HIS BOYHOOD'S DAYS. An Artist Relates Some of the Reminiscencea of his Childhood.
Out in the village where I was born we had a crowd of boys whose life was a continual round of pleasure, as I look down upon it now. Swimming, boating, hunting, wandering in the fields, with a boy's proprietary feeling of ownership of the whole earth equal to Jay Goulds and an ignorance of everything equal to an art critic's, we still got into mischief. "Si" Pickering's father owned a calf which roamed in the field behind the barn. On this calf our wicked eyes fell one day and we organised an indian deer hunt. Theo Beck and Joe Doty drove the calf into the lane, where about a dozen of us were scattered alon» behind the fence, amed with bows and .sharp arrows. The calf, or deer, as it was supposed to represent, came ambling friskily along, when the Indians opened fire. With a startled bellow it dashed past down the lane, followed by fierce, blood-curdling whoops, to where " Si " stood with an old gun loaded with bird shot. "Si" was representing a white settler, and was expected to &hoot in the air, of course ; but in the intense excitement of the moment, as he saw the deer plunging toward him, with eight or nine arrows sticking in him in the region of the tail, he shot his hide full of small holes. At this interesting moment his " old man" rode up and "Si's" face was a picture of surprise. He seemed quite agitated as the old man reached for him in an earnest manner. I was getting well toward the next country at the time, but I heard " Si's " explanatory remarks even after I was in the woods. The calf lived to be a respectable, sober old cow, yet I never could look upon her white face in after years without recalling " Si " floating in tho air as he held him aloft by his suspenders and fondled him in the most- approved Biblical manner. — W. H. McDougall in V New York World."
Experiments made indicate that the light of micHay during, fine weather penetrates the water of the s^a 1,300 feet.,
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 212, 23 July 1887, Page 3
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367HIS BOYHOOD'S DAYS. An Artist Relates Some of the Reminiscencea of his Childhood. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 212, 23 July 1887, Page 3
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