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THE BOYS OF NEW YORK}
The New Yori Boys Weekly
NEW YORK, AUGUST 13, 1887.
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THIS WEEK!
serie commenced 14 No,
ube
RADY's SCHOOL SCRAPES"
aN Bae Bors oe Rew Vouk. tack "nimloe
angcined Jrom any nerd
Hannah's broom sy ung around for anecond crack.
took the overturued barrel and sent it spinning night
fate tne nude of the Kiteheos
Freckiea jin weegsecene™ the
kifchen into the Ball aud mp we back sta
nab ea ie only ob-
bed the dormitory by this
i
Te ‘boys ran into the house. in the hope of inter-
| geping & bie luckiess Freckles, but he was too sudden
for
ure, [think that was Freckies again,” muttered
‘nd clad in very weancy garments:
we bart, he had on nothing but a dour-barrel,” sald
no upstairs, sor, and bring him down,” sald
cy 2 asked O'Rr
“As S fsped Macy 0 sez, think I have no
aclacy ? 5 lee bi pus on his
Jotles forst, anu thit bring him dow.””
im
1 the dormitory doors,
however, and nelther tke boys nor O'Brien could get
Master Innocence put on his duds, which he found
tying on his na then, while the enemy was
forcing one door, he sllpped out of another and made
bly escape.
He dida’t show up till supper time, and then Mac
asked him what be meant by alarming the whole
house,
2h lost my clothes, te-he-be, and bad to come home
barrel # sail Freckles. "Tavs better thea mad,
thug I n't Bo easy to
yez’l OMe me in ‘ ieareo,
those tars Tautteree Mace “ Can't yez mz take care ay
yer clothes when you go out, How did ye lose thim*”
Bese
‘ACE EAS
paces
ad
od
By E PETER PAD,
“Apion of MThe Rollie Sine: on, Sack Roady's Eife of Pan.
“ aaa on, Three Chipn of
Daven
or Iowa
The Teun Pow ting. The
‘he. Whe
"Tie
ier Hance
the
inne
Foun Borner, dr
Sal a
taving Si
0
Se
‘Spy tha Non! Fork Primer
nt the Scenes
= ane ey wee
TAPTER X
Tos FRECKLES, cro1 fat In the barrel that
formed bis obly germent a ‘ondly tinanined that
the three girls would simply paw bins by with per-
tapes terfark or two and ag ore,
He Knew not the extent to which the cartosity of
women will take them.
‘Those girls were bound to sce what was in that par-
ccanie alongside, and began to examine It
One & pair of esegiasses, another gare
he borrel a hick aud dine ain poked ber red parasol
in‘on {op of his hen
‘That w
He gave Jel jumped up aii Tat off as fast as uo
contd en tt
‘The girls, equally frightened, screamed and houfed
tt 1p the opposite direction,
On. dear, ites tan witout any clothes on!” they
shriekta in horrified a
ac Whacketn’s bors were ou
tue tree doing het
‘Ma him: na big arm-
chat, wunra fon in his band and his caline ‘enbuiton.
Ea paving off the fies that would persist io taking
he lawn under
Mary al ng out clothes as usual,
and exchanging the latest gvssip of the kiteten.
‘O'Brien was Isin hammock stretched
be-
tween two trees, and had dropped om tnto @ pleasant
joze.
Morlarity sat on the piazza, his chal tipped back
fi his feet on tne valli anit in that free Ad easy
Position, was fealing a tee dass’ old uewapaper,
biltrad trauquiiity and fereuits, aa salted the warm,
rStatteany a strange figure came in at the gate nd
ried toward the ho
twas Fon Fee cries, ‘clad only In bis pative modesty,
rel.
eeiaey mn Elica espied him simnltaneously, aud let
out a yell that would have paraiyzed a Comanche
India
‘ur Boones sake, Ink at that
“Ghrawig? I'am whin 1 seo a barrel
ell frightened Moriarty 0 that be jumped
back, ine his hold on the railing and fell over on the
thor! velng Wrribly ralxed up.
