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at once and said: "But Mrs. Carlow, you have not asked me yet!" 

 She then asked me if I could do it and when I said that I would 

 try she ungraciously told me to do so then. I may say here that 

 I was always able, when a boy and up to the present, to make 

 out to do in some way or other what was required of me and in 

 this case I thought I saw no difficulty. 



I took my axe and went to the farm and, after some difficulty 

 and a good deal of thought, I ran the lines and made a brush fence 

 along three sides and the road allowance made the fourth and 

 five years later, when it was surveyed properly and added to the 

 church, I was found to be nearly right. 



This piece of work established my character and ability with 

 Mrs. Carlow. She had no children of her own and was bringing 

 up a young man named Harry Denmark, the son of her brother. 

 A private teacher came early every evening to give him lessons 

 and I was invited into the library by Mrs. Carlow to take part 

 in the lessons with the teacher and her nephew Harry. Apparent- 

 ly, I took advantage of this as the teacher told my brother that 

 I was all mouth and eyes when I was receiving lessons. Harry 

 was what would be called a "real sport" as he was on the river 

 all day sailing canoes or going on rafts and taking innumerable 

 chances. He built a skiff and, in the autumn, he and I went to 

 the Trent River, north of where my brother lived, and fished and 

 shot ducks all day long and returned to my brother's house at 

 night. By the end of the week we decided to return to Mrs. 

 Carlow's. I may say that the skiff had been brought up to the 

 river north of my brother's place, by a team from the farm and 

 we were now going to take the boat back by the river, which was 

 a foolhardy thing to try to do as there were two falls and numerous 

 rapids on the river below us. 



We ran one slide (Helly Falls Slide) and, as there was scarcely 

 any water on it, we went down it without difficulty ; in fact, to- 

 wards the bottom of it we had to pull the boat over the slippery 

 boards as there was no water. We had then a mile and a half to 

 Crow Bay where Harry's father lived, and below that another 

 mile and a half and we came to the Middle Falls. Here, Harry 

 got it into his head that we should run over the dam as the fall 



