Central High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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A Modern Version of the Kilkenny Cats School was out. and Hilly Williams was walking homo. Taken as a whole the day had not been successful. Miss Walsh, his teacher, had, during every recitation, called on him for exactly the questions he did not know, and as a result lie had spent an extra hour iti school studying. Also this was the first balmy day »f April, and his parents had, as he thought, unreasonably refused to allow him to go barefoot. Now, as he thought of all this, he decided to go barefoot for the rest of the afternoon 11 is father would never know it. So he sat down and quickly rid himself of those useless articles of apparel, shoes and stockings. bile he was doing this, his boon companion came up. John Cutler, known as “Dome.” was a boy with a rather practical mind, and the first remark he addressed to Hilly was. “Say. 1 don’t believe that those cats really ate each other up. ’Phis was in reference to the story of the famous Kilkenny cats that had been told by Miss W alsh that day. Of course they didn’t, but gee, I bet they fought hanging over that line. As he said this a daring and altogether novel idea sprang into Hilly’s mind. Why not imitate those reckless soldiers of Kilkenny, and tie two cats together by their tails and hang them over a rope and let them fight! Hilly did not stop to think, but rapidly outlined his plan to John, whom he sent in search oi a cat. lie himself set out for home to secure a pet Maltese belonging to his older sister. Hilly crept in. He discovered Fluff dozing on a sunny window sill and cautiously approached her. Hut she fled and took refuge upstairs. Bill immediately followed and dragged “Fluff,” snarling and spitting, from under a bureau. Outside he met John with another one. a wild-looking “Tiger. They tied the tails together, and threw the two cats over a clothes line. The imitation was a success. The cats, after being hung on the line, yowled most pitifully for a second. Then each abruptly and at the same instant, discovered that he was not alone and each seemed to blame the other for his pain. Never had Billy pictured such a tight, even in his w ildest dreams. Snarls and shrieks and hits of flying fur tilled the air. As Hilly and John, seated in a chicken coop a little distance away, watched this whirling mass, fate was fast sealing their doom inside the house Mrs. Williams, entertaining callers, tried to carry on the conversation and ignore the clamor, but it would not be ignored. After hastily excusing herself, she set out to stop the noise. Just as she reached the back door tin-string on the cats tails slipped and they fell to the ground, vanishing like two shadows. For a second Mrs. W illiams laughed, but remembering herself she called “Hilly.’’ Page faYNlv seven

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“iMa am. 1 he startled boy turned with a guilt face as lie suddenly remembered his bare legs. Billy, what on earth were you doing just now?” “Nothing.” “Nothing, and then as her gaze rested on his bare legs, “come here. il-liam. Ihdnt your father tell yoy you could not go barefoot today, (»o upstairs and wait for him.” Rosk KokEkts, ‘Mb A Peony Peeping over the wall at me. A peony, blinking its droll little eve at me. Saucy peony, Seeming to say. as it smiled at me. This peony, That it beckoned me, called me. then scorned me. Cruel peony! But when leaning coyly toward me. Sly peony. I plucked it and crushed it against me. This peony— Now it lies faded next to me, Poor peony! Paying the price of its lure to me. A peony. —Km m a Stockm ». I s- rape .‘wity-right