| Show AND A How lion Ho lie Caught tho k a al at Old mil lilli Bangor Maine Up In Island I Falls I Aroostook county lived a Q rugged farm farmer t arm m er cr and backwoodsman familiarly knon as nil Old Hill Bewail Sewall and nail to hIs bin house houst ono one day da In autumn about twenty fire years earn ago ogo came a n rather delicate youth armed with a Q gun gUll and fishing rod roll and looking for tor n a place to board hoart for tor a too few months while hile ho lie roughed It U for tor the tho benefit of at lila his health The Tho youth was Theodore Roosevelt of New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and ho he was wan all made welcome For many weeks accompanied by Bill But Bewail Sewall and Wilbur Dow Dol a young man living lIIng In tho the neighborhood the young oung man went hunting and fishing and nM gradually the color cams came Into his hili face Cace and strength to his hi muscles If It ha ho was slight and rather ho he had plenty of ot grit and soon floon ho won the friendship arid and admiration of all the woodsmen In Inthe tho the Island Foils Falls section They fh said Bald that although at lint first tight eight the young oung tourist loo as tf U hed pull through ho was wan game to the back ack backbone backbOne bone and If It sticking to It was ree any help they the thought ho he might turn out all allright tIght right after nil all Many Mall stories Are arc told by 0 those thoe who remember visit of his JIls cour courage courage age and persistency Ono One day da when with Bewail Sewall and the rest relt ho went on a n along along long tramp through the woods after deer he was IB much exhausted on the tho way WR home and land someone offered to art hi his tills ride for tor him Roosevelt al 01 almost almost most mot Indignantly the proffered assistance and although almost ready to drop In his tracks train from weariness be he clung to hit his hI rifle and end d through to the end of ot the Journey journ On another occasion he had a 11 long tong chase at ct r n a f game rooster that had escaped rom ram his hi and pursued the bird through the village streets attests over fence Cence and stid through yard until flashy It flew fiew Into the open window of ot the stry tI ry of a 11 house Nothing daunted got get o G i ladder and climbed into the house houet fr nUy emerging with the fowl foal squalling aqualung and struggling In his arm erms He lit had actually crawled under an en old womans bed to got get If t that rooster rooter When Roosevelt nO west went West Veat to be 00 become come rome a ranchman he hI took Bill Bow Bew Bewail Bowall SO all ail and end Wilbur Dow Dol along aIng with Mm him end and kept them In his employ tot for some lame rea rears ream Dow died In the West Welt but Bewail came back baek to Maine and Is III still lUll living at Island Falls Fall where wh rc he do de to toll tell t of the days ho he spent with Theodore H II taya fliTS that atthe at atthe atthe the time of the chase thaS and capture of the tM game cock OCk an In aged pettier r of oC bl Island bland and end Falls admiring the th persistency nd lad determination of oC young Roosevelt raid aid That young be Preel Fred d lent int nt some day dBY If it he New York Tribune |
