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Canadian Forestry Journal, September, ipid 



A Boy's Plucky Act. 



The following letter is commend- 

 ed to the attention of every reader 

 of the Journal. It was written at 

 Danford Lake, Quebec, by Arnold 

 Heeney, 14 years of age, to his fa- 

 ther, Rev. W. B. Heeney, Rector of 

 St. Luke's Church, Winnipeg, and 

 testifies to a genuine conservationist 

 spirit in the lad, as well as to his 

 courage and unselfishness. 



After telling his father of the ex- 

 cessively dry weather, the boy pro- 

 ceeds : 



"You almost lost your Holmes' 

 place by fire. Uncle Percy went to 

 Ottawa yesterday, and as he passed 

 the place where the creek used to be, 

 on the way to the station, he noticed 

 smoke coming from the bush away 

 to the right of the hill. He jumped 

 off to investigate, and found fire in 

 an old pine stump quite a way into 

 the bush. He met Uncle Willie 

 Rogan and asked him to see that we 

 hired some men to put it out. As 

 soon as we received the message I 

 tried to get a man to help me, but as 

 I couldn't I had to go by myself, and 

 set out with an axe and a shovel. By 

 the time I reached the fire it had 

 burnt out of the stump about twelve 

 feet, and was catching on the lower 

 bows of the spruce and cedar. The 

 flames were quite high, and the 

 smoke choked me. The first thing 

 I did was to quell the flames, and 

 then I cut down all the trees in the 

 fire area (about 7). As there was 

 no water near, I threw sand on till 

 the fire was extinguished. It took 

 me about two to three hours. I 

 have gone back to look at it several 

 times since, and all danger is past, 

 so don't worry. I was pretty tired 

 when I finished, and was absolutely 

 black." 



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