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Show vak . VOLUME III. $ stis -- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 15, 1892. ostentatious while thev Bmy Life, hide-and-see- question C1IA1TEK IV. IN IV CHAPTERS. k, found without and, pitching upon me to blind, would leave me to look vainlv for them after thev had scattered giggling to their homes. As time advanced, becoming an equal party in the ventures of the children upon the street, I entered into their pursuits with all mv natural industry. We ran our wagons hundreds of miles, learned architecture in the sand-pileinstituted svstems of monev and organized forces of police to cope with bands of robbers. With one exception all went well Br AVINCt now arrived at r. the age of three, I was allowed to venture out of doors to join the children of our neighbors, whom with wonder I r hail seen disporting in strange hut interesting aines hefore our window. For along time after I had joined them, thesj little people were a mvsterv to me, and man v I experienced at my a heart-ich- e hi:k of success in fraternizing with them. e In order to make mvself a addition to their party, I took o it with me (by stealth) my s, with me. There was and Though fickle tyrannical thev are far more agree-abl- e in intercourse than men; for while children have unlimited expedient of converse and ainus-men- t men are entirely restricted to asking us a few stale questions, such as: "How old are vou?" "What is your name?" "What are you going to be, my boy, when vou are a man?" and to fetching us slv cracks and then looking away with a pretense of playfulness, showing not only great paucity of ideas but a paltriness thereof truly depressing. These memoirs of mv busy life, which now draw to a close, I end with a feeling of sadness. If men dwell regretfully upon their youth, the memory of which they mav at anv time recall, it is but natural that I should now linger fondly upon my childhood, the a desperado of six memories of which (as I know who terrorized our neighborhood from older people) must soon be and offered constant menace to obscured and lost; nay, which I our peace, so that in the end my shall with mortification hear re- wel-eom- father felt obliged to report him he Whereupon they to his parents, and this was so t;ys. played express with my wagon wise a step that for a week I without asking or allowing me to hardlv durst set foot outside our participate; they rode my veloci- door. n This enemv was at last pede, while I, all in good faith, in a singular wav. While of mvself, m ule a uighing-stoehv running breathless at their making free and rough use one side, they whipped my top and dav of mv wagon he broke the answered my expostulations by box off and bent the axle. He threats of whipping me. When knelt down to examine the latter, thev desired it I traded mv tovs and I coming up with the box for theirs, and in these eases I and staggering under its heavv had the unhappincs of my own weight stumbled against the wheel dissatisfaction coupled with thej and brought the box down full mortification of being considered upon his head. Instead of attacka ninny by my parents, who sup-- ' ing me he jumped up and ran I posed that I made the trades on awav, and found mvself a hero mv judgment. When the child-- while the desperado was jeered ren grew tired of mv tovs and oil' the street. Some conclusions of mv longl mv complaisance, thev would go apart and play by themselves. studv of children mav here not be over-throw- 1 NUMBER 14 that, amiss. affecting mv societv distasteful, thev were fairlv intoxicated with the company of one another. And when thev were ready to quit sport for the dav, thev would start a game of vqus Of a v .gp k j i 1 : j called when my parents fatuously tell my childish sayings. How shadowy soever it mav grow, this period of life has been real tome; it has been made up of days coming and going, of gladness and grief, of silent cxcctancy of praise for little acts of merit and of hopes of pardon for little trespasses. I think of the constant, labor that a little follow must undertake to learn from dumb watching the meaning of smiles and of frowns, and then, from these, what is thought good and what bad. Other children will no doubt find, as I have, that in this strange world they must often descend to hypocrisies to win encomiums; that thev must even, alas, conceal ( ( 'niitin ttnf mi fnlfi (LJ.) |