Show THE STORY OP A you promised to tell us somo time how you got sear on your forehead uncle yes boys but alio story is so little toily credit clial I 1 lave felt rather inclined to put it olt however ill tell it now perhaps it may do yon cooj perhaps not they ili say all boys quarrel if thai is so 1 don t see uh it should be so iso good canies conies of it but harm very often I 1 donl believe ill boys 10 lo but my brother george and I 1 did or I 1 should not no be telling you how I 1 got that fecak we ined know on banks of the do you know thu oi that indian name n winding liner it is well named for besides its greater anding as shown on the by schoolboy school boy of my days as a aig in the form of the letter N its whole course is full of alic little curves and bends some somo abrupt all beautiful and leading on and oh to new beauties I 1 have conrd alil travelers say ol 01 its canery is by anything in alic way of quiet river lania well the ijoyi so as to livo along river have good times tharo is IL liing m bijl it barc ties lino and with net and with von ilont know aliat nc is we used to take a half inch rope reach say half across the river along this at intervals of about leu feet were lied pieces of fisli lino perhaps two fact long taco were hooked and baided bailed and then one end of tho rope or outline was fastened at alie to some underground branch or root tho oilier being anchored as far out in alic river as it would rauch there was nothing very sportsmanlike in this style of lishing but it was by no mccaus poor fun 0 o agn in tho early morning iu n boat along alint liuo which was put out overnight and pull up each short lino with alio llio climaco of finding a perch chub pickerel or but not probably a bass on alic end of it cooil elioso lish tasted for bicak fast another way was to spear tho nab at ight with a lire of pitch pine knots mado in an old dripping pan on a polo limit to alie side of the boat 1 dont know whether boys af today use clial wo did then a kin d which we bought in tho eliapo of small black shells bliku liku cocoi shulls only larger shuso we throw into tho ihor when wo birst went out eagerly and thoy had an intoxicating on for they would ruh and splash aboul in aliu water making it easy for us to find thorn I 1 leavo since thought it was a cruel ad vantage to take of the poor bilings alio knew no better than to take that into their stomachs which would lead them to rui beings blessed with who do thu very same tiling knowingly 1 did not in those days u the picturesque of tins sport but I 1 well remember tho glow un the trees and the gleam on the water I 1 think wo might easily have been taken for sonic order of ferocious night goblin in tho red glare our formidable pears all was it one of those aavo you the scar no I 1 am coming to that it camo through a much way of ti shing the long which cros ed ahn river my homo was a very old one alio 1 piers being built in tho old fashioned way not of itono stono or of heavy open timber work as we now a days but lika wooden boxes pointing of course an inclined but alic lower end open they were partly fillod in with loose rough tt anc these piers acro favorite for a quiet fish when we had nothing moro venturesome on hand wo would row out to one ot bliem got inside and ash as long as wo could got good biles and then luodo to another I 1 must liucc been about cloven years old and my brother two acara older alun wo went morning out to ono of ho near tho middle of alio bridge georgo had po and after a while proposed to try some other place I 1 however was having a good many nibbles and refused then lio wanted mo to exchange chango ex pole but I 1 would not do that cither well he presently said you may stay cicro if you like bill I 1 shall take alio boat and go where I 1 can catch something you may ilo as you please 1 said do go with me 1 cn xo look there 1 jerked a bucker out of aliu water and laid him arg gling on alio stones no about catching cal ching fisli hero I 1 added rather spitefully as a s I 1 took him fram tho hook georgo angrily got in tho boat and away shouting back to me you may gut homo as you bit can dont trouble yourself about me old cranky 1 answered I 1 did not mind at all acin left for I 1 knew ho would come back for me when he cooled down I 1 fished for an lour or so when it occurred to mo that it would bo a rood ajoku to h iiii a little fri it would bu quito a satisfaction if 1 could in ikc him think for a little whilo that I 1 had como to some harm through his ccavin lc avin me 1 told you iho lucre were boarded up on the outside up near the lop ot tins one a board was pone awny lu 1 perceived when I 1 pat up to it fur I 1 alio plan of climbing up to opening and out upon alio llio inclined piano to hide from george for lie could not seo mo ho camo to look lor inc then I 1 would climb docu aaen when I 1 had enjoyed his alarm and perplexity at not lindin me no sooner said than done I 1 found it rather dini cult for tho timbers which supported alio planking ocic some distance apart and very weak w ith ac I 1 now that the real supports ot the consisted of strong timber biad been set up inside alic ut side a mere as I 1 found to my cost for ai I 1 climbed through the reached alic incline hard work lor it over 1 little the whole tiling began to crumble under me crashing down clifteen feet below on one sido lay dioso jilted atones on the other alio deep swift water with a dc sperato all orl I 1 halt leaped half scrambled up bloc tu tho outside wall of the bridge alio decayed woo 1 giving way under every step till I 1 gained a narrow fedgo of ho renewed timber hero I 1 was safe but here I 1 donuil I 1 must stay until help came for there waa no sound supports within my As I 1 sat on this narrow scat with scarcely auy rest for my feet I 1 began to realize blut I 1 was in pleasant position and looked about to what might bo roy chances 0 potting oui ot alic trap 1 had got mycle into things were not pi leas than an eighth of a milo above me the great darn from shore to its loar was enough to present voice being lie ird car in anny direction wa abdol din of the tl mills sawmills saw mills and paper mills of it I 1 could only wait for george to come but hours passed during which my cries for help were thrown back to mo by alic noise As I 1 grew cramped and exhausted and dizzy it scorned to wrap itself around me ns it to me down to the angry malcre 1 never have been able to understand how I 1 clung there so long he aderi wore away and as tho shadows grew longer I 1 coald dimly hoar shouting and perceive anoro movement on 1 hen rays of 1 glit sliomo from down the river light I 1 knew i WAS unusual excitement about tho mill and aa twilight I 1 could just see a boit bo it put out from ono of them and conic nearly towards me when it turned down stream I 1 called and shouted but was still unheard then I 1 took a quick resolution born 0 iho extremity of my position gathering all strength in one scream and ono leap I 1 out over tho water in tho direction of alic boat my struck on one of the zinc bound oars aud tho blood streamed over my face as I 1 felt myself seized by friendly then a halloo went up from my which was carried from boat to boat and from bank to bank I 1 saw aliat the river was alive with thoo who it was their lights I 1 had seen george go back for you undo but had never thought of looking for mo above the bridge after hunting long for me in soro dismay lio hid spread iho alarm poor fellow ho had more iliin 1 had iset jio was alic most to blamo 1 I dont so I 1 laivo always observed that alion boys or others cither for hat matter got to quarreling there is generally little to chioso on either s alo sla |