The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-22
WEnE 4 noY AoAIN.
A Celebrated IIulnorist Relates Some Of His
Youthful EGporIenseS
lC0PyHghi 1856

same wild passion Tor plucAlnR WAIeF lle
ous in the dark OF the moon, l would n
doubt fall victim to that overmasterin
passion as i did before, but looking at
"a do now, would be wIser. Boys car
not, however, have the mature iudgmen
Of manhood without the experience an
rheumatism that 90 with 1t, So It Is bel
tel that in our childhood We may be abb
to eat q raw turnip with safety, aud knoN
something later on In lille,
l noticed great change In mysel
while comparing my present condition
with that Of joyous boyhood' Then hal
no sense, but mad . good digestion
Now haven't even the digestion.
The hurrying years have cAVorted owe
my sunny head till they have worn
smooth, bat they have left q good dea
vet for ma to learn, l am still engaget
In learning during the day and putting
arniCa on my experience at night,
Childhood is said 10 be the most glad
some period in our lives, and In some 70
spects this statement may DO regarded q!
reliable, but IL ia not all JOY. hayO haC
iust AS InuCh fun In later yeara 81 did in
hoyhood, though the people with WHOM
/ have been thrown in contact claim lhal
their experience has been different !
hope they do not mean anything personal
by that.
boy again, but | smother that Wish on &C.
count Of my parents, What they need
most Ia reat and change OF scene. They
still enjoy children, but they would LIE
chsnCs 10 select the children with whom
they associate. e -,
eyed and beautiful little hoye, three Of
WHOM grew up and by that meanS be-
csmo adults. | am In that condition my.
self. was the eldest OF the family with
the exception oil my parents. ! am stil!
that way. My early life WAS rather tenn;
p,s,uous in places, occasionally licked
with sunshine, but more frequently with
Ietribution. wa not 0 very good roads-
ter when young, and 30 TatribuLion was
'uost always Just In tho act OF oyertaktng
me, While outraged justiCe was getting
in its work on me, the other boys es-
capped through small aperture in the
fence.
That Ia another reason why DO not
yearn 10 be boy again.
When we ran away from school to
catch clubs, and when we built a fire to
cook them and the dre got into the tall
dry grass and burned Tour milea d fence
and sixteen tons Of hay for q gentleman
for whom had high regard, and went
back 10 pat out tho fire, the other boys
escaped and they have 30 remained ever
since,
A Just reEIibution has never had any
difficulty In ovartaEiDH mo and walking
up and down over my wlshhopR,
When Il party Of US had bsen engaged
in gathering EssIeE eggs In the barn OF
gentleman who was away from homo 81
The time, and no returned juet as We had
filled our pockets with the choicest vint'
aye Of his sun.kissed hens, the other boys
escaped while | was occupying tho atten'
tion Of the dog, aud had To Glide out the
second story OF the barn. It 10 still tregh
in my mind aa l write. I wore my faith
er's vest at that time and II wss larger
than was necessary. My father was larger
than / OF that time, Tor l was only
nine years Of age and had rot arrived
al my full stature. Ia sliding down the
battcn discovered that the upper end
OF Il was looee and that my flowing vest
had tlipped over 1t, co that when got
down sbont four feet hung with the
board bnttUuGd inside my bos6m aud the
scrambled eggsoczng cut OF my kricker'
baCkerg.
Tbs bstten had sprung back against the
barn in such a way as to prevent my I'M
buttoning my vest, and while hung
there on the side Of the barn Ike coon
skin, tho proprietor came around and &C
cueea me pt pFema.urely gathering hit
eggs. go,
Of BIZ people who had dab6led In 1t more
or lepp, and 80 I resolved 10 try II In tbiI
instance. So ] admitted that such wal
the case, and 1t was the best thing Coulc
have done, for the man said 60 ! had beer
60 frank with him he would ia 20 me dowl
AZ coon ss he got his otherw done, arc
he was as good 80 hIs word. After he hat
MIXED nine cows aud fed nine calves ht
came around with ladder and took int
down. He also spanked me and set tbt
dog on me, but I did not mind that for
was a accuStomGd Ia g.. To hang on the
side Of barn, however, ike IA autumn
leaf, trying 10 kick large holes IN the at
moaphere, d diSpgreeab!e.
This incident cast p gloom oyer my
whole lilo. II has also reCnnClled me t
/ the sSful decree that / eau never be
boy again.
TRYING TIE LYNcuElls.