opreny us rolled 9 out of Tus bonamaSck and
et on his heal In the
Mac leaped up as
8 bald bea
1¢ excitement that bis sndiien
france had caused, made's dust for the Dack
“Hannah, hearing the noixe, came rushing out with
see what it a
sient of Frecties
‘Tom shot past ber, but then she quickly turned and
fave chase.
age as Freckles reached the door Hannah's broom
3 thst barrel aerack teteen the center hoo
ak shot
as Ny
a oe a
i
ee
of Bis he ad. That
a ccm Simin, be-he, and somebory stole
‘ommiche Re so had & waik home 1n 9 barrel.
“Well, don't let it occur again, or I'll harsewbip
pez. Retther go into the % water ‘a soe clothes on
the mxt tolme, an’ thin ye
recklea thovene ‘that would be eery
ld not stop to ars
imwith & warning ‘uot to be’ as blg a fool as he
ocked,
viesies swimming, the river attorded the bore at
Mac Whackem's otter sports, and among these was
boat
‘Tue professor owned three or four very fait row.
boats, but na Jack ‘wanted one ali to himselt iia
Mother sept bian money to buy a neatiltle crate, mnien
ras brought up fom Birehvilie ou 8 wagon,
.to the river and
Soon after the advent of Freckles and the flour
barrel, Jack proposer an excursion up the river one
aernoon when there was 0 halehole
for six in the boat, and Jack ite
vited Merry, Wilt, Jolly and Brighs, to go wu hime
They were to take thelr provisions along with thei
and nake a regular picnie of i, 1a fact, going some
distance up the river ani not returning tl sapper
time.
Just aa they were about t9 push, of from the lite
pier waere sak s boat was tied, when who mast com
Song but Freck
rowing he askt
Ce nolig carioge fiaing, Staph.” retort-
“People never take @ hoat to go.rowlng,
pea you et me do with yous”
u say, boys, shall we take him?" ask.
the boss of the boat
“He mitht bo sefal tn ease of @ shower, for he
couid open bis mouth and catch ail the rain.”
grub we could eat bim, he’s
“Yes. on we could use bim for bait, f we wanted to
etboard for an axchor if we
asked Freckles, on whom these varl-
ous jokes bad he‘i no more elect than paving stones
mses dae
“f Goare want toy I mmigue burt myselt?
on't want to do what 7?
Tumble
On well then get in, if you like that better.”
However, when en aid get tn ne tripped over
one of leriy’s cars and rolled e bortom
boat ns neti ag cou
beying, isthe to suart we” grinned
did t
‘oreard, sl ‘Jack, who was
coring, while Metry and Witte rowed, “aud don't
et fo, sauirmiag about, oF ‘weil chuck you over:
‘Then they started off, Chatile and Marrs making the
oat epin while Jack Kept ber on @ #traight coarse
Fight up the river
The school grounds, and presently
wwept abng nnder the cverkanuing treea where the
nade was dellgitful and the coui breeze very refresh
ho river wound aud twisted and passed throws
very preity atretches of count yw PASstN)
through narrow xorges where she clits towered hit
above their heads, and again gliding past broad
meadow jands where cattle were grazing, or pleasant
bite of wooded country where (ners was fine shooting
In the season.
‘After a couple of hours the bora hatted 01 & mossy
beak where there as Jrt euoah shade for comfors,
goo, lev: yp, cleat spring and rocks
where they Soni it vi ita
Hate thoy inal sce
pro sen got water, iiguted & fre, aud prepared to
Dotted eome cage, and roasted
ot ligt Merry get the table, on &
trac Poke ann Harty and Poll Ment of and picked &
lot of Inte strsmberrica, Walch frsbrate to
Found om te
boat, brought out the
y Pe
Ore went Tom, a Tight throvgn the barrel
Ante the kitcae!
