Show thriller of long ago outdone by invention way back in their boyhood reading illicit reading with the yellow back in the big geography and the teacher not too vigilant some men who are now can recall a beadle thriller with the title red ked star the spirit of the lake A white pioneer has had all his bis family murdered by the indians lip esert escapes pes to an island and finds a cave in that cave there Is it stone tomahawk with the striking edge so carved as to form a star and leave that mark on the victim also there are 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 s found dead in the forest with the star mark billed star the spirit of th the lake 11 red lied star walked on quiet water but now the news tells us that karl of shyrla shyria has eclipsed the bendle beadle hero facing rather heavy sens seas he has actually walked the water from cape gris nez to dover on water skis the distance Is about twenty miles the water skis of 1931 are clearly superior to the strapped on cedar canoes of fancy three quarters of a century a ao ago o and once more it has been proved that truth Is stranger than fiction brooklyn eagle |