The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1885-04-07
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Dear Iead er, do you rcmomber the
boy of your school who did the heavy
falling through the ice md was always
1 about to break Ills neck but managed
ito Two through it alp Do you call to
! mind the youth who never allowed any
body else to fall out of q tree and break
his collar bone when he could attend to
it himselfP
Every school has to secure tho ser-
vices of such q. boy before It can sue
ceed, and SO our school had one. Whom
Ientered the SCHOOL, saw at q glance
that the board had neglected to pro-
vide itself with q boy whose duty it was
to. nearly kill himself evory few days in
order to keep pfsthe interest, so an
piled for tho position. l secured it
without any trouble whatever. Tho
board understood at once from my
bearing that I would succeed. And L
did not betray the trust thoy had re-
posed in me.
before the first torn was over had
tried to climb two trees at onco and
been carried home on o stretcher; been
pulled out Of the river with my lungs
full OF wator and artificial respiration
resorted to; been jorked around over
the north half of the county by a frac-
tiols horse whose halter I had tied to
my leg, and which log is now three
inches longer than tho other, together
with various otherlittl early eccen-
tricities whichI cannot at this moment
call to mind parents at last got
80 That along lNSSSf o. 'olock D. IN. they
would look anXiously out of tho window
and say, "Isn't it about time for tho
boys to- get here with Williams re-
mainsP They generally get hero before
One day five or six of us were playino
~ spy" around our barn. Everybody
knows how to play Il spy" One shuts
his eyes and counts 100, for instance,
while the others hido. Then he must
find tho rest and say II spy" so-and-so
and touch tho "goal" before they do.
II anybody beats him to tho goal tho
victim ha. to ''blind'' over again.
VOL, know the ground pretty we'll.
and could drop twenty fc;t out of the
barn window and strike on a pile of
straw SO as to land near tho goal, touch
it, and lot tho crowd in free without
getting found cut. l did this several
times and got tho binder, James Bang,
pretty mad, After a boy has counted
6oo or GOO, and worked hard to gather
IN the crowd, oply to cot ieored and
laughed at by tho boys, he loses his
temper, 1t was so with James Cicero
bang, knew that he almost hated
mo. and yet went on. Finally, in tho
NTH ballot. l saw good chance TO
slldo down and let tho crowd in again
as had dono on former occasions. I
slipped out of the window and down
tho side Of tho barn about two feet,
when was detained unavoidably.
There was u "hatton" on tho barn that
was loose ut the uppor ond. think |
was wearing my fathers vost Oh that
DAY, as nc was away from homo and I
frequently wore his clothes when he was
absent, Anyhow tho vest was too
large, and when l slid down that loose
board ran up between tho vest and NV
person in such way rs to suspend me
about eighteen feet from the ground in
prominent, but very uncomfortable,
position.
L remember it yet quite distinctly.
James &, Bang came around where he
could SEQ me. Hc said: Il spy Billy
Nyo and touch tho goal before him. "
NO ono camc to remove the barn. No
one seemed to sympnthize with mo in
my great sorrow und isolation. Every
little while JameSea1Isang would come
around tho oornertafid Say: 80, I seq
yc. You needn't think you're ont of
sight up thcre. l can sec you real plain.
You better como down and blind, I
can sec yo up therc!''
tried to unbutton my vest md oct
down there and licl; james, but IL Vas
of no use. 'o
1t was very trying time. can rc-
menhcr how / tried to XII myself
iooso, but failed. Sometimes I Would
KICK tho barn and sometimes T would
Kick laSgo hole i'll tho horizon. FL
hnliy l was rescued by a ncighbor who
sald ne didn't want TO sec n srood barn
Kicked into chaos just to save a long
legged hoy that wasn't worth over six
!, 1t affords me groat plcaspro to add
Shat While l am looked up to and mad
~ loved by every ono that doos net
R RnoW me- James G. Bang is the brevct
frosidcnt OF ii fractured bank, taking !,
lonely bridal tour by himself in Europe
ana waiting for the depositors to die OF
Iho mills of tho gods grind slowly,
put tnoy most generally get there with
both teot, (Adaptcd from the French
by pcrmission.)