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Before dawn one day last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...
Sometimes Labor's haymakers swung wide. In the village of Caister outside Yarmouth, an elderly lady rose and quietly asked Labor M.P. Ernest Kinghorn: "Why can't the government take off the purchase tax, at least on essentials? I find it so hard to make our money cover all the necessities." Others in the audience applauded. Kinghorn jumped up and shouted: "I want all of you who applauded to raise your hands." Sheepishly a few listeners raised hands. Then Kinghorn demanded: "Now how many of you have false teeth provided by the government?" There was a moment...
...early counting of Yarmouth shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready...
Elsewhere in the following cities, radio stations will be broadcasting the game: Fall River, W. Yarmouth, Cicopee, and New Bedford, Mass.; Torrington and Hartford, Conn.; Corning, Schenectady, Buffalo, and Ithaca, N. Y.; Harrisburg and Lancaster, Pa.; Portsmouth, N. H.; Baltimore, Md.; and Woonsoceket...
Supercrooks. In Yarmouth, England, four boys confessed with a touch of braggadocio what they had done with the 64 bricks of ice cream they had stolen the night before: they ate them...