"Aftet dinmer they ait strolied along the river bank,
“=e s
re)
RNS
=
Pe
was 3 8!
1
‘umpy tree witha board stuck op
len,
Dow't sald Jack,
aNbya aban "you knowl"
“ Nia fork
{For tnstance.’*
“ {ryoa want to know you'd better go over and ex-
amine it, You can read, can’t your?
“He, be, he, | never thought of that" said Freck
Jes, and 1n'a moment te was Over the fence aud walk:
tog toward the semnpy te
a been depriy
ed of ita upper branches, and a
vy, suit faced tre otter way ‘and Tean't read it?
& Warning to trespansers, I guess.”
* Hello! there's somebedy now." wnattered Harry
A mats Was seen toe from 8 clump of woods
and waik taplily towarl the topped-ort tree, waving
one hand excltediy aud carrying # gun in the other,
[evs skip out, suld Jack, "and give Freckles
scare.”
‘hen the bore burried back to the boat, put in the
axings, and dropped down stream close under au
overhadving
‘Meanwhile, Freckles, in bis search for information,
a
‘a3 too mae les,
ast “as, he could leg it
had reached the stumpy tree, and was reading the no-
tice on the board:
“ALL Pensoxs FOUND TRESPASSING ON THIs PROP.
BRTY WILL BE beaut ‘with Acconpiss ‘ro Law,”
“Wonder wh ‘mean sed Freckles,
‘How dos Law deat with people? Whos Law, any:
how! Teshe-he! I never heard of nim. ‘Wonder if he
here
UL a iret out of here! yelled the man with the
mining toward the tree,
0 you say?” asked Freckles, turalug
Get out of here or I'll shoot sour
“Won't do it?
“You're trespassing: get ot
o hinte nether: Pe oekiog at the
However, the man lonked pret
he was now between Frockles and the fence where h
fid entered the forbidden grounil, Master Tom gave &
spring and @ bound and squatted on the top of the
tree,
“Come down,” said the man, coming under where
Ten
sign.
angerons, and a
mn for?
ont. Whar T come di
an’ you end, blockhe .
ricktiead, Te, he, he! That's good.””
So it'wea for ‘ng man's Head waa a9 Fed us fie and
be ad 4 tehiper to mute, ;
i names, too, i oD, besides irespassing 2”
te ‘Shere we cemne down here at once,”
Won't d ark want co bedealé with accord-
tng to Lam, whoever
"Cora down here at once, tine
, he, he! won't do it, Carrots,”
hen Pil shoot.”
“Him Dil give you lef, Don't believe you could
it me even ai that dlastanee, ‘cause you can't see
straight.
time down,
Won't!
Tay.”
Ifyou want me co
reel whi
man a ras there, God he knew very Frei that be fated
ot rhoot,
Consequentiy he began to abuse him, relying on bis
Position i in fe tree for provection.
J-headed, crosseyed, clumsy:
Tos seni hurt a flea."
ovate aI J eaten you,
«Ain't got ime, ou bow! ‘legged, crockery-toothed,
tamiera-jewed tosis
“Moov growled the man, “I'll paralyze you
for that.”
ean
TAU make you sweat for this.”
T'i'get damages if there's wny lawr tn the tana.”
& Pooht you're so dam! mare now that you ain’t ft
to » FO im an ash barrel hy
‘Come down out of tat tree.”
duane, Jou, Vim very a tuvortable where Iam.”
“ who he
That gies wns enongh toexasperate anybody. ang
tno owner of those acres got 60 Imad tat be
nis goo a fired,
‘A charge of snot wont through Freckles’ hat, dolog
no other rumage fortunately.
