Show BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Pierre Great Hunter Found Something He Could Not Kill KillBy By BILLY ROSE From the province of Manitoba in Canada comes the strange tale of Pierre the hunter Your acceptance or rejection rejection rejection tion of it will depend on the kind of pixies under your hat For many years Pierre a man with the strength of a caribou lived In almost medieval splendor in a chateau overlooking Lake Only two things Interested him hunting him hunting and drinking and the measure of the man was that he was more concerned with the potency than the taste of his liquor and cared little what it was he shot as long as he made the kill When he was forty he married Emilie a n girl of good family from the Winnipegosis district district district dis dis- and when she presented him with a son a year later he toasted his heir in Hudson r 71 M J Bay rum and pro pro- s j h i dieted that he too v pree e would s some o 0 m e day L. L be a great hunter His wife however however how how- t ever hat hated e d the fp continual continuo killing and as the child chUd g grew r e c w older she 00 was happy that he showed no Lacuna Lacuna- Billy Rose tion for or the hunt To encourage his love of wild life she gave him a silver medallion of St. St Francis of Assisi patron saint of birds and beasts and hung it around his neck on a thin gold chain Ive heard it said that when p people e o 0 p l 1 e die their souls enter other living things sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times an animal she told him A FEW I MONTHS S be before ore the boys boy's ninth birthday his father found a new born fawn in the forest and presented it to his son The lad named it Francois bottle fed bottle ed it until the shakiness went out of its legs and trained it until it followed followed fol fol- fol lowed him around like a puppy On his Ms birthday a few jew weeks later Pierre gave his son ton another Present resent a specially constructed rifle small enough for a boy to carry but in all other respects an efficient instrument of 0 destruction tion Tomorrow he said we will go hunting The youngster said nothing but later asked his mother what he should do You must go with your father ather said Emilie You told me that when people die their souls go into animals said the boy it be like killing a person Your father thinks differently I wont won't shoot to hit anything said the lad Pierre who had been drinking on the porch overheard the conversa conversa- tion Addressing himself to his son he said There will be no more women's talk You will become a aman aman aman man and a hunter like your father Tomorrow we go to the woods but your first lesson lesion will be tonight Take your rifle rine and shoot the fawn Terrified the boy nodded and went to the barn He prodded the fawn with a stick and tried to frighten it into the forest but the pet thinking It was a 3 new game took a few play playful ul leaps and then frisked back for more sport Finally the boy placed the medallion medallion medal medal- lion of St. St Francis around the fawns fawn's neck It needed divine protection protection protection pro pro- more than he HALF ALF AN HOUR later Pierre Pierrc back on the porch was roused from his rum by a 3 shot and walked out outto outto outto to the barn certain that the boy like a true l had obeyed his order Instead on the earth floor noor he found his sons son's body blood oozing oozing OOZe ing through the shirt while the fawn awn the medallion dangling from its neck stood near by Crazed Pierre picked up the rifle and pumped the remaining bullets into the animals animal's heart Then |