I sraordinary experiences, on at of terest to students of psycest sequeny mental development and subsequent labors. But it is indispensable to first relate tances and ditions ial explanation.

        From co trate attention upon myself. t, to my present vie    augo appreciate timable value of introspe in tion of life, as ion and t stream of impressions p into our sciouseence    persons are so absorbed in templation of tside    to ure deatraceable to t is a istake to avoid imaginary, and ig is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole.

        Abstinence    alo my liking but I find ample re in ting some to my precepts and vis I wo.

        A s time ago I urning to my el. It ter cold nigaxi to be ly as anxious as myself to get under cover. Suddenly my legs    up in tant tracted, I sranger caugh me.

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        "O fifty-nine," I replied. " of it?"

        "ell," said    do t never a man."

        About a moo order o an oculist ests.    me incredulously as I read off    print at siderable distance. But    sixty onis.

        Friends of mien remark t my suits fit me like gloves but t kno all my easurements ion I may tell a funny story.

        One evening, in ter of 1885, Mr. Edison, Eding pany, Mr. Batcered a little place opposite 65 Fifted. Someone suggested guessing ep on a scale. Ediso me all over and said: "tesla    exactly. Stript I ill my    Edison could guess my    so closely?"

        "ell," ell you, fidentially, but you must not say anytime in a Cer-''s why."

        My friend, tells of an Englises and    a year later laug loud. I    took me lo to appreciate Johnson''s joke.

        No of a careful and measured mode of living and per astonis times in my youtedness, I got into all sorts of difficulties, dangers and scrapes from ed myself as by e. I    droimes;    mist being cremated. I ombed, lost and frozen. I    t    I am y today seems like a miracle. But as I recall ts to my mind I feel vi my preservation    altogetal.

        An ior''s endeavor is essentially lifesaving. s and veniences, o ty of our existeer qualified to protect    and resourceful. If I    I    in to judge for ion one or tances.

        On one occasioo scare some friends ing structure and slip out quietly at to me as naturally as to a dud I    t I could perform t. Accly I plunged into ter and, urned around and proceeded rapidly toe side. t I ructure, I rose to t to my dismay struck a beam. Of course, I quickly dived and fed arokes until my breato give out. Rising for time, my act e. ic attempt but t orture of suppressed breatting unendurable, my brain    myself sinking. At t moment, ion seemed absolutely    and tructure above me appeared before my vision. I eit t ttle space beter and ting on ted up, prest my mouto to intle air, unfortunately mingled er ed til my , errible rate, quieted doer t I made a number of unsuccessful dives, ely lost tion, but finally succeeded iing out of trap when my friends had already given me up and were fishing for my body.

        t bat I soon fot ter I fell into a . ty    t time. As a rule t of ter o s to it    not very dangerous in    aloo to enjoy myself as usual.    distance from to observe t ter ly. I tried to get a it oo late. Luckily, t over by taking    my d I o keep my    a soul ed and uo and train longer. just as I    to let go, to be das t a familiar diagram illustrating t tion is proportioo tomatically I turned on my left side. As if by magic t paratively easy in t position to resist tream. But till fronted me. I kne sooner or later I     possible for any o reacime, even if I attracted attention.    I am ambidextrous no tively little strengt arm. For t dare to turn on to rest and not to slo ao ter and deeper. It o failing at its very end for I ed o get over    ouny ford fell in a sually all t side and it took several ances but t to s    not been for tor''s instinct I    o tell tale.

        Ied people en asked me o i. t recolle in t of tempt I recall ious for it involved tion of an apparatus and a meticipated but tter    es o tackle e aement in t m all started out to catc alone aed oo a quarrel ured it as someties, and    to be one of ty. Urged by y, I some    iron ones, bent it into se to a strong string. I t a rod, gat, and    doo t I could not catc disced o me to day    of a frog sitting on a stump.    At first    by and by    and became bloods, o the hook.

        Immediately I pulled ried te of tfit    noto me time I kept my secret and e finally yielded to t of Cmas. Every boy could t disaster to the frogs.

        In my    attempt I seem to ed u instinctive impulse ed me-to ure to table pest in t try and sometimes broke trees by t of ttaco a crosspiece, ratably arranged on a transmit tion of to a large disd so derive siderable "poures , for oarted to stop and tinued     il a strange boy came to tired officer in trian Army. t urce May-bugs alive and e blue-point oysters. t disgusting sigerminated my endeavors in to touc for t matter.

        After t, I believe, I uook to take apart and assemble tion I    often failed in tter. So it came t    my o a sudden    in a manner not too delicate and it took ty years before I tackled another clockwain.

        Sly ter I    into ture of a kind of pop-gun on, and t against tomacube o emperature and one of t. t sisted iing a tube of taper from talks. I did very    gun but my activities interfered    .

        If I remember rigook t sure ain. At t time I ional poetry and full of admiration for ts of to spend alks    of t ticle.

        I    tary sc ture o ttle city of Gospiearby. ty to me. It almost broke my    to part from eons, c flock of geese o turn from t sundotle formation, so perfect t it    aviators of t day to s a prisoner, ge people I sa I y dudes . But my    trial came on Sunday tend t , t of    ure in a g before I ombed for a nigain     this one was worse.

        to pompous o ted up and attired rain and attendants. One Sunday I    finisairs    tore off ry fired by ras. My fatle slap on t ered to me but I almost feel it no and fusion t folloically ostracised until sometimation of ty.

        Aerprising young mert. A need red and black. Oernoon trial ransported to tire population turned out to    spectacle. o pump, but not a drop of er came from ts tried in vain to locate trouble. te    to not instinctively I felt for tion er and found t it    up ter rus a fereets of Syracuse and sing Eureka at top of    make a greater impression the day.

        Upoling in ty I began a four-years'' course in tory to my studies at ts and exploits, as roubles, tinued. Among ottaiin of ccry. My metremely simple. I , ate t several anser doo ter t all I o do o to distract its attention, jump up and grab it before it could extricate itself from ture as many as I desired. But on one occasion somet t a fine pair of birds and urning    t, tful racket. In a fees t and soon enveloped us. ted until all of a sudden I received a blotacked me viciously. I o release to join my friend waken refuge in a cave.

        Ied me and turned my attention to er turbines. I structed many of t pleasure iing traordinary    may illustrate. My uncle ime and more ted by a description of Niagara Falls I ured in my imagination a big    I o Amerid carry out ty years later I sa at Niagara and marveled at tery of the mind.

        I made all kinds of otrivances and traptions but among ts I produced . My arroraversed a plank of pine one inuous tigomac of a crocodile and I am often o t I am able even noo digest cobble-stones!

        Nor    I pass in silence my performances o give a stunni tell of one of my feats ique implement of o tmost ty of tig rout ime to time os glistening body s a projeg rock beyond. Of course any boy mig a fisious ditions but I uook a muc task and I foretold to my uo test detail, ended doing. I o oo meet ts body against t it in t    me almost scared out of s and exclaimed "Vade retro Satanas!" and it ,    I feel t I could peacefully rest on my laurels for a thousand years.
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