Hnwever, Freckles thought he was Killed to a cer-
tainty, and te aropped urof that tree like lio,
Tight On top of the man
Over weut the man as (f 0 house had fallen on him,
Freckles having lanued aquare on his shirt front,
nv ail Freckles
tanta aid the
ton top, and as
fasts be cond go
‘The man got up
learoonng ie ag mint ihe te oll
wit Lbaven't Klied bim Tl shake the cheek out of|
bio ” Aint Hs brilliant remark.
ea tim tf woul be arly likely that
Freckles
Over oe ‘ener vent Tom, falling, rather than leap.
Ang b ie other aude be tarned about
tin
and faved! he fellow unmnerciiiy
H’ml yon don’t own this lad, and if you dare to
enjoyiug the lovely scenery, watching the Ash jump
Out of water, and seeing the birds dytug trom brunet
Presentiy they came to @ fence inclosing a piece of
meadow jand, where, not far from the river, there
e top
“What does it say on that board?" inquired Freck~
titel growin oF nue oneots tuud grown out fa their
my than
come over Pl deal with you according to law, you
bump:baoked co
Freckies ‘ought Ar might be fust as welt {
beep an eye on the bout, however, sud 60 eviged
‘The boat was not there, however, UF his co
fons, and his heart san aetna
those fellow: in away, he-
hel how funny,” be 0 obwsrved though Re fll ee ellen
Up a tree a3 been a few minutes detore.
R. Guess Til bave to walk, he-he-bel niwe.thidg, has,
te-he? when you don't khow the road, Guess'I c:
follow the clear th hough.”
ow farted, following the river in its windings,
and fronde ering bow long it Would take im to Tea
ty funny for them tellers to run away."
attered. “Wien T sce em, I'l tell “em how ticked
ite man, lcked in two wons, Heke the dog. took
ay bis gun and lots more, te-he, te-hel and they’
low tt all.”
‘ow the Doi, with Jack nd the rest i ft, was git
long Tight under w! reckies Waa walking,
‘ie
rretty 8300, however, Freckies arrived at the end of
tne bunk, and found that he woult have to go urthor
‘ok frota tue river in order to continue his march.
Just as he turned away, boat suot out
Into the streain, and Jack cried ‘sloud:
eckles, aioyl Where have you been so long?
‘Look one seled Harry, tiers's the man “and
hig gun anda dozen doxs 1d on.
wae half migntened OO of what litte
withe baa, by this auaonacement
Wituout stopping to look back he gave one frauttce
covered | SI
ne wosn'tdead he amped up nnd pav for tie fence aa
ox on 2 Paix of eve-claases, another gave the barrel a kick, snd the third poked her red parasol in on
ror Free! ave a yell, jumped up ant
leap, and went foundering tnto the water up “to bis
Arie bo boys quickly pulled bim out, and got him {nto
the ing.
‘. Where's the man ri the gan?” gasped Freckles
“Gone to toe fora
erfed Merry.
ven Frackles saw that there Was Ho tral, uo gar,
and no dog, and that he had got a duckitig ali for
nothin;
He forgotall about the wonderfal story he had in-
tetvied fo tll, and devoted, the most of his time to
drying and wringing out
Fiosly they reacbed home in tine for saprer an
allnonds, Freckles: inclated, feclared that they had
had a boss thse, aly to go om another ex-
lon a8 500m a ‘eot ete
a ihe rest of you, thong,”
sald Jack quietly, "Tid host a9 soo leave Freckes
bebind, It’s too much sugar for a cent when he's
along.
[70 BE CONTINUED.
Sanne Oee vce
Answers to Correspondents.
