Auxvasse High School - Saber Tooth Yearbook (Auxvasse, MO)

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Latin in One Breath Daeder than the Dead Sea,drier than the Saharagand -- thats my conception of Latin. It is no wonder that Latin became a dead language. Look at its effect on the Romans,and look at its effect on the poor Latin student of today. Why,that language is so pass'e it is funny. ' The only reason Caesar was great was that he did not live in Rome all of his short life. The Greeks adopted some of the ideas of the Romans ,but when they sniffed their lingo,they soon returned to their headquarters in a hurried re-migration It is a seditious libel to teach such an unearthly tonguel A language is often refered to as antongueU HDanU Webster describes Utonguen as a point or long narrow strip of land projecting into a body of water. The only thing wrong with that is that it dosen't project far enough into the water. Latin caused the death of Latium,and the people didn't sentence the death of the language until the seventeenth century,at which time they were becoming more intelligent. How that the world is three centuries more educated the people use Latin.iThis is the reason that I believe that I was born eight centuries too sooni. Some people laugh because the Chinese read backwards. Did they ever stop to think new Latin is read? no: That shows you how people think. nGee whiz!W Everything has a beginning and And in the an end. Why should Latin be an exception. face of all that,then,why is it that we all study Latin,and --- enjoy it?

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THEM GOOD OLD DAYS C a ballad 7 I I rode the range, when I was young From Kansas! grassy plains To desert flats of Arizona, Where it hardly ever rainsg Drove trail herds up from Texas In the 8O's and before, But things ain't like they used to They'l1 never be no more. I shorely was some reckless guy, In my younger days, Could shoot a gun with either hand A dozen different waysg I had the bad men'buffaloed- Had 'em bluffed, for shore- Naw,things ain't like they used to They'll never be no more. Me and Murphy,of the Brazos, Went to town one day' And loaded up on liker, In the good old-fassioned wayg We plum broke up two dances- y Put the dancers off the floor. Nope, things ain't like they used They'll never be no more. Nowadays folks won't believe Some of the things I did - When I run around with Billy, That wild and woolly Kidg ' Why,we broke the jail at Iincoln, Shot-two deputies at the door- things ain't like they used Shucks, They'll never be no more. Yep,I surely was a had one, In a rougher,tougher day, Only one that had 'em skear't, The gunmen used to sayg If a hombre tried to pull a gun, I'd lay him on the floor, No, things ain't like they used to They'll never be no more. The woolly west has got effete, It makes me sore to think That nowadays a guy can't buy Hisself a decent drinkg So all I can do is sit and sigh For the good old days of yoro, 'Cause I ain't young like I used t I'll never be no more. -R.V.Gilbert. be, 9 be, to be, o be, t be, o be,

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'Primary Room . 'When school started last September there were twenty- three pupils several from in our room. But as time went on we lost this number. , In our beginners class Carol Frances Hill was the first to leave us. She moved to Fulton. Soon Ann Kellerhals Went to Chicago. Later on in the year,Robert Lee Taylor and Myrtle Nell Love moved away, - In the second grade we have had two to Join us,Harry Lee Gilbert and Billy Scott. In the third grade we have had several changes,Mary Janet Cope and James Hugh Haden have both moved away. . Margaret Lee absent since will soon be the only new him. Admire has been unfortunate in having been the end of the second quarter.We hope she able to be out again. Delbert Kieth has been member in our class.We are very glad,to have - Most of us were in the Christmas program. Some of the girls were French dolls while some of the boys were candle men and members of the pop corn squad. . Q On Valentine Day we had a post office.The front of - our post office was marked like the boxes in a real one, Miss Criswell acted as our post mistress as we had such heavy mail that day. A number of us acted as mail carriers After our mail was given out we were served heart shaped cookies,jello,and home made candy. We have had our store up and played store a number of times. Different ones have acted as the store-keeper, when we played. One day I oils for ten Too Much Change. stopped at the store and bought two new pen- cents. I gave the merchant a quarter, and without stopping to count the change I ran home. When I got home I looked to see how much money I had in my pocket. I found that the merchant had given me forty cents instead of fifteen.He must have thought that I had given him fifty cents. I ran and told mother about it.She said for me to return the money. Iwent back to the store, but the man was not in. I came home,ran some errands for mother,then I went back to the store.The merchant was still not there,so I sat down to wait. ' The Mmerchant soon came in,but waited on his long list of customers,before talking to me. Finally he was through with his customers and then I told him about his mistake. He was pleased and told me I could have something from the store for being such an honest girl. I looked and looked and finally took a book for a little lame girl.I ran home and told mother all about the book and she gave me some cookies for the little girl. I ran over to the little girl's house and knocked at the door.Her mother opened it. The little lame girl was