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́n Canada, for a seven weeks; Captain. Arthur Bothwell,- Com | Toyne, Education Officer for tour as guests of the National mander of the Empress of Aus-Brighton; W. A Brockington. Council of Edvention, Rre | tralia as the dominie. He is CBE, Director of Education for British Directors of Education pointing out scenic beauties of Leicestershire; J. A. Peart, Direc- are at présent touring the Domi- the St. Lawrence ́river,

-tor of Education for Winchester: mion. The visit has been "arran- ged to celebrate the 25th Anni- versary of the Overseas Educa- tion League, which ormanizes a nual visits of Canadian students and teachers to Great Britain, and is a return of the hospitality ex- tended by British educators to the Canadian visitors.

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Left to right in the picture | tion: E. X. Rích, Education Offi- man stated they hoped to "learn | rez—T. J. Rees, Director of Ed- cer for London and Major Fred quite a bit while in Canada”. Pho- nextion for Swansea: Captain 1. Ner, MC, Vice-President and tograph shows · commencement Arthur Rothwell Commander of Honorary Organizer. Overseas of the educational process with the Empress of Australia; F. H. Education League, Winnipeg.

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"One after another they began and one of those big red eels hadștime," and he came right after it. to collect around my rock. Black, climbed right up and grabbed my He sort of flowed up over the edge yellow with black spots, grey ones, finger between his teeth.

of the rock, as big as one of these Marseilles, Havre, London, Ham-and a couple of mean looking red "He was tearing away at it boa snakes they have in Malay. ones the colour of blood. The while the blood spurted over the And he must have been a big one. Ham- biggest one must have weighed rock and dripped out of his mouth all right, or I'd never

nearly forty pounds. He was 2 All the time his little black eyes right now. sight to make anyone shiver. As was looking at me just like a "As he slid over the rock to- big around as a hawser rope, with snake's. And around the edges of wards my finger, kind of swayin” a mouthful of teeth that would the rock I could see the heads of from side to side and leavin' a scare even another eel

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five or six more of 'em, just about trail of slime off his red skin, the clear to climb up and begin chewing. idea came to me. He was heavy dark

"I watched "er in the water, slipping out of the

"I let out a yell and jerked my enough to tilt the rock and let my holes between the rocks, stoppin" hand back, but it cost me the tip foot out of the crack! real still to stare like snakes, then of my finger. I saw the last of "The idea brought me around a circling around the flat stone I was that bloody hunk of finger in the little bit, and I held my breath as layin' on I began to get some eel's white mouth as he dropped I dragged my finger real slow over new ideas about cels

of the rock into the water. The to the shore side of the rock. "I always knew they was scaven-pain nearly drove my crazy. Like a snake following a crippled Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and gers, eating" fish out of stretch "It wasn't till after I tore off rat he followed my live bait nets and stealing bait so Td the sleeve of my shirt and fixed Slow, slow, I led him along till be never thought of 'em as going tourniquet around my finger was past the centre of the rock. after a live fish, much less a live that I began noticing the pain in That ought to tip her. I reached man I was a live man, all right, my head. Then I knew where as far as I could.

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but to those eels I was just an-some of the blood had come from "Nothing happened. The rock DODWELL &

other big fish caught in a net that covered the rock. I'd cut a stayed as steady as ever. The

I never get a whiff of a beach big gash in my head, and, from red eel wasn't far enough over to feelin' those stones pinchin my lot of blood. All of a sudden I make him go far enough. He

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ankle and seeing those slimy eels wanted to go to sleep. I. was 30 started after my finger again. - crawlin" up to stare at me with weak I began to`slump down on “I almost didn't notice the pain snake eyes and open their jaws to the rock again, and the minute I for bein' so sick with the failure palm chew on my fingers. That's the did that I saw I was in a real of my plan. I laid still and just part. I'm coming to, only I didn't Jam for sure, watched that slimy devil nosing he'd closed his jaws think I'd ever live to tell the "Ta no sooner got quiet when around my hand. Then the yel-Day finger. it had story.

that red anout came sneaking up low one slipped up beside him, and shakin" from the The old man stopped, with the over the edge of the rock with I held my breath. The two of a bite and ope dramatic instinct of a real Foly-another yellow one right beside item ought to be heavy enough to mouth for nesian and calmly took a bag of If I passed out again. I was done tip the rock tobacco from the breast pocket of for. Those eels would be right on But still she didn't budge grabbed his wrinkled linen coat. Weltop of me, and I knew that twelve Them eels wasn't far enough past ran right the

The normal schedule time for waited as he rolled a brown-paper of 'em could make short work of the centre. And I couldn't more clamped dow

had him I my live bait another inch. cigarette, pinched one end of it anything the size of a man

this type of aeroplane is 2 hours, expertly with the stump of his “But I'd lost so much blood by knew if I could get even one of

With my last bit of strength but one had previously made the forefinger, and bent his head to that time that I could barely sit 'em clear over to the other edge sat up and heaved him towards trip in 1hr 50mîn

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The Imperial Airways liner Heracles flew from Paris to Croy- don recently in Ihr 39m record for its type

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get a light from the match some-up and yell at 'em. I jerked on he'd be heavy enough to tilt the the shore, still hanging on to his Heracles had the benefit of a one held out Then he blew my foot. Those two rocks had track. Here was my thirty-pound bead He must have weighed tail wind cloud of smoke and

clamped down like a vice. I weight, if I could only throw is thirty pounds all right, for when On November 29, 1929, Capt. B threw my weight towards the “All of a sudden I reached out he slapped down on the other Youel, flying an Armstrong-Sid- shore as far as I could, tryin to with my left hand and grabbed at edge of that flat rock she tilted up deler air liner from Paris to Lot- "Well, I began to get panicky at the rock that had me pinned the eel nearest to me. He ran out, and all at once my fout was out dom cover the distance In 95 I didn't know what those eels down. It was like me tryin' to of my hand just like water. Alt of the crack. I opened my hand minutes. The Heracles is a 28- would do, and I had only that old move a monument.

I had was a handful of dime and with a splash the eel file to defend myself with if they "With almost my last strength There was no use 'tryin' again. I gone decided to swarm up on the rock yelled for help and then I sank knew I could never catch one. I didn't think they'd do that as down again on the rock, just about| "I was desperate by that time, rock long as I moved around, but I out for good. No one came. I can tell you. If I didn't get our made couldn't move around much with Nothing came except those damn- that rock right then I knew I shore. my leg down in that crack, and meed eels. Things was beginnin' to never would I had a picture offI fell kind of squattin“ on the flat stone go. dim again, when I felt that my bones, picked clean and rat-bab

By this time ten or twelve of sie mooing up my

lating back and forth over the rocks bru

the ugly devils had collected, and forced my eyes open. There was in the WITES." The thought just com'd they was swimmin' around my rock the red eel back at my-finger- about finished Tue for good plo -getting- bolder and bolder and The pain brought me out of it Everything began

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