The Van Buren press., 1899-04-29

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rectIy in his face
With eyes fast shut he made straight
for. the rain tub. and plunging his head
In, shook il violently about.
When he raised Il. with hair al
singed, and eyebrows and lashes gone.
ne presented a strangely altered ap-
pearanee. but there was not q quiver on
the small. powder-burned face. as. turn
ing 10 his companions, he asked:
Does il show much ?"
The least candid Of them was obliged
to admit that il did; but George, still
sanguine of escaping detection, hoped
that after it stopped smarting, II
would look better
When the doctor returned from h.s
distant call that evening. however. he
found a patient awaiting him al home,
and in the quiet seelusion of the two or
three days following the adventure the
future admiral had leisure in which to
eencoct new plans for the entertain
ment of himself and his young friends.
During the Mexican war he was an
ardent worshiper at the shrine Of Gen.
Taylor, who clicked the enemy every
time"
He never tired of looking Al picture
Of him which hung in his own room;
and when the boys, catching the mill
tary spirit which pervaded the air.
fought sham battles. he always insisted
upon personating "0ld Zaek." assign-
ing the part of Santa Anna 70 some one
else, an appointment of characters
sometimes resulting in a mutiny.
One night one of the younger set, then
..six-year-old." and not allowed to 60
with the big boys. recalls the fascina-
ton which his society had for him, and
the hsir-erecting stories OF the yellow
back variety with which he sometimes
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evening the smaller boy, stealing away
from home at dusk. joined young
Dewey and two of his associates, and
accompanied them up deep ravine to
an Old-fashioned sawnill. which they
set in motion, the double object thus ac-
complished being the seeing OF ''the old
thing shake itself to pieces" and the Sc
curing of a days holiday for their
friend, the miller's son, by the suspen-
sion of operations consequent upon
draining the pond.
The immense amount of snow which
falls in the mountains and valleys Of
New England and the large deposits Of
ice which form in its rivers make the
breaking up Of winter in that far north.
ern climate period to which every boy
endowed with a spirit of adventure
looks eagerly forward.
Two small rivers. the Winooski and
the Onion, come togther in Montpelier
in such a way as 10 form the letter I,
In the spring, when these streams are
swollen by the melting SHOWS, and
pieces of ice are hurried along by the
current, the boy who gets upon the
smallest cake" which viii bear his
Notwithstanding often in water four OF
five inches deep-and succeeds in effect
ing a landing upon the mass Of pull
verized ice, interspersed with huge end
wise and cross-wise blocks, which
lodges six miles below, becomes the
hero of the hour.
On such occasions young Dewey was
in his element, leading the way in every
daring enterprise and acquiring that
hardihood and utter disregard Of dan
ger Of which the victory at Manila was
the glorious outcome II was while
guiding his ice raft past bridges and
piers. over cross currents formed by the
influx OF lesser tributaries and around
quick bends in the river that he learned
his first lessons in the science Of nayi-
CATION.
What man has done man can DO
was the motto which formed the pro-
pelling power Of his young life, carry
ing through every boyish undertaking.
Who knows but that it may have in
spired his later achievements as well?
of his experience at the Washington
county grammar school in Montpelier,
the first educational institution which
he attended. much has already been
written Its pupils taught by first one
teacher and then another, had acquired
the reputation Of being rather difficult
subjects, and Dewey Is said TO have
taken an active part in the initiatory
hazing to which each new principal was
subjected and to have been the ring