Show thriller of long ago outdone by invention way back in their boyhood reading illicit reading with the in the big geography and the teacher not too vigilant some men who are how can recall a beadle thriller with the title red bed star the spirit of the lake A white pioneer has had all his family murdered by the Ind indians lans lit ile escapes to a an island and finds a cave in that cave there Is a stone tomahawk with the striking edge so carved as to form a star and leave that mark on the victim also there are ara two very light and narrow cedar canoes with straps for the feet the pioneer finds that in these he can walk the water of the lake every night he goes out every morning some redskin Is found dead in the fo forest rest with the star mark hence alence tied red star the spirit of the lake lied star walked on quiet water but now the news tells us ua that karl of shyrla has eclipsed the beadle hero facing rather he heavy avy seas he has actually walked the water from cape girls nez to dover on water skis the distance is about twenty miles the water skis of 1831 1931 are clearly superior to the strapped on cedar canoes of fancy three quarters of a century ago and once more it tins lins been proved that truth Is 1 stranger than fiction brooklyn eagle |