A REAL MAN'S HAT...from "DOWN UNDER!"
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O my adventurous, afraid-of-nothing, outdoorsman---
Who roams the world taking risks, competing,
and vying and never shirking
dangerous challenges...
O WHEN---YOU ACCOMPLISH EVEN ONE OF
THESE FEATS...Yes, even ONE!
You should be wearing....just read on:
---Hike all the way through the Grand Canyon...
---Climb Mt. McKinley...
---Walk the Appalachian Trail, one end to the other...
---Kayak thru the Bering Strait from Homer to Wrangell...
---Winter at Pt Barrow and have a wresting match
with a Polar Bear...and win...
---Sail solo around Cape Horn thru the Roaring Forties
in a small barque....
---Or you catch the biggest rainbow even taken
from the Rio Grande Box...
---Or wrestle a twenty-foot Python on the "River of No
Return," and you return...
---Maybe you've gone over Niagara Falls in a barrel...
---Spend the winter working at the South Pole, and
do the famous New Year's Eve Stroke-of-Midnight-
Au-Buffo-Run, outdoors at 60 below, 100 yards
around the flagpole and back...
---Were shipwrecked in the far South Auckland Islands
and managed to build a shelter and. come out alive...
---You have a hand-to-claw fight with a giant Grizzly up
in the Yukon, and then outrun him...
---You spend a summer in hot Patagonia doing penguin
research...
---You once walked clear across the 1600 mile Gobi
Desert with a companion...
---You have encountered and defeated eight of the ten
world's most poisonous snakes in Australia...
---You walk from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean,
with two camels, a journey across the Outback of
1700 miles...
My friend, wherever you hail from, or whatever your calling---
If you've done any single one of these afore-mentioned
deeds...or similar unmentioned ones...then---
---You Oughta Be Wearing...a Real Man's Hat...
A COOBER PEDY... from Down Under!
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BY MIL
27 MAR 17
