The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1885-09-25
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BIZ Nye Indulges In "Reminiscences OF
Ch,ldhood's Happy Hours

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BIZ Nye INDUCES In "Reminiscences q
Chlahood's Happy Hours
Dear reader. do you remember thu
boy in your school who did the heavy
| falling through the ice, and was always
about to break his neck. but managed
to live through it ali? Dc you call t
mind tae youth who never allowed any.
body else to fall out OF tree and break
his collar bone when he could attend. -
il himself? -
Every school has to secure the
services of such a boz before it can sue.
coed, and so our school had one When
entered the school | saw at a glance
that the board bad neglected to provide
ITSELF with G BOY whose duty it was 10
nearly xiii himself every few days il.
order 20 keep up the interest. 30 | sp-
plisd for the position. / secured il
without any trouble wha,s9er. The
board understood al once from my
bearing thai would succeed. And 7
did not botray the trust they had re-
posed IN nse.
Il
tired 10 climb two trees at once and
been carried home on {. stretcher; been
pulled ont OF the river with my lungs
full OF weter and artificial respiration
resorted to; been jer.ked around over
the north half of the county BY Q frac-
tious heTse whose halter I<had tied 10
my leg, and which leg is now three
inches longer than the other. together
with various other little eccentricities
which can rot at this moment call to
mind Ny parents Mt last got so that
along about two O'Clock y. IN. thew
would looil anxiously out Of the win
dow and say: Isn't It about time for
the BOYS % ret here with Williams re
mains? They generally get here before
two o'clock.
One dsy FIVE or SIX of us were play
ing Il SPY" around orr barn. Every
bod, knows how 20 play ~ spy" One
shuts his eyes and counts one hundred,
for instance, while the Others hide.
Then he must find the rest and say Il
SPY so-aad-so aud touch the goal
before they do. IL anybody beats him
to the goal the victim has to blind
over again.
Well, | knew the ground pretty well,
and could drop twenty feet out of the
barn window and strike on a pile of
straw so as to land near the goal, touch
it. ard let the crowd in free without
getting found out. | did this several
times and got the binder, james Bang,
pretty mad. After boy has counted
five hundred or six hundred, and
worked hard to gather in the crowd.
only to get jeered and laughed at By
the boys, he loses his temper. Il was
80 with James Cicero Bang. l knew
that he almost hated me. and yet went
On. Finally, in the fifth ballot l saw a
good chance to slide down and let the |
crowd in again rs / had done on former
slipped out of the window
nd down the side of the bern about
Iwo feet, when was detained I'M |
,voidably- There WAS Il ''batten" ON |
he barn that was loose at the upper |
nd think was wearing my fathers |
rest on that day, as he was away from |
ZONE and frequently wore his clothes
When he was absent ANYHOW the vest |
.as too large, and when I slid down |
ka. loose board ran up between tho
lest cpd my person in such n way as TO
uspend me about eighteen feet from
Inc ground in q prominent, but very I'M
position.
l remember it vet quite distinctly. |
lanes c. Bang came around where he |
'ould see me. tie said: II spy Bill Nye |
md touch the goal befoA him." No |
me came 10 remove the barn. No one
eemed to sympathize with me In my
.reat sorrow and isolation. Every little
while james c. Bang would come
round the corner and say: 20 see 70.
lou needn't think you're out of sigh.
lp there. l can see you real plain.
fou better come down and blind. /
an see re up there,'
| tried TO inhibition my vest and get
own there and lick James, but it was
4 no use.
It was very trying time. ! can re-
member how l tried TO kick myself |
pose, but failed. Sometimes would
icS the barn and sometimes would
.ick y large hole in the holzon. II
ally was rescued by = neighbor who
aid he didn't want TO SEQ good barn
licked into chaos just TO save long
egged boy that wasn't worth over six
its.
1t affords me great pleasure TO add
Int while / an looked up to and mad
I loved by every one that docs net
now me, james G. Bang is the brevet
resident OF fractured bank, taking
,nely bridal tour by himself in Europe
nd waiting for tho depositors to die OF
ID age
The mills Of the gods grind slowly.
ut they most generally get there with
9th feet. adapted from the French by