The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1916-08-10

one had any tnt1matton OF 1t until the
pig-tailed girl who sat in front OF him
let out an pnearthly screach Fad COM
menced tearing at her back The
teacher thought she had acase of chills
and sent her home Immediately.
All had quieted down when the sissy
boy of the school reached into one
Of the pockets .of his neat little suit
for his much-envied handkerchief.
Hardly had he done so than he yelled
at the top OF his voice and actually
flew from his seat. The tiny frog was
flung in the boys excitement straight
at the teacher. who jumped back as IL
he had been shot
An investigation was started at
once. but nothing came OF it. even
though Jim's bright eyes were flashing
with mischief But Jim's immunity
was too good to last. When he had
put the frogs in one pants pocket he
had forgotten about little hole there.
As long as he sat down he was all
right, but as soon as he started to
walk to his first recitation up in front
Of the school things commenced to
happen. The slippery little frogs found
1t an easy matter to slide through that
tiny hole and Immediately Jim was in
misery. The first one he could stand
skidding down his bare leg. but when
they commenced to go as fast as they
could he had to give up. He gave
vent to a terrific whoop and COM
menced to do a most precentable war
dance.
That VIII. op made the teac1er sus-
pect The little Jig gave him con-
viction and he swooped down on poor
Jim like an eagle on its prey. And
poor Jim-he was disgraeed in the
eyes of all the girls and :hc lauehing
stock of the boys. But he gained the
respect OF all when he went up in
front and took the spanking that was
coming to him without n whimper-
and like little man.
"One winter" said Mr.. Heavenridge.
cit sleeted heavily and then froze solid.
a'ying everything a coat Of ice. Int
was certainly great JOY for US young
sters. who would rather skate than
ca any time. The tiist morning We
skated all over the little village and
would climb a little hill at one end of
the place and then coast down. We
soon got tired of that climb and
were about to quit the fun when an
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A happy thought struck Riley and he
grabbed the cows tail. grabbed Jim's
coat tail and the rest followed suit
one after the other. . was d shame
to make that COW work the way we
did. but we enjoyed It, Finally Jim
conceived the idea Of having the COW
IKE us df wn the hi.l as wei: NJ up.
Well. we did II. The COW got mad at
that and instead Of stopping at the
bottom, kept right on going. We had
forgotten about the board fence that
across the lane just little
way from where we stopped. The COW
forgot IL. too, but remembered in time
to swing on 10 one side. thus per
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a terrific bang. that landed us all in a
heap. / was so sore from that bump
that didn't get over II for weeks;
Jim was the most unfortunate. be-
cause being first in line. he was used
as a cushion TO break the bump for
the rest OF us. OF course we all
blamed the COW"
While on the skating topic Mr.. Hea-
recited another amusing epi-
sode. The boys were skating down
the creek one day. with Jim Riley in
the lead, Not very far away, in the
direction they were going. was a log
barrier stretched across the stream TO
keep the cattle out. On the approach
ing side of this barrier the ice was
frozen solid. On the other side there
was an air hole. Him knew about II.
but the rest didn't. so when he sighted
IL he hollered. Last one TO catch me
is a squirrel" and commenced to
squirt. The rest did likewise at once
in frantic effort to catch him. When
Jim reached the barrier he hurdled
1t with long leap and aiighted on
solid ice. The other fellows. not
knowing of the air hole. made just a
short hurdle and the whole bunch
landed in the icy water together.
Riley. OF course. was all innocence
and took the boys home with him to
dry out by the kitchen stove.
Mr.. Heavenridge did not know Riley
SO well in later life because he left
Greenfield with his folks about 1865.
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