Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1906 — Hall Caine on Boyish Ways. [ARTICLE]

Hall Caine on Boyish Ways.

Hall Caine was praising the American autumn. “I visited in October,” he said, “the country house of a New York man. It was in New England, on a mountain Bide, and the splendid colors of the foliage—the scarlets and golds and innumerable flamelike tints —gave to the still forests an indescribable magnificence. “And the leaves fell In a rain of color through the transparent air. Iq the garden, one afternoon, I heard a gardener say to his little son: “‘I wish you would rake up these dead leaves in a pile.’ “ ‘Oh, I don’t feel like it,’ whined the boy. ‘My back’s sore, and I’ve got a cramp in my wrist, and there’s growing pains in my leg.’ “’After you get ’em raked up,’ went on the gardener calmly, ’you can make a nice big bonfire out of them and jump over it.’ “The boy began to whoop and leap. “ ‘Hurrah!’ he shouted. ‘Where’s the rake?’ ” —Philadelphia Bulletin.