| Show Davi Davin The Dionne Through the Eyes Erel of My lr Old Guide PERCY PERCY HAMILTON the theT T- T best guide and fisherman along long the whole Gatineau chain hain recently hied himself to o Callender Ontario for lor the single ingle purpose of casting eyes yes upon the Dionne He disappeared upon the precise date late when I needed him most While this upset me to begin with there was nothing to do but forgive him when I learned his motive you I asked have had ad an eyeful of those kids after the bass season closed I I could that that replied Percy stretching his suspenders from under un un- under der his armpits and had just asgood as asgood asgood good a look at at em em as' as anybody else leaning over the fence around Docor Doctor Doc Doc- tor or Dafoe's Dafoe hospital where he has charge barge of the babies In the name of the king but something said go to toft tot it ft t Pere Perc It is only a few miles less than three hundred from my house to 0 his Just a few hours across neros coun country try In my timber hopping gasoline tank ank and worth two days of any mans nan's time I sure could have waited wafted But being the kind of a aman aman aman man I 1 am am crazy about children the father of four girls of my own and with all my wife's In n to get into my Jitney for a round roundtrip roundtrip trip rip to Callender CaUender what the hell wasI was I to do but say Come with me to the quintuplet show and have a alook look Becomes necomes Conducted Tour Percy again pulled out his suspenders suspenders sus sus- penders which popped back with aloud a aloud aloud loud crack like the beaver makes when slapping dapping the Ule water with his tail You did exactly the right thing Mr Hamilton and it is my pleasure to be among the first to congratulate late you How many ladles ladies were In your party About 11 five that tha t I 1 could ve see answered an an- answered my old guide and no less than a dozen that I could only hear They seemed to swarm into the back seat at every crossroad along the way You'd have thought that at least half hall of them were the tho mothers moth moth- ers of the rho and wanted to slip the old Doc some new stuff stud on what was best to be done right away or take the consequences A tire the blowout blow out anywhere along the route and andI I 1 would have been massacred Thanks to careful driving keeping the front wheels on the road while negotiating corduroy b bridges rid r i d g gel e s through overflow oversaw c co country o u un n t try t y we bumped along at 30 miles an hour and about 4 p p. p m m. made the front fence of what Dr Dafoe Babe calls the Dionne hospital The two provincial police who keep the line moving and see lee that the roads are kept open saw right away away that tha t we had come to see the tho quint and not the crowd From which way Jack asked one of them Hamiltons Landing Lake McGreggor with Grand Lake Just over the hill Three hundred miles to the south officer the best bass water in Quebec These Theae ladles ladies with me are my kinfolk says I. I And can we see the Sure thing Keep your eyes on the glass fronted veranda where they show up when the notion takes them thern A good look free of charge If It you have pa- pa tience Pa Dionne Gets Fan Mall Mail M My old guide did another suspender suspender suspender der stretch firing both barrels in unison When you stop top to think that the Canadian kids are the only ones out of 33 35 sets of quintuplets born bom during the last years year that came through in and are still alive continued Mr Hamilton why wouldn't I stick around to have bave an eyeful Man alive exclaimed the guide from Lake and Grand just over the hill I J saw laW them come out In ones twos and and I I was about to say lay threes but you know what I mean until the five of them were In sight Mind you the windows some lome new tangled patent allows people outside to see lee in but the cant can't see ee out Good idea that Five girls at any age couldn't take It without blowing up Im I'm the father of four four born born one at a time time time- and I know I sure do know A forward gesture from the armpit armpit arm arm- pit out jut a crack like a pistol shot and Mr Hamilton continued It was good business for the government govern ment to take over the job lob of bringing bring ing Ina those girls up under Dr Dafoe leaving Mr and Mrs Dionne time timeto timeto to Lo raise the kids they have left They have six other living a nine following the who weighed the whole five of them less Ie than ten pounds at birth More suspender artillery from Mr Hamilton Not yet three years of age they are now worth close to toa toa toa a million dollars Old man DIonne gets ets a bigger fan mall mail than Clark Gable At 50 SO cents a throw he drags down a week for his signature signature sig sig- sig nature while Mrs Dionne the most talked most talked about mother in the world is in the money a dozen diff dlf dif f f ent ant ways Ill I'll say laY U its it's coming coining to her e o C Service |
