Show y PLAYMATES A news story In the I New York Times about Major Frederick R. R ScoutIng Scouting Scout Burnhams Burnham's autobIographY Ing on Two Continents brought back vivid recollections of a a boyhood boyhood boy boy- hood along the MississipPI to another another an- an other author Edwin L. L Sabin who played with the famous scout in the theold theold old frontier days Fred Burnham and the Blick BJick boys were neighbors of mine In Clinton Iowa says Mr Sabin I f think that they lived out on Seventh Seventh Sev- Sev avenue a short distance beyond beyond be- be house and to tomy tomy yond our according my memory they ran away from home at least Fred Burnham ana ane Homer Buck Blick did Homer that beIng being be- be Ing his name may have come back but Fred did notI notI not I was young enough then not to have paid attention to the mere incident In Clinton in those days wo we boys all were pretty much on the Indian order we had the Mississippi rIver a mile wide with Its Islands and sloughs and we had the the bluffs and hills and ana Woods and a large proportion of Irish who occupied their own districts districts dis- dis I and when we Protestant boys were not fighting the CatholIc lads gang against gang we were up the rIver or else exploring the hills An old day rIver town with accessory to make colorful annals I mention this In order to explain why runaway boys did not at the time strike us as a matter of Im- Im My is that the una iuna wa ways s 's tool took a a. skiff and hid ou out t. t for fora a night or two on Beaver Island just below town town-as they easily for Beaver Island was a amile mile mUe long thickly timbered and practically uninhabited Long years afterward I heard hear that Burnham was In South Africa and was a noted scout Fred Burnham Burnham Burn Burn- ham You see this has all the elements elements ele- ele ments of r rOmance mance and surpasses anything Twain ever concocted |