Jake whom he considers his good-luck charm.) This time Prospector Campbell invested in more durable things than wheat futures. Among his new acquisitions: two planes (with a private pilot), a fully equipped yacht, a saxophone (which his wife abhorred "because it makes the wolves howl"), and the first player piano to be brought into the Red Lake district...
...quiet waters of Ontario's Algonquin Park, where the beavers live protected lives, four Cree Indians, Dominion Fur Supervisor Hugh Conn and his wife were busily trapping beavers. They would send the live animals north to the even quieter waters of the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Preserve. There only the red man may trap. Explained Supervisor Conn: "Doles [do not] solve the [Indian] economic problem. . . . They have lived by the hunt for centuries. The obvious answer ... is to restore fur bearers...
Chief Night Owl (real name: Roxy Hamilton), a Manitoba legislator, let out a secret for which his male constituents might well have scalped him. Cree braves, said he, invariably predict a light winter; otherwise their squaws would make them get into the woods, cut fuel for the winter woodpile...
Maney, born 47 years ago in Chinook, Mont. (then full of Cree Indians), has said so often that he spoke only Cree until he was twelve that he now believes it. Actually, the only strange sounds he uttered came out of a cornet he played...