THE COUNTRY BOY 



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bottom pants we wore 

 trousers legs so tight 

 that it was difficult for 

 some of us to get our 

 feet through them, and 

 it was at the beginning 

 of the tight-pants craze 

 that a fellow with a 

 curled moustache and a 

 pocket knife with a 

 girl's picture in it and 

 fifty pairs of roller 

 skates came to Silverton. 

 He started a skating 

 rink in one of the big 

 vacant halls on ISlam 

 Street, and the first week 

 there was standing room only. The second 

 week about half the skates were in the shops for 

 repairs and several of the town's best citizens 

 had hard work to straighten up. The proprie- 

 tor of the skating rink made a big hit socially. 

 He wore a new brand of perfumery and re- 

 fused to give the receipt, so there was no com- 

 peting with him along that line. The bottoms 

 of his trousers were not any bigger than the 



