The Prescott daily news., 1908-01-09

of those things were or ping elastic, and how he used to faunt them before my eyes!
 He knew blamed well that those ping elastic sleeve supporters looked finer to me than any Star of India or Victoria Cross could possibly look. and he knew, besides. that because had to go to school and wasn't earn ing anything there wasn't possible chance on earth for me to get pair like 'em-end so he just held em over me and made my life miserable. Yet when I got to the wage earning age I never seemed to care at all for a pair of pink elastic sleeve support CTS.
 Another boy that l hated had a maroon colored Cardigan jacket That was before the day of sweaters. This hated boy wore the Cardigan jacket beneath his regular outer coat and so he didn't have to wear any overcoat. That 1 considered was a gorgeous blessing-not to have to wear an over- coat to school. l despised this boy for having it on me that way. Any how, his maroon colored Cardigan jacket had couple of pockets in front that he kept full of all kinds of junk-sometimes he even carried mice to school in 'em. And that made my indignation all the grester-the fact that he had those fne covered up pockets to his Cardigan jacket.
 "One great triumph did come to my tyke life, though, and that was the fact that I was the first boy of my school to own pair of copper-toed boots. Well, I sprang the first pair, as 1 say, at my school, and l guess l didn't break the hearts of all the other boys or nothin Besides the cop per toes these boots had red tops, with a silver star and crescent stamped on the red tops, and that made the blow all the more frightful to the other tads that had to see me stalking around in those boots. After a while, though, nearly all of the other youngsters showed up with copper
  out of my sails.
 We never see boys wearing peaked caps any more-notice? l don't mean these dinky little cloth caps with peaks to 'em, but regular soldiers caps, with glazed peaks First boy that turned up fin our neighborhood with one of those things on made a sensation all right This same boy had got hold of carpenters pencil some where and he'd stick that carpenters pencil underneath his forage cap, with the sharpened end projecting in a mighty blase way that certainly caused us to regard him as some pun kins. 1 was always crazy for a car penter's pencil when 1 was boy, but I never got hold of one. Never did anyhow. because my folks were too blamed respectable.
 As a matter of fact-you can be- lieve it or not, but I'm telling you the truth-they wouldn't let me at the age of ten apply for the job of brakeman on a passenger train. That, I thought, was the finest job in the world brakeman on a passenger train. Just swinging a red lantern all the time and wearing a peaked cap mostly on the left ear and the peak pushed back so as to show an oiled bang plastered down, and sitting on wood box in the smoker talking to fellers, and car. rying pair of red flags around every where, and all that But the main ap- peal of the brakeman's job was the red lanterns.
 'Oh. well. that pair of basket sleeve protectors that l saw at the poultry market the other day certainly car ried me back long ways, and l was still laughing like a fool when l strolled away"