BY “ED,
Novice. Our correspon yondent editor having been
paraiyzed by eeveral questions sent us recently, has
fone to the conniry to. rec crutl, and with mm
aiving we have allowed * ,!"t0 ab
Pacasio fat we wish'it distinctly unierstood
that we ave Rot responettte for auythlog which ™ Ber
may write. Yours always,
ere
Ee
column, this week sr
take charge of ths
hears for I lore fe foik
don’ Ti there is caything that Vina me feet
estestiahy ‘hapny itis to fc fa the omce and. have
Thousand and four inspired | iaote drop in cur,
tog the a 7 a ta week; of
ie ie rather personal, B nit shows he
Kindiy interest, manifested 1m Ta fae ny the iaquiren 8
really I do feel so the steain club whic
1 i nese operation beliind. the door, dese
an Vay them promiseuously around the f joor.
business,
Henry Milwankeo fg the fyst correspond
onan to Know how to get 10 of pimples. 10
ri from the letter recaived the ‘pine orop this
ear must be be
tiwankee
of getting rid of pim
80'ax, others carefully collect them when the}
ies of them. Still othe:
end
pe and mak
{hem In alcohol dad get them framed. But we don't
alway: bart
ber
nt correspondctris Maria Lush, “Marin says
Fed hair, end she wants an act of Congress to
ria, don't, We kuew a git] once who
ad ait vine Drick-yard, and & mouth jike a raw
Bt id died, all inside
liad common colored
t twO years to
‘Mari aa ait
i tne oid ‘man cor es down
wpatniek Forbidden Fant inquites i there are really
mountaing in he moon, or waether they are water on
the face of the man in the moon. Patrick, we don’t
grill buy uy & balloon we ‘will go op
‘Will that ult yo
Sohn Henry Gash Inquires what Hanntbat crossed
the Alps int ‘fa a sall-boat, of course,
n Hartahorn mentions that she has freck
and w:
at then can show you
you get mad at Mim, that ou are ait to
be tried with; be Kicking lin wit mae Joint. Iroi
Sti9es tll op steh occasions.
ick her over into the gatter, or
| disap,
rama her a the back with harpoon, In ll probabil
ty ais will 100K a
James Fishw doy. ls mother isatrict,
sud she. owt ee bien jam round nigues, autendiug
ee, club balls and moonlight plesntcs, Jan
Grwhy ‘Keke: and Be 60 jomes to us for ssuvice, James
nly Way that we bee for
Orit ww either hs mother, or get
tum to get out 0
a new on
Josephus Clamjuice 18 4 studious boy. Christopher
Yolumbus! middle ums bothers him. Tr fas bower.
£4 ue Joo, and we uve frequently laid awake lo
at wi
hours’ thiiking about ondering whether it
was Rockaway or ach, ut on the nolo
Be have a dim tea of feuding in Paradise Lost that
isco
fines saluted tim with “Christophe Canarsie Coluit-
3, what will you haver"” And he wept, and said
George Aun Parsnip 1s going to an evening party.
He va jo know whut fo weit, The lust evening
party in Nevada. Everybouy
pt ‘but ‘we Yaidn't see miuch dress fying around.
rT attire astraw-hat and a dogel
e man per
fe
airs,
question up.
ve aces at a
se
te jt Gata ary Stepe forward in this manner:
2 if 70 or eae what kind of Tooth
powder sits uses, “Avy dan Who wad ‘kiss & young
y's back 1s a bri
“Country Muitins” ‘slings out an inquiry in regar
to breaking cults, Always bo auve to" bceais your
colts with a'stone hammer and save the pieces, is our
experience.
Harry Looseshirt hag the dandraft; how shail he ro-
mo} larry, prot with caution,
Oru is viet
‘a racic ‘tno counts bie vietins ny
te score. Rera i ate Be : ee tim 30t0 &
bi out into the back yard and
onto'bim. But 3 set the dog
“nistorions? wistes us. fo state why Sapoteon
went to Egypt. Napoleon was a friend of ot
hate to ita into bis private affairs, Prova
id Egypt bad ie as nd he went over to her
Billy beeswax dos big hinds. How shall be make
them smaller? Chop off tae tingers. Next
Elza H, P. Halsey writes us & very utbelo letter,
Seeine theta young, chap got smitten on her. Sue
wouldi’t, thovgt, ad he Rot made Ando
comes around
out of
urd
imple word ish.” but
i$ spare time out.
rely uatusel's.hableation rowing Ais»
in ie bass voice, the effect 1s decided
nots, and it Keeps otter Dea Xoo for Wild gers to
ave’ thelt love-making distarhed by the
ant of “ash 7 Eliza, Sour advice to you is etter to
parry the cg ian Or hire your Ei brothor | 10 go
ing after lint. Jn elther ease he
Bueuinent he dese
‘This closes our batch of letters; we ate giad of It,
and we are willing to wager untold wealtu that the
reader is, to
a
Rats of the Woods.
