THE COUNTRY BOY 



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TO f^ t: 



new gartering 

 and some candy 

 to take home 

 to the children, 

 and was soon 

 back on the 

 books again. 



Silverton is 

 located on Sil- 

 ver Creek, fif- 

 teen miles east 

 of Salem. The 

 stream rmis 

 through the 

 middle of the 

 town and is 

 crossed by o n e 

 of those home- 

 like old covered 

 bridges that bear all the latest posters, social, 

 theatrical and agricultural, including the lost, 

 strayed or stolen. There was every class of 

 people in Silverton but negroes; there were 

 Chinamen, and Indians lived there in small 

 numbers; but, for some strange reason, no 

 coons. The founders of Silverton were all 



