49th Parallel Page #3

Good night.

[Johnnie] "Ship time at Rangnirtung"

Say, where the ship?

I've been answering that question

till I'm fair sick and tired of it.

Not a soul comes through this post

that doesn't ask it, huskies and all.

"Where's the ship, boss?

Where's the ship?"

- Bien, alors, where is she?

- Behind the hill!

Ah, oui Bien sr.

Come on. Sit down.

Well, what's the news from home, eh?

Some good, some bad.

Everyone is well. That is good.

Business is slow. That is bad.

My father say it is because of them war rumours.

But he tell me no worry.

This Hitler is only bluffing.

And he said they all say

there will be no war this year or next year.

You look to me as I go mad.

Of course, I was forgetting.

You can't have seen a paper in over a year.

What do you mean?

- Has it happened, then?

- Sure it's happened. Bigger than the last.

Nom de dieu!

- Who fighting?

- Mostly everybody.

- Who starting first?

- Oh, the Germans, of course.

They marched in on the Poles

in September 1939.

- The Poles?

- Sure.

Ma foi, I thought all the Poles was in Canada!

No, no, Johnnie.

They've given Poland a terrible time.

Wiped out Warsaw.

And those poor refugees you know, the women

and children who tried to get away ...

... they machine-gunned them down.

[French]

The Germans are ordinary men,

same as you and me.

I wouldn't do a thing like that. Would you?

Well, you can't tell me they do.

That's all newspaper talk to try and bring us in.

Hmpf. A wee bit late, Johnnie, my lad.

We are in.

Canada, in the war?

Sure she is.

Didn't you hear the bombing tonight?

Bombing?

Was that bombing?

Sure. One of our planes went across.

Maneuvering, I suppose.

Yi-yi-yi-yi.

So, Canada, she in the war.

[Scoffs]

Pas possible

Anyhow, you can't tell me

French Canada got mixed in it too.

- I certainly can.

- Nom de dieu!

No. They're in it just the same as everybody else.

But that beat me!

I don't see what for French Canada

had to go to defend a bunch of Poles!

I don't get that at all.

I don't see what that mean to us.

Anyhow, one kind government ...

... much same like 'nother.

Yeah, you're right there.

They're all the same.

Don't get you nowhere.

Anyhow, we needn't worry about it out here.

I guess all we got to do

is just to do our jobs.

[Scoffs] Hmpf. That suit me.

- What about a wee drink, Johnnie, eh?

- That suit me too. [Laughs]

[Wind Whistling]

## [Whistling]

- Well, here's the skin off your nose.

- And off yours too, you old walrus.

[Both Chuckling]

Ay-yi-yi.

I won't sleep well tonight.

- Never do first night in real bed.

- ## [Discordant Notes]

I was just the same when I was trapping.

- Oh, but you get used to it in a couple of nights.

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