"srssy" Reed

When Thomas B. Reed was a boy, so a story goes, he used to put on a big apron and help his mother with the housework, which afforded much amusement to the other urchins of PortJand, who were fond of calling him '"sissy.'" Oue day he was chnrni' " while the boys stood about guying He finished the job and thentookolï his apron and thrashed half a dozen of them. That was the last heard of "sïssy." -