Eureka High School - Sequoia Yearbook (Eureka, CA)

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THE SEQUOIA The court-room crowd quickly dispersed And I hied to my wheel, To ride back to Iny littered desk XYhere I could write my spiel And hasten to the restaurant To eat my ten-cent meal. 7 This evening I am quite content f'l'he clock has struck eleveny Since I have seen ealeh classmate- dear, Before I leave for heaven, For today in court, each one I saw Of the class of naughty-seven. .040 Mean. .0 By w. C., 'o8. The mealne-st trail in the meanest part of a God-forsaken country lealds to the meanest shack, where lives the meanest man, the owner of the meanest horse that ever scraped off a patck. But they were happy, very happy, for themea'n1 man thought the mean liorse unhappy, and the mean horse thought. th-e mean man unha.ppy. So when the moon rose over the clearingg, andthe greafsewood leaves grlistened in the silvery light the mean horse stamped and was happy, very happy, for he knew that the mean man could not sleep, and the mean man was happy, very happy, for he knew that the mean horse was not asleep. The moon smiled and sil- vered th-e Manzanita, and was happy, very happy, for it knew that the mean maui was happy and the mean horse was happy. 6' .0 CLEOPATRA. XVhen Marcus attempted' to Caesar By her smile she showed it would pleasarg Xvlllmll he swore by his honor He doted upon her, She coyly allowed him to squeasar.

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THE SEQUOIA The Duchess Augnaseo was there, She once was Irma l'r'att, And Beekwitlrs Genevieve, likewise, The Lady Ilansome-Bat. ller eoaelmian, too, sat just behind- l recognized our Nat. A milk111an 11ow came running i11, Ile l1ad a frenzied look. llis troubles to the judge he told- Someone had slwip-ed his book, And he, Steve Langford, did not know What milk to give the cook. Just as he Iinished, tliere arose A terrible hullabaloog A dippy man had broken: loose From au asylum new, And to the court-room he had come To see what he could do. The dortor, llattio Wloods, eame soon, And oiiered him some hay, It' he would come back home- with her And there would only stay l'ntil his family sent for him And gave 'tDoc', XVo-ods her pay. Judge Ilannah jumped up with a smile Then once againi looked stern-. 4' 'Till Monday sharp at one o'elock This court I now adjourn, For the lawyers and the jurors, too-, llave still some things to learn. The prisoner should have some steak, Potatoes more than one, Before thesession starts again On Monlday sharp at one. I now will look at Laing.5ford's ease And see what can be done.

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THE SEQUOIA 9959 b9b9b9b9bDb9b9b3b5b9b'9b-959 b3b9b'9b9b9bBb5b9bD'b9b5'b9 2 STORIES K 0 he Tzar. By J. M., '07. Althouffh it w-is llit ll'lV tho middlo ol' Mav i11 tho voal' 1-T85 the woather rw ' ' . . ., a had boon vory disagrooablo, and for t' wo wooks a thick fog had been haug- ingg' ovor tho wator. lliiriug this time tht- 'l'za1r had boon riding at anchor 4-loso to tho shoro of a Sllltlll 4-ovo about twonty milos so-uth of what. is now known as Vapto Blondoa-inlo. Uaipltailn Stolsky was alllgry. Thoro S-t 9lll10'll to bo no 1-ham-o of sailing those lll1lil10NVll 4-oasts for somo timo to romo, tho lardor was not. any too full, and abolvo all, thoro was no chauvo of plundtor- img som-o tino 1111o1-vl1a11t vossol 1'ot11r11i.11g' from a 4-ruiso i11 the North Pavitim-. With a small fortuno loft him by his llllt'l0, Sol-sky had tivo yours bot- foro built tho 'l'zar till tho Blark Soa. 111 t'0Il1ll'2ll.ly with Ivan ll'ill'V2lIlit'li, a fow friouds, illltl a. 1-row of pivkod lllt3'll ho had sailod hor to tho wostornl roast of AlIl't'l'lt'il. 011 this 1-ruiso tho t I'za.r hald booul suppliod with tho provisions Zllltl woalth til!tl0f0'll14l'l1PS'S lll4 lql'll2l-IlllllvllQ amd l'lVit'll now, al- llltlllgfll tho food siiptply was gt-ttillg low, tho hold of' tho vossol was tillod with a. valuablo t'2lI'g,2,'0, whilo i11 tho troasuro ro-om, situattod in tho vory bow- ols of tho ship, tho only 0IIll'2lll't'l' to whit-h was that flll'0'llg.fll S'olsky's room, woro storod sovoral t.o11s of gold 2l'Il1tl silvor bullion. 'l'h1o 'l'zar had boon oxtromoly lut-ky, for of tho ton ships which sho had mot illltl pluiidorod, oight. had boon l2ltlt'Il with troasuro. Sins-o tho vim-inity of tho 4-apo had bo-on roavliod throo wooks boforo, lltillllllg had boon so-on but fog, 2l'I1ltl Solsky was lI't':2llllllllg to fool rlostloss, ospoi-ially as thoro soointod no p1'os11oot of brightor woathor. 'l'ho1'ofo1-o, it boinlg l'll'ltl2l,V, his lux-lciost. day, Solslay hold a. t'tllll.l'I't'll4't' with Ivilll, l1is tirst mato, tllltl tlztossol, who Sllll'0'l'llll'0lltltt'tl tho unliading' of all prizos Zlllll lookod aftor tho t'tb'lIlllllS2l,l'LV dtopartiuoilt. 'l'hoy dovidod that. it XV0llltl bo bost to l t'lIl'lllll whoro thoy wrro until tho fog should lift, but. thoy also dot-idod that it would bo woll to do somo hunting aml U'XIi'ltil'lllQQ ashore if thi-y had to roinaiu lllllgtll' lllilll a wook. At lll-ltllllgjlll tho llIll'XlN't'lPtl liapptoiiod. A slight NVll1tl b1'o11gggl1t the stars i11to viow, and as soon as l'arldio, who had this watvh, had rom- inuniu-atod tho 111-ws to his two 4-oinpanions, tho 1-row of somlo forty-tivo mon woro told to bo roady for Zlll oarly start. By daybroak tho XVllltl had fl'9Sllt'll't'tl Zllltl was blowing' a good bnoozo from tho southoast. 'I'ho HTlZZll', with most of hor vanvass sot, was woll out to soa by tivo o'vlo4-kg Zllltl savo for Solslcy on tho bridgo, Stool tho