Show LIFE LESSONS They Ther haY have had bad some cold weather and some snow in New ow York and the thc New York Sun devotes co considerable c space to describing the sleds of the thc theold theold old lays days the belly whoppers whoppers' and and belly bumpers bump bump- ers era upon which the bo boys s 's threw themselves cs and ami challenged destiny and nd distanced the thc th Montreal onh al express cx ex press pless iu i one wild ild glorious successful ful dash clash 18 h for the hc crossing at the thc foot of the thc hill rh That ln it t is a sly way ar in n which hi h the e editor toi of aT r the Sun makes clear the fact that he in his his' younger da days s 's attended the school But he lie is riot not the only one who had such accomplishments The he writer attended district school and behind the schoolhouse schoolhouse- was wa a it hill c called Bunker hill and nd ou on I Ithe the north slope of pJ that hill lull when winter vinter was on and when every v lY night through lph February ry a l little littlehalf littlehalf half inch of r fresh snow fell feU the thc whole recess at noon Doon was exhausted ted in a half moment going down hc the hut hill and in t five tc c minutes hauling lg the sled h back ck Most ost of or those sleds had board runners that t is two pieces of hickory board au an inch thick and perhaps sev e em m inches wi wide vide e were rounded at one end us as sleighs are arc rounded a little frame put upon them to make juske two runners a ii thin Him board on the tho frame and that was the boys boy's coaster couster B But the writer was presented d with a natural curved runner sled which was made out of the thc root of or a hickory stump It d an and polished d and then painted red rell and when in his bis opulence opulence- he lie took t that hat to schol chol and aud on n the first essa essay outdistanced all competitors then at one once nc the thc prettiest girls in school wanted to ride rid with him It ought to JI have Ye been a lesson to him but it it did not l really ab come until late in iu lif life when jJ he one one day dropped on the f fact ct that the theman thenan man nan that had the reddest sled with natural curved runners runners that at could any flUr other sled shed was the tho theman mon man in Il the world that got the pretty girls There was a c hill bill and a c creck eek that that ran ranby ranu u by jy it which we e sometimes called Niagara After the writer returned and years years' went look at Bunker lull hill and Niagara of his boyhood and aud lo Kia Niagara ara had shrunk t to a a little bit of a stream which h produced nothing but pollywogs a and d Bun Bun- her ker cr h hill ll die did not come up to the dign dignity ty of rising of-rising rising ground And thus one delusion after another passes awa away as as life p progresses and arid very er little inthis inthis in iu this his world appears appealS to be what it seems |