out u! (he forest, lie is a big man with huge knotty hands and looks slightly incongrous as he stands in front of his gathering of history buffs dtitpcd in cameras and guide books, hand bags and sun glasses.

Each day, Bert opens the doors to the museum, collects the money and assembles his flock to hear his message. The yarn he tells is invariab­ly the same but he loves it. He is telling a yarn that came to him from his lather, I he tales he remembers from when he was a boy. Some of the characters he speaks of were his mates. Most of them have gone.