Fort Madison High School - Madisonian Yearbook (Fort Madison, IA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES Tradmonal Ballads 07 THE BAG OF GOLD NORA M CLANCY There were two mel ry bonme lads And these two l'ldCl16Q bold Set out upon the1r chfmrgers gfxy To find '1 bag of gold I ll take lt to my lass1e fa1r And from those bonme eyes of blue I ll ne 61 hue look so su eet Ill take It to my mother old And place It ln her hands So that she may not be so cold But l1ve 1n a house so grand And so these bonme ladd1es fought About that bag of gold And all that fightmg came to naught For they l1e ln thelr graves so cold I v 1 . C 9 t c Q l Q l c c , C 4 cc v - ,- ' .. , And place it at her feet, Av ' , s 1 , C , y in if 7 ' ! K9 7 ' ' Y! ! 9

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES 'xt tlmes I now reahzed that we xvere go1ng to take part m a naval battle At fn st I thought of escapxng then I began to wonder whom the captaln would hght for Suddenly a sh1p broke 1nto flames and I could clearly see the whole battle It appeared as tho the Ameucans were gett1ng the xvorst of lt Two large B11tlSh vessels wlth long range guns were firmg at the Amer1can vessels from a d1stance whlle several smaller vessels we1e engaged at close range We sfuled sw 1ftly ahead w1th no hghts Everythlng was qu1et on deck We xx e1e now headed for a po1nt d1rectly between the two Br1t1sh vessels My hopes began to smk for I thot we were going to take up a pos1t1on besxde these two xessels Suddenly I heard the capt'11n call fl om the brldge Let em have 1t boys' I could hardly c'xn1ster We had taken them by surprlse but before long shot began to fly everywhere My rlght leg began to feel funny and I must have famted for when I regamed consclousness I was lylng ln a bed on a dlfferent Shlp I heard a sa1lor say that we had xx hlpped the Br1t1sh all 11ght Then I heard a xolce that I 1ecogn1zed as that of the plrate captaxn say They called me a plrate but I was worklng for my count1y -xll the tlme The speaker stopped then and sald That s about all but I have never been able to hnd out who It was that the schooner was wa1t1ng for At th1s J1m arose and sald I w1ll end the story because you have ended one for me The captaln of th1s shlp was my father and he was xva1t1ng for me I had speclal messages from the government for h1m but I have never been able to find out whether my father was a plrate or not txll now The old sklpper sm1led slowly and sald I thought I saw the captam agam when you came through the door 9 - - 0- 1 .1 ' v . , , U . . I . . V V V V. . V. . ' c . ,, . V. V. . . . C ' a . . V V . V . ' , L ' 1 K ! ' . 1 c , , . keep from cheering as our guns raked their decks with grape and c l . c I ' , 1 y I . , . V . ! 7 , - a H C n ' 66 7 7 Y 77 . . . ,, V. 7 . V V ' ' 77 . . . ,, 7 ' ' 17

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THE HIGH SCHOOL TIMES THE FATE OF TWO KNIGHTS LP ILA HhNKLr There u ae a bonn1e kmght 'ao fan Who loved the queen of the land 'lhere wx 'N U1Otl1C1 kn1g,ht neu by Who loved the queen so f:,1'lI1Cl One thought to bung., hu gold eo bllght Brom out 1 folelgn land And 115, It at he1 feet eo QIT1 111 And thue to xx 1n he1 hind The othel thought to go to xx .ir And fight md conquer 11nd And through hm dauntleee braxelv To xx 1n he1 111y hand The one xx ent ffu 1n 9011 ch of gold Ah xes and that d1d he But e er the d-mn of many days He lay at the bottom of the se'1 The other fought qu1te bravely But vt hen the battle vxae o er HN body numbered yn 1th the slam And he returned ne er mole . w V w 1 J. Y . Y . . i 1, ., , 1 1 vck 2 1 ' r 2 Q v , 1 . A T l 0 xl jo 1' 7. K 1 . . 1 . ' a 1. ' ' . . E V. I 1 . 1 . 1 . v. . r. 1 , I y v 1 . T l 7 ' c . y . ' 1. , c 1 L , 7 v v y C Lo a Y ' , K 1 . V. . . 7 .