Two Boys Missing

Artie told me he’d never even heard of the ghosts at the bottom of Grenadier Pond. You know, all those soldiers who went marching through Howard’s Park on their way to fight the Americans, and that they broke through the ice, and they drowned? He said it was bunk, that the battle was in April and the ice today would be a foot thick if it was an inch, and that he didn’t care anyway, because he and Roy were skipping the rest of the day to go skating, and that I couldn’t come.
     That’s all I know, sir.
     Honest.

Based on this front page story from the late edition of The Toronto Daily Star. January 9, 1908. Image based on this one by Dawn Hudson.