East High School - Exodus Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)
- Class of 1918
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Page 7 text:
“
THE BLUE
Is it to be on a cinder track or over an
ordinary road? That would be a great
difference.
Have you any fond hope. asked
Jones, that I am going to make a
Roman holiday of myself for the benefit
of the whole community? I am sure that
is what you would like. You would be
out there with a brass band. No, my
friend, I ask no advantages. I am quite
willing to take my chances on any ordi-
nary road and in ordinary walking
clothes.
123,
Extraordinary English knickerboek-
ers, you mean, corrected Bill Bailey.
You can take the Lake Shore Boule-
vard to Willoughby, suggested Ryan,
that is a good road and you can't get
lost. It is but twelve miles, but if you
walk it in three hours, we'll call it
square.
Yes, I know that road, I have driven
over it many times in the machine. Out
beyond Euclid Beach, Villa Angela, iVil-
loughbeach, and all those places? All
right, I'll take that road.
Bill Bailey reflected a moment. I
think, he admitted, with a shake of his
head, that it can certainly be 'done by
any .man with strength and sand. but
Jones canlt do it.
I'll tell you what, old scout, de-
clared Jones, indignantly, 'iI'll bet you
ten dollars on the event.
No, I won't go you ten, because I
don't believe in betting so much on a
certainty. Besides you are hard up now,
and you would undoubtedly borrow from
me the money with which you 'd pay your
bet. I can't afford to have you do that,
but I will contribute a five like the rest
to the purse.
It was arranged that Jones should
choose his day, but he was to give them
notice of it on the morning which he
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started. Just then the bell rang and
Jones and Gray went to their classes.
When they had gone, Bailey let out a
great ery of joy. He can do it easily, I
know, he said. Nile sha.ll lose our
money, but, by gosh, it will be worth the
price. XVe must get the other fellow to
bet with him so he won't back out. Let 'S
go and get ready for it at once.
XYhat do you 1nean?i' asked Ryan,
what are you going to do?
Can't you guess, Jim, you Irishman?
Come on, I'll tell you, and they went up
Blade Park towards the printer's.
Three or four days after this Jones ap-
peared in his walking breeches and big
Scotch stockings, and announced he was
going to start. He would leave the school
at one o'eloek and arrive in XVilloughby
at four o'clock on that afternoon.
B-yan and Gray said that they might be
at the finish to receive him, if they found
nothing better to do, otherwise he could
time himself. Both of these boys had
jobs at the corner store and had to work
until one-thirty so that they were unable
to see him start. Bailey also had an en-
gagement with the dentist which he
really ought not to break. He would
endeavor to be at the finish, however, to
carry him home. E
Promptly at one Jones left the school
with a swinging stride, and struck up
toward his goal. He was in fine form and
spirits, and had chosen his day well. It
was one of those glorious November days
when a man can do anything, when the
northwest breeze fills your lungs and
swells your chest into a balloon that
seems to lift you clear oif your feet. On
such a day the twelve miles ahead of him
seemed nothing to Jones, and he sprang
along overiiowing with spirits.
The discoveries along the road seemed to
him more beautiful and interesting than
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ing ever made me feel so happy since I
was a boy, when you used to put your
hand upon my forehead as I went to
sleep. Put it there now, mother. Please,
mother, now. fN'urse looks shyly toward
his wife and than pats her hand on his
bro-w.j While I was sick I grew to love that
child. Imagine me with five years more
than twice her age, yet loving her. But
she does not love me, I know it, and it's
best that way. Remember how, when I
first went to school, you told me to divide
my lunch with teacher, and after what a
joke that always was with us. And how
you used to rim my face with both your
hands and kiss me as I went away.
Mother, kiss me like that now. Quick,
mother, quick. I feel-I the me-rse hesi-
tates, blu-shes the ruddy color of youth., but
with the trcmsyig-mfaiion of love on hor face
she takes his face 'inn both her hands afnd
kisses him as simply as his mother 'woulcU.
Man: lVith that upon my lips, oh,
mother dear, ,twould not be hard to die.
fHc falls back Z-ifelessj
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THE WINGED WONDER.
By Ray Neal.
It was all the result of a violent dis-
cussion over at Tomlinson's, during the
intermission at eleven o'clock. Jones
held that four miles an hour was an easy
walking gait. Ryan and Gray said it
wasn't.
'UI tell you, said the latter, When
you are doing better than three and a
half, you are hitting her up pretty well,
and you' couldn't keep it up for any
length of time. Don't you remember,
Jim, we timed ourselves last fall when
we walked down to Gordon Park to foot-
ball practice?
