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  TOP OF THE FENCE  Chapter one is over for Mr. Log… he’s prisoner now in a raft… and he has 60 miles to go  down Lake Nipigon… towed by tug...

  GUTS AND GRACE As far as Port Arthur goes  this story starts in Lake Nipigon...that lovely lake beloved by moose hunters and fishermen.   ...

  LIKE A BALLET DANCER That serves to introduce a former Maritimer Bob Matchett .  They say he is a “Pretty Catty”. He only weighs 160 pou...

  ROUGH, BURLY, MAGNIFICENT Now, a Maritimer may eat a lot of herring bones and codfish and so on…but, they also feed on pride… and I  was...

  “PRETTY CATTY” The People’s Paper Canada March 16, 1949 John Fisher Scans: “Pretty Catty” These men are rough and tough,  They...

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