The Columbian fountain., 1846-01-31

i he hlil-5luc Slope III iIOilt,
How glorious to the view! ia .#
We used to slide full half a mile
On slcds and dus-out5 tcw!
sThe boys may gwout" says the school
master, says h., one aternopn ! and d.
YOU 60 and break your eternal necks a ridin'
down hill in that hog troth, and you see
what you'll ketch when SIT holt on you,
that's all Stop Come back, all on you
come back! Is,that the way TO gwou,, like
passel Of skeert sheep, runnin' over one
another' Where's your manners? Haint
| told you nrore'n hundred times bout
thai? Now start, one tn time, and when
you get to the door, turn round and make
your manners every one on you. Sy flar-
rngton come right strait back here, Sir
You're terrible smart feller, amt you?-
Mebbv you thought didn't see you when
you was pretendin' to make q bow, bump
your forfard agin Reuben Johnson's rose
on purpose! Jest see, how you made il
bleed: Don't cry Reuben, il'll feel better
arter its done achin." rae
ssl didn't go tn do it, Rube come pnshn'
up Jest as ! turned round to make my II an
iltTS, ufu Ht AlhND IoOh " uu ~ " SSs
hiitln him on the nose" s.v
"What did you push up that fashion fur,
Reuben; hadn't you no more sense than
tbaton
g couldn't help it, Jim Wright stu a
pin into me, and it kinder made me mp
forrard a little, and''- - sat
I "Wall, go long out, both on you, and be-
have yourselves, and tell Jeems Wright TO
come. here; have business Of importance
tn do with him"
And away went the boys, and they hadn'I
been out two minnets afore they was both
mounted on hand sled .streakin' it down
/ hill like chain lite'nin. There wasn't a boy
T in school that wasn't coasrln in some way
or another. Some was on sleds, some on
planks, some on logs, some on wooden
trays; and them that hadn't nothIn' else to
ride on, would set flat down on the ice, and
let others drag'em by two strings tied round
their ankles But they all remembered
what Doctor Phil Ant'ny told 'en,, and no
BODY didn't fetch the big hog-troth. There
it stood, right on the starting pint as crazy
as hair trigger tu 60 OF. Hr
1--we seen dozen fellows git into it, all
twisted together like bed Of eels in cold
weather, and slide down like streak, and
all tumble into soft snow-bank together
tn the bottom Of the hill, like young rats in
meal tub. Wall, putty soon Doctor fhil
Ant'ny come out of the school house to look
for jim Wright, but Jim had jest started in
his little tray--the swiftest craft on the
track, 'cept the big hog-troth--and his
bushy red hair was beglnnin' to stream back
like blaze of fire. "Stop" cried Doctor
Phil, astop, you little sarpants or Pll be ar
ter you, and give you the wust lckln' you
ever had in your life." @
aI CAN'T" cried Jim, lookin, back, "the
critters got started, and taint no use tn try
tn stop her now't she's got the bit in her
teeth"
aBy the thunder and lte'nin'" hollered
Doctor Phil, and stomped down his fcS.,
and up flew both his heels, and dowr he
went backwards, kerwollop, into the hog
roth, and away he went, with his feet stick
ing up, right in Jim's wake. lin seen him
coming, and he put spurs to his hoss that
Is to say, he stuck his spikes into the ice
and pushed ahead, as if he was Soaring
faom railroad On went Doctor Phil ..Is
whirlwind and he was overtakin' Ji'n
hand over hand, or rather heels over head,
and was just runnin' afoul OF him, when the
tro,h fetched lump of ice and sheered OIL
tangent. The boys all stopped and look
ed at the schoolmaster, some on 'cm coma
most astonished oli Of their breath, and
others ready to bursta laifin'. Whiz 'Tan'
the troh down the steepest part ol the hiis
] An old log, half buried in the ice, l2Y