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Show A SUDAN UAIIREL (re.li I irlteniMil Among Iloje at Cuuutrj Mture "A sugar barrel, boys!" What a scampering that announcement uied tc cauio among tho boys In tho vicinity of tho country store, n few years ago, when much soft brown sugar was use! Tho emptied hogsheads, with a luscious lus-cious coat of snectnoas adhering to the rough staves, wcro cast out In the hack yard, much to the bo)' delight, John I), Grazier, who spent his youth In Canada, recalls these "sugar-barrel" scenes from his own experience Ono of tha boys wns always on tho wntch us Informal scout, to glvo notice to tha rest of anything Interesting nnd available avail-able lu tho way of fun Tho empty hogshead used to appear with considerable consid-erable regularity. 1 ho scout would see It, nnd after a liberal tnsto himself, would rush to tho mill-pond wbcro he would probably find the rest nt us bathing. "A surar barrel, bosi" was his greeting. It wns onnugli, Putting on half ot our clothos as wo went, wo would dash off after our guide, like a scattered train of camp followers. It must havo been comical to sco a dozen urchins straggling along, picking their way barefooted over tbo rocks and rough ground, struggling to put on n ragged vest or a coat, whllo maintaining maintain-ing a sort of Indian Jog-trot for fear or losing n share, In tho feast Then, In, tho hogshead, and Into It the first-comers first-comers rushed pell-mell Thoso w!k enmo after contented themselves with' hoping there would bo enough for all, or possibly they obtained a mo mo! or two by clever reaching from tho outside. |