A BOY MEETS HIS HERO.
Two explorers met the other day in Aklavik, one or the most north-western corners of Canada. /' One had his head inside his aeroplane .engine. "Anything wrong?" asked the other. "Not that I know of, but I want to make sure," replied the airman. Thereupon they shook hands and parted. Not a very exciting encounter, we might think, and yet to one of these explorers it was the most thrilling of meetings, for he was Hartley de Gerald, a young American boy, whose, father encourages him to explore little-known parts of the world by himself, and the airman whose hand he had just shaken was no other than Lindbergh, the hero of all young Americans. Hartley thinks Lindbergh must have enjoyed being in this place immensely, for the Eskimos treated him as they would anyone else, and for once there was no crowd of excited people making a fuss over him.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 185, 6 August 1932, Page 3 (Supplement)
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