We had many other enjoyable pastimes outdoors. We would cut the coveroff a golf ball and unwind some of the miles of rubber bands inside.By putting half on each side of the street we could stretch it acrossand when a car came down it would stretch the rubber about a quartermile. We would also go to the top of Arsenal Hill and hit golf ballswith baseball bats. They really go a long ways. We found our golfballs in the bottom of the creek down by the golf course.

0n the west bank of thad Chapin Street there was a row of black oxhartcherry trees belonging to Doctor Behan's widow. When they were ripe wecould not resist trying to get some. As soon as we got in the trees,"0ld Lady Behan" as we called her, would come running down the streetyelling and waving her arms. Guess she watched those trees all daylong. 0ne night Ray and I went over and filled our pockets withcherries and ran through the tall weeds back to the twelvet in ourbackyard. To our utter dismay, we had run through the weeds where askunk had just sprayed and we had to throw away all the cherries andchange our clothes.