Show BO davv a 14 0 the dionne through the eyes of my aly old guide PERCY ERCY HAMILTON the best guide and fisherman along the whole gatineau chain recently hied himself to callender ontario for the single purpose of casting eyes upon the dionne he disappeared upon the precise date when I 1 needed him most while this upset me to begin with there was nothing to do but forgive him wh when en I 1 learned his motive you I 1 asked have had an eyeful of those kids after the bass season closed 1 I could that replied percy stretching his suspenders from under his armpits and had just as good a look at em as anybody else leaning over the fence aro around und doctor dafies hospital where he has charge of the babies in the name of the king but something said go to it perc it is only a few miles less than three hundred from my house to his just a few hours across country in my timber hopping gasoline tank and worth two days of any mans time I 1 sure could have waited but being the kind of a man I 1 am crazy about children the father of four girls of my own and with all my cifes aar in to get into my jitney for a round trip to cauender callender what the hell was I 1 to do but say come with me to the quintuplet show and have a look becomes conducted tour percy again pulled out his suspenders which popped back with a loud crack like the beaver makes when slapping the water with his tail you did exactly the right thing mr hamilton and it 1 is my pleasure to be among the first to congratulate you how many ladies w were ere in your party about five that I 1 could see answered sw ered my old guide and no less than a dozen that I 1 could only hear they seemed to swarm into the back seat at every crossroad along the way have thought that at least half of them were the mot mothers of the and wanted to slip the old doc some new stull stuff on wh what at was best to be done right away or take the consequences A tire blowout along the route and I 1 would have been massacred thanks to careful driving keeping the front wheels on the road while le negotiating corduroy bridges through overflow country we bumped along at 30 miles aw an hour and about 4 p m made the front fence of what dr dafoe calls the dionne hospital the two provincial police who keep the line moving and see that the roads are kept open saw right away that we had come to see the and not the crowd from which way jack asked one ot 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 ladies with me are my kinfolk kinsfolk kin folk says 1 I and can we see the qu ints sure thing keep your eyes on the glass fronted veranda where they show up when the notion takes them A good look free of charge if you have patience pa dionne gets fan I 1 mail my old guide did another suspender stretch firing both barrels in in unison when you stop to think that the canadian kids are the only ones out of 35 sets of quintuplets quintuple ts born during the last years that came through aarin and are still alive continued mr hamilton why I 1 stick around to have an eyeful man alibel exclaimed the guide from lake macgreegor Mac Greggor and grand just over the hill 1 I saw them come out in ones twos and I 1 was about to say threes but you know what I 1 mean until the five of them were in sight mind you the windows some newfangled new patent allows people outside to see in but the cant see out good idea that five girls at any age take it without blowing up im the father of four born one at a time and I 1 know asure do know A forward gesture from the armpit out a crack like a pistol shot and mr hamilton continued it was good business for the government to take over the job of bringing those girls up under dr dafoe leaving mr and mrs dionne time to raise the kids they have left they have six other ringlets sing lets living a nine following the who weighed the whole five of them less than ten pounds at birth more suspender artillery from mr hamilton not yet three years of age they are now worth close to a million dollars old man dionne gets a bigger fan mail than clark gable at 50 cents a throw pe he drags down a week for his signature while mrs mr s dionne the most talked about mother in the world is in the money a dozen different ways ill say its coming to her I 1 ai a U service |