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Canadian Forestry Journal, January, ipi6. 



The Visitor: "What crime brought you here?" 

 The Man in Stripes: "I burned down a fifty-dollar shed. 



The Vishin ''G?eat Scott! We settlers burned down a milhon dollars worth 

 of Ontario's forests last summer and nobody said 'Boo!'" 



mewsoaoer note: "Eighty-five out of every hundred forest fires in Ontario dur- 

 ing mS were caused by careleso settler.*. Unlike British Columbia and Quebec, 

 settlers in this province have no supervision-of their clearing fires during the danger 

 season.") 



