Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-05-22
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Bill Nye I1GGiges In "reminiscences Of
ChiEdEooti's Nappy EI0urs.

Tie boy III your schooi VINO dld the
heavy falling through the ice, and !;
was always about to break his neck,
but managed to live through it alll
Do you call to mind the youth who
never allowed anybody else to fall .
out Of tree and break his cellar |
bone when he could attend to it |
HIMSELF
Every school has to secure the
services Of such boy before it can
succeed, and 30 our school had one.
When entered the school I saw at
a glance that the board mad neglect
ed to provide itself with a boy
whose duty it was to nearly kill
himself every few days In order to
keep up the interest, so l applied
for the position. l secured it with
cut any trouble whatever. The
board understood at once frou my
bearing that | would succeed. And
l did not betray the trust they had
reposed in me.
Before the first term was over I
had tried to climb two trees at once
and been carried home on a stretch
or; been pulled out of the river
with my lungs full Of water and ar
tifcial respiration resorted to; been
jerked around over the north half
of the county by a fractions horse
whose halter I had tied to my leg,
and which leg is now three inches
longer than the other, together with
various other little eccentricitiss
which [ cannot at this moment call
to mind. My parents at last got SO
that along about two o'clock p. m.
they would look anxiously out Of
the window and say: "Isn't it about
time for the boys to get here with
Williams re,nains2 They generally
get here before two o'clock"
One day five or six of US were
playing Il spy" around the barn.
Everybody knows how to play Il
spy" One shuts his eyes and
counts one hundred, for instance,
while the others hide. Then he
must say 81 spy" so-and-so and
touch tie 'goal" before they do. If
anybody beats him to the goal the
victim has to ''bliEd" over again.
Well, l knew the ground pretty
well, and could drop twenty feet out
Of the barn window and strike On a
pile of straw 80 as to land near the
goal, touch it, and let the crowd in
free without getting found out. !
did this several times and got the
blinder, James Bang, pretty mad.
After a boy has counted five or six
hundred, and worked hard to gath
sr IN the crowd, only to get jeered
and laughed at by the boys, he loses
his temper. 1t was so with james
Cicero Bang. l knew he almost
hated me, and yet l went ON. Fl
nally, in the fifth ballot, l saw E
good chance to slide down and lei
the crowd in again as l had done or
former occasions. l slipped out o
the window and down the side g
the barn about tive feet, when
, was detained unavoidably. Their
was a "batten" on the barn tina
was loose at the upper end. thinl
l was wearing my fathers vest o.
,. that day,as he was away from hom
and frequently wore his clothe
when he was absent. Anyhow tn
vest was too large, and when I sill
e down that loose board ran up bs
: tween the vest and Hny person i
: such way as to suspend me abor
= eighteen feet from the ground in
s prominent but very unconfortaol
e position.
d l remember it yet quite distinc
s James G. Bang came around whe
j. he could see me. He said: IL sF
< Bill Rye and touch ths goal befo
s. him." No ons came to remove IL
% barn. No one seemed to symp
r thize with me in my great sorrc
"a and isolation. Every little viii
t. James G. Bang would come aroul
s. the corner and say: "Oh, I see y
IN You needn't think you're cut
as sight up there. You better cor
1t down and blind. l can see ye l
&C. therer l tried to inhibition a
cy vest and ges down there and Ii
lie James, but it was of no use.
d. 1t was very trying time. [ c.
G. rem ember how I tried to kick m
ho self loose, but failed. Sometime:
lie would kick the barn and sometim
[ would kick large hole in the
rizon. Finally I was rescued BY
at eigabor who said he didn't wa
OF to see a good barn kicked III
H. chaos Just to save a lons-legged b
ne that wasn't worth over six bits.
at 1t affords me great pleasure
KS add that while I am looked up
an and madly loved by every one IL
y does not know me, James 9. Ba
TO is the brevet president Of tractul
IN bank, taking a lonsly bridal tour
gu himself in Europe and waiting
"a the depositors to die Of old age.
II. The mills of the gods grind sic
I@' Il ly, but they most generally
ae there with both feet.
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