Maclean's

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FICTION

Horse Doctor

What a splash! The Big Fish are off to the hilarious climax of the World's Maddest Marathon By JAMES A. COWAN38 min

14

FICTION

The Red Ape of Pontianak

A weirdly dramatic tale of a creature that came out of the jungle to teach terror and courage to conquering man By JAMES FRANCIS DWYER27 min

10

FICTION

THE RUNT

A story of sand-hog courage and a duel that not even a caisson disaster could terminate By BORDEN CHASE23 min

4

FICTION

The Pink-soap Princess

He was hired to drive her car but he found that life was much more complicated than that By ELISABETH SANXAY HOLDING22 min

16

GENERAL ARTICLES

REVOLT in QUEBEC

The third of a series of articles presenting a French-Canadian’s interpretation of the reform movement in Quebec By VICTOR C. SOUCISSE16 min

8

GENERAL ARTICLES

"Co-op" Conquest

The story of the remarkable success of the co-operative movement in Eastern Nova Scotia By WILL R. BIRD13 min

12

GENERAL ARTICLES

Capital of the North

Fort Smith, population 300, is the seat of government for 2,250,000 square miles of Canada’s vast northern hinterland By LESLIE ROBERTS11 min

8

SPORT

The Gamest Fish

"He’s tops as a fighter," says this master fisherman of the small-mouth bass —"He never knows when he’s licked"

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GENERAL ARTICLES

I AM WRITING this in London after a tempestuous moving and fantastic fortnight spent in going to and from America on the Queen Mary’s maiden voyage, sleeping two nights on a train, two nights in New York, dining in Montreal, lunching in Ottawa, and being back home in exactly a fortnight. By Beverley Baxter8 min

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WOMEN AND THE HOME

Shortcake Season

THEY MAY be called "short" because it takes so little time to make them. Or it may he becaiNt they disappear so quickly. Whatever the reason—and it doesn’t matter anyway —there is no doubt that shortcakes in all their variety are among the most elegant and delicious of desserts. By HELEN G. CAMPBELL8 min