Yes, and we went at a pretty good
pace, too, added Ryan. U
That was probably after that East
Tech game when you were down-hearted
and all bruised up after that twenty to
nothing defeat, Jones explained. NUn-
der those circumstances it would un-
doubtedly take you an hour to walk a
mile.
No'it wasn't anything of the kind,
we're not like you, and we were not
down-hearted and all bruised up after
that East Tech game, returned Gray.
No, sir, you couldn't walk four hours
that pace to save your neck.
'tI'm betting I could, Jones replied,
I have done it often while out shoot-
ing.
I dare say you thought so, have you
ever tried it at a measured stretch?
No, but I can guess at about what
rate I am walking, and four miles an
hour is a good easy swing. I'll bet you
a V that I can walk sixteen miles in four
hoursf,
I'll take that, answered Ryan
promptly.
So will I if you oifer the same, said
Gray.
Yes, I'll bet you too, said Jones.
Just then Bill Bailey came in giving
the door a thump as he opened it.
NVhat are you fellows betting on
now? he asked,
Jones thinks that he ca.n walk six-
teen miles in four hours, answered
Ryan, and we each have tive dollars
worth of opinion that he can't. lVhat do
you think about it?
I don 't know, he is a pretty fast man.
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ever before. Washington he thought
might take command of an army four or
five times a da.y in such weather.
Jones reached Euclid Beach well ahead
of time. To his annoyance he saw the
road c1'owded, principally with small
boys. Something or other must have
happened, he thought. A dog fight, or
runaway, or something. If the attrac-
tion is still on, I am all right, if not, I
shall have to run the gauntlet.
He soon found that his latter appre-
hension was the true one, and that he
was in for just that kind of entertain-
ment. A great cheer went up as he ap-
proached, and a body of happy children
ran forward to meet him. They closed in
all around and escorted him along the
main road between two lines of shouting
people. -
Hey, mister, give ussomeli' Go on,
you 'll do it, good boy, 'Wigseyf' VVhen
're yer goin' to fork 'em out?,' Rats,
dat ain't him, dat fancy guy is one o'
dem high school guys. Will yer look
at de jay? Get on to de legs.
VVhat's he got 'em wrapped up in,
shawls? Naw, carpets. Say, mis-
ter, yer pants is got caught inside your
socks. I guess dem is English, yer
know. Ain't yer going to give us no
gum? A-ah, let 'm alone, he ain't
nothin' but one o' them stoodent jays.
He ain 't no winged wonder, a-ah!
The above was what Jones enjoyed as
he passed Euclid Beach. He finally shook
oif his pursuers, and breathed freely
again for about five minutes as he sat
down to rest. VVhile he sat there a ma-
chine pulled up in front of him. He knew
the man who was at the wheel and called
to him, Hullo, Jones, came the recog-
nition, what are you doing out here?
Off on a tramp, a glorious day for
exercise, isn't it?
'iYes, you have no idea how I enjoy
this ride.
'Well, good-by, I have got to hurry
along, I am walking against time.
Jones strode on from bad to worse, for
he was now about to pass Villa Angela.
the girls' seminary. Here there was a
large group of the students of the institu-
tion by the roadside. Jones had never
before been afflicted with bashfulness,
and did not acknowledge that he was
troubled in that way now, but he felt
peculiarly alone, and would have given
much for another, man or just a few less
girls. By the terms of his bet he could
not run any of the way, but a giggle al-
most made him throw up the stakes and
break the pace. By a great effort, how-
ever, he braced up, and even smiled cheer-
fully. He made an inward resolution
never to look at a girl again.
He strode on again through Euclid
Village. Nottingham, XVilloughbeach and
others, and to his horror he found in each
town the same gathering, and went
through the same ordeal that he had re-
ceived before. Had he gone to work and
picked out a public holiday? No, he was
sure it was not that, and the fact that it
was Saturday. and the schools had there-
fore turned their swarms loose to the
world, would not account for all the
crowd in every village. Perhaps there
was an extra election going on in that
country. What puzzled him most, how-
ever. was that all of the children expect-
ed something of him besides mere amuse-
ment, and a pitiable example of dress.
Vlihen more than half way, he stopped
to speak with a farmer leaning over the
fence by the roadf The old farmer
looked at Jones with wonder and interest,
but did not think it necessary, as had the
good citizens of the factory towns. to heap
scorn and derision on de boob. He
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