Daily British Whig (1850), 5 Feb 1918, p. 10

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© 5, 1918. a Tommy RARITY the Western Front in France.--A scene at an advanced dressing station during the battle. ~Photo by Courtesy of 0. P. R, Nae Ammunition stacked on the British Western Front réady to be sent up the line by : 5. Bit Official Photo From Italy.--A scene on the roadside. motor lorry. - =~Photo by Courtesy of C. P. R. --Photo by Courtesy of C, Jack, the mascot, stops playing to watch the de - On the British Western Front.--Oold work in the snow filling cams at a water point. Guarding his master's kit, " parture of a lorry and wonders he is not there, : : ~Photo by Courtesy of ¢. P. I. as he always takes his trip to the he nt every night. : 0 0 = Photd oy couritey of 0. P. P. BR. T a, of C. NOT A TOTEM POLE HIS figure is neither a totem. : pole nor a snow figure. It is the { body of a great mountain goat shaggy in his hard-weather clothing. On the higher slopes of the mountain, 'the lower approach of which is seen in the background, this goat ranged and rustled in the fall of 1916. On , his right, as he peered dowh over the cliffs, "he often sepled the ribbon of ¢ trail which passed through the Ver: 'milion Pass, on its way to link the Columbia Valley with the Canadian national patk at Banff, Alberta. } But one day when the blinding blizzard of these perks' whirled and Toared around the immovable cliffs [of the goat's range he drifted down "Ite the edge of the spriice forest. It Was 'more pleasant there. A gun cracked, and he knew no more. Down through the timber the skiwearing hunter skidded his catch. by the * -hatng: the passage drawing the lilnbe back as shown in tie picture, and the 'weather fieexing it rigid. At the 'amy, in a desire to gel & proper per. spective of the biggest goat of the sea on the hunter stood (he body in the snow, close Beside the trzil, and there fi remained uniil more newt was wanted. Por weeks its frozen eves Ciysiared fixedly ar the peaks where - oper §t roamed, and wher eyes then 34 1ates were Browsing and rustling, doubitiéss Laving already forgotten Bim. For in the Bunting eountey Tt. 18 Always Tho survival of the fittest, no Ohs Worries abbal the ry Sn EE Sl silat

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