like a slave to get the patch of long grass in front of the gate on the street cut and levelled like other boulevards. Dick was very different from either of us. His chief delight was to play ball with a crowd of boys and always had some pal with him. For years he & Ferdie Wiser were inseperable companions. He was quicker at school and went farther in the High School than we did. He loved to read stories and to spend his money. One time some one gave him five cents so he posted right off to spend it. Aunty cautioned him not to spend it on anything foolish so he returned with a loaf of bread. He never cared for the tramps in the wood as much as Quint or I and I believe he was half afraid of the horses, unless they behaved themselves very seemly. He had the reputation for being a very slick diver and good swimmer, but was noted mostly for his neatness and for being particular to have his clothes just right. I was always an awful ragamuffin. He was a favorite with the girls and could always have a good time with them while I could only wish I could but could never think of any thing to do or say when I was with them and I don't believe Quint in those days had any use for them whatever. So there we stood as schoolboys with natures very

different although we played in the sam eold garden learned the dsame lessons from the same teachers and were entertained by the same fairy tales. Simce then old Dick hasd been trained as a Coalry man and Artilleryman riding gun carriages at breakneck speed over the roughest of ground with the roughest of men. He has tended horses in the Veterinary corps and ridden al the way across Canada in a boxcar with horses for his sole companions, and enjoyed it. He ahs sailed across the Pacific Ocean and back in troopships of ancient design and has spent months as a soldier on one of the gruelest of foreign countries among people who for cutoms, manners & morals couldn't be very much differewnt from than we are if they tried. He has experienced all the poeculiarities of life in a Pariarie Village and now finds himself where the commercial pulse of the Natiuon beats the hardest, the largest of our cities & in constant contact with men to whom world finance is an open book. He still sings and dances an talks the same a syour but not so much and is gradually assuming the air & manner of a typical business man. Quint;s life has been as varied as Dick's and more For two years he was a sailor on the lakes running from Fort William & Montreal, then he started out to learn