The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1888-03-12
A BADLF CUT UP BOZ.
Only Twelve Yenrs Old, but has Wounds
Enough 60 Stock n REGIMENT.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 11.-Battered and
scared like unto n veteran OF many wars IA
Oscar. the 12-ycar-old son OF ASel Smith. an
engineer. who lives over In Oakland. The boy
has had rs many dangerous cuts and wounds
MS he would ordinarily got in two or three lie.
times. His mother estimates that he must
have lost by this time at least q barrel of
blood by his various accidents, and that about
three out OF his twelve years have been spent
In bed recovering from his wounds. His latest
escapade, performed two or three weeks ago,
was to jump from q barn loft fifteen feet into
the NOW below. In his descent he struck the
slivered end of a fork handle standing erect in
the NOW. and a fragment penetrated his
thigh about four inches. He tried to draw 1t
out and broke 1t of in the wound. The doctor
probed for 1t and brought out a piece OF fork
handle three inches long and as large as ones
fingcr. He will soon be out OF bed again and
reauy for another adventure.
About Ave years ngo he and another boy got
mold OF an axo apiece and went to work, facing
e Gscar other 'asr.S 9r a log which lay between them.
eeived, on the top Of his head the full force ola
blow from his companions axe. The effects
got around again and had. two toes cut OF by a
mattock in tho hands Of another boy. Soon
n5tssMs5f 10 S aa1 Of nP twG cs Ris i Miss 8 Knife he
ana a. a a"S!se tw tlm sss ss I tSpo a y bi E t sslds 90 f ssss
s.Sy seN u ooONo tho WY AAto Ia
hefdinss The e rake siiea dqsn wi. With s both III feet sssf BY : d des:
Peratc effort drew his foot from the teeth. As
IT came on the, blood spurted 80 high that IT
young Oscar to his bed in q dellrious condition
for two weeks. As soon rs he was about again
ne pnlntod the other foot on the Same rake,
though he did not get quite SO bad o wound as
before.
The next thing he did was to jump Of q
bottle. nearly cut the heel OF his left foot. As
soon as he was out Of bod he jumped OF the
same fence again, and. as he mover does things
by halves, struck M,, the other foot on another.
the sole Of tho foot to the bone. and narrowly
escaped bleeding to death.
While dressing himself one morning he was
trying to balance. himself on a stick OF stove
stove; He burned . strip across his abdomen
the size OF . beefs tongue. and this Kept him
in bod for six months.
Two years ago he took a plank and started
out to be a pirate, He took a half dozen sand
sdly on it and foated OF With / the outeoInT tide.
He was having q Jolly ride and rapidly getting
out toward the billowy ocean. whom an incom-
Ing schooner picked him up. very much against
bis Will. and saved him Tor still other hair
hang by his toes to the outside window ledge
of q second story. The result was three broken
ribs and a cracked collar bone. ..
HIS parents have come to consider 1t the reRu-
broken bone. and are much more astonished II
bedtime finds him safe and sound than they are |
Il he has to be probed, sewed up, or bandaged.
Ihey think o. getting a stee! plate 8rmor for
him which will encase. him from the crown of
70 think he has a good LUCK following him In ali
his misadventures. which is taking care OF him
quite as well as an armor would.