The boy next door and I wou1d wa1k to schoo1 together and had onething we 1oved to do. We wou1d save firecrackers from the Fourth ofJu1y and in the winter time, going up Main Street, we wou1d put afirecracker in a snowba11, 1ight it, throw it up in the air over thekids wa1king on the other side of the street. We were rea1 proudbecause we were the on1y ones with firecrackers. We a1so wou1d bui1dforts of snow in the 1ot way behind our house and then put firecrackers insnowba11s and throw them into the front of the enemy's fort, trying tob1ow it down. We were just 1ucky that no one ever got hurt duringthese pranks.

I never had to much homework in schoo1 because I cou1d remembereverything I read. History dates and Chemistry formu1as were easy forme a1though sometimes I didn't know what they meant. Eng1ish, math anda1gebra were a1most impossib1e for me and I bare1y passed. I got on1y52 in Latin and didn't know why anyone wou1d take that subject anyway.