FROM THE LIZARD

FIRST LETTER

Actually this time it is not from the Lizard, but from Redeye.  As you all know the Lizard has a short fuse.  He is pissed off about the lack of interest in the photo book and the slowness of the dues payments.  The few photo’s that he has gotten in are done badly and will look like shit in the book that he is trying to get together.  Only about 10 of the members have sent in their dues.

Lizard and I can’t do it all.  It takes about $40 dollars to send out one newsletter.  If we do it in color it costs about $80.00.

You have all been around Lizard and you can imagine what the column he sent to me looked like.  Fortunately, I was too busy to send it out right away, because two days later he told me to tone it down a bit.  Consider this the toned down letter from Lizard.

Now onto the specifics.

1)              The photo’s need to be clear and taken on a bright day.

2)              You need to send in the information that Lizard will enter on the page.

3)              Turn the camera sideways (see Lizards instruction sheet on the following page) so that we can get more face and body and less sky in the pictures.  Besides with the oval frames that we are going to use it is about the only way that the photo’s are going to fit.

4)              Hurry up.

FROM THE LIZARD

SECOND LETTER

Well Folks, I Don’t Know What To Say.  (That is a first for me.)

I am glad I didn’t finish High School, because most of the people that did are nuts!!

I am getting some pictures in (slower than a turtle run over by a truck) and guess what?  The are not any way close to being done right.  You have to turn your camera on “end”.  Both pictures have to be done this way to fit in the oval frames like the sample in your possession.  They don’t have to be exactly perfect, but an inch short or tall is too much. 

Shoot up a whole role of 12 pictures and that will give you 6 tries at different distances to get it right.  Then take the best two and send them to me!!  It not hard to look through the little window and see if you need to step up or back a little.  DUH!

On the following page is a real simple instructions.

Send in the info on yourself - Age-State-Etc. You’re not sending this information in either.  DUH

Our overseas members need to get your pictures in.  You guys will have a special section in the book.  Willie, I mean you too, and Peter, J.D, Hugo and A.J.  You guys have plenty of time to get in your pictures, cause I will process them last.

DUES ARE DUE

Just another reminder

FROM OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

M. A. TAYLOR, Esq.

Safari

I was working on a railway line through Zululand.  I had not brought a gun, but had brought a lock - an East Indian Com­pany carbine flint lock (look for the little lion) Bakers pattern from Kabul.  The lock cost me 75 cents!

So what to use as a barrel?  Rock drill .25 jumper ‘express’: stocked in South African pine: roof iron and jam tin mounts: splendid.  Pot belly cape Dutch style, definately suitable.

But powder?  I ‘borrowed’ some fuses, unwound them and even if a trifle fine, I was in business.  Slugs of battery lead, shoved down with a number 8 fence wire rod. 

My mate was better armed: he made a spear.  And chase the Springbok we did, over kopje and flat top, woods and gullys.  I should like to relate the epic hunt, but cannot as we never did get close enough.

Great fun, not remotely legal - that a minor detail.  Later camp by the White Umflozi river had polished stumps and piles of droppings.  In the shade of the lancewoods we had built a kia or mud hut and there were stumps and droppings.  The former haunt of rhinocerous - we did not tackle those chaps.