University of Oregon monthly., April 01, 1908, Image 15

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“Did he throw at you?” yelled Hooty.
, “Naw, ma’s in the last buggy/’ answered Kirk.
Then us kids hiked. I bet you it didn’t take more than a minute
to get to Gliten’s pond. Kirky was there and'had his shirt off when
we £ome up apantin’ an’ all o u t Of breath-^-then we heard a splash
an ’ he was cornin’ up half-way across the pond; nut' where it was
over his head an’ hands. He come aswimmin’ back to -the^spring-
hoard, splutterin’ an’ shakin’ the water from his - face an when
H ooty asked him if it was.<old he s a id ,/‘Naw, itL’s, .warmer’n ^'ut
on the: bank after you once J e t down.’’
Then Hooty-gave a jump but.yOu bet he didn’t pome up in the
middle of the,pond; he com e'up right, where h e ,xygnt Jown,,about*
a foot .from the bank. I couldn’t help .a-Ubghin’. fiOoty said I
couldn’t a’ done any better. I ’d showed ^him if I hadn’t, been afraid
ma’d see my hair was wet. S,
“You don’t have to go under,” ?Says -Kirky.
' “Oh, th at’s all right,” says X, an’ I Was pullin’ off., when I hap­
pened to think of my rheumatism. ‘ Ma never likes, tp; have,, me gP'
swimmin’.on-account pf my rheumatism?" I .tried to je ll ,Kjrky,that.
an’ all of a sudden I got a dab;-p|- mud On the shoulder that nearly
knocked me over. I had to go - in th in / po I waded in
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about two - W deep. Lawzee j b u t'it was cold. I thought I ’d freeze
to the spot.
“Kirk'y, I thought you ^said it weren’t cold,”, s.a^sJJ'.,'
He laughed and |splashed water, over mb, and. says, “It aint,
when you once let down.”
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There was a yell an’ a dab of mud an’ a handful of water- an
| | didntf^know nothin’ for about a minute- Finally I got on my
„feet an’ it wasn’t so cold. I told Kirky and Hooty how I d just
ibeen puttin’ jt on to make them think I was scared.
,/i-We -monkeyed around in the; w ater till IjOoty said playin’ In­
dians would be fun. $ W e covered ours$lvb£ with m ud' and drew
pictures on ourselves with ‘sharp sticks.. Kirky an’ B ooty. took
two Indian nam es/Sagw a and Sinbad ’causedt was all weteould think
of. T hen we rushed onto a crowd of-sheep. . W ell you dughter to
seen them sheep—they didn’t know where was straight up. Kirky
thought he saw the feller what owned the sheep so,-we.kids hiked
dO the other side of the pond and jumped in and swam ’ro u n d Ik e
w e’d been there albthe time,-, W hen we seen it wasn’t theCsame feller,