“ I wast to ask you aconundrum,” sald a man
who lives wvell up in the mountains to C.F. Hole
dor, the California naturalist, “I wont to town
ne day and carried home a large sack of graiv.
‘That night IT fot the sick lying on the foot
by.the bed, and as it was rather mild [left the
didnt come until next vay, and when
show him the grain in the ‘boot
had all been takea out and
to me bya friond 5 tray.
tn tho mountains of this State
a gold watch fustened to his beit by a string of
buckskin, and one motuing, after camping out
upon the ground, the watch was missing—an
ghoomfortable velronamntnnce, to say the least.
mbered having wound up the
etch ‘pen oli {o sleep; hence it was evident
at it had been taken in the night, | Every one
ini above e suspicion, nnd so a thor-
and soon repaid”
yok its of the hide cut up into
small pieces. e were followed up, or traced,
until a heap of twigs wos found; beneath this,
among the rocks, ino watch waa found ‘unin?
jured. The heap was the nest of a wood rat,
Who was also the shit, and to the same animal
ough search Was
by the discover
live in tress.and squierols vi tho ground
on ove, sad gurlously
enough, considering its mischievous qualities, is
a timid’ little creature, rarely seen, though the
evidences of its presence are every where present,
Otten upon the ground m pile ot twige will bo
seen, perhaps Dunehed about a tree or limb, but,
as @ rule, the nest is in a tree several feet above
the ground.
Opect the Sinest that I have soon was in Mil
‘d canyon, oceupying an old tree, and com-
posed of govern! Bunnele of twigs and branches
perched in the limbs ton fect from the ground,
Ine size of the neat telling of the amount of work,
erformed by these little workers in building up
their homes, ‘This nest was so firmly put to-
gether that it was almost impossible totear it
Spart, and several shots fred through it fatled
to injure it, as faras could be determined.
3
o
by the writer there was no little
shown ia tha
Two points we were injoediately noticenblos j rst,
that the rat made the nest
as possible directly down through the nest,
showing hat there Were three distinct parts or
st tories, ‘upper, made of thickly-matted
rash, eonstituted the root, that was quite sufn-
lont to aed Qn ordinary mount of rain. Di-
rectly below this as a store-
| house, and ‘packed to roplation with acorns, halle
enten ears of corn, and # variety of substances
Intended as food. ‘This room waa two feet broad
and six or eight inehes in height, and directly
beneath. ie was the nest Proper, ‘@ most com!
ble apartment made up of soft fiber of vogetn-
ble matvor picked fo Nae that it resembled cot-
ton, constituting a warm nest or living room for
the” young, and perfectly dry at all times, All
these apartments Ot
by many balle of assAgeWuys ; 0
@ subterranean
‘oming to the surface ten or
ests are provided *
inthis way, and the collector ts tnysts by the
pears,
The Kocky Mountain wood-rat is remarkable
for its. thisvin ing, propensities, ‘These animals
steal in many in ure cusseduess,”
and if anything Is lose about & camp the men
generally Seurch the nest of the neares! wood-
mut. Some of rie-a-brae about ono may be *
summed up as follows: ‘Ten parte of cora- -eobs,
three pleore of blue Blass (probably tho remains
of the 0 ull of @ bird,
nest were pans ole
and the strap of a spur, these being evi-
douty brought from a trail some distance away.