Phillips High School - Mirror Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

 - Class of 1937

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The Mirror OPTICAL ILLUSION The scantily clad urchin shrugged his narrow shoulders as he turned reluctantly from the window filled with steaming food. He looked up just in time to prevent colliding with a neatly dressed young man, who had sympathetically witnessed the scene. The young man laying his hand on the lad’s shoulder smiled down at him. With a word of reassurance, he presented the boy with a hill, and waved aside the youth’s attempted thanks as he turned to walk briskly away. Following the neat young man down the street we notice him applying for work, for this particular young man happened to be one of those unfortunate men, the unemployed. The truth was, he was in urgent need of funds after he had so generously given the boy his last dollar. At night “the hungry-looking urchin” was seen in a group of flashily dressed pale-faced youths, each bragging of his shady accomplishments of the day. The “ex-urchin's” character and profession was revealed in his own words, “Shucks, youse guys are pikers! I got a good racket that drags in at least ten bucks a day.” (More paragraphs follow soon—when Justice rights some wrongs, and balances this unbalanced story.) —James Gibson THE OLD MILL A small boy trudged wearily up the path to the old grist mill; on his back was a sack of corn nearly as large as he. Reaching the porch he let the sack of corn fall on the ground beside him. Then he sat down and placed his chin in his hands — seemingly deep in thought. He was interrupted at last by the miller, a man of about middle age, who came out on the porch. “Well, son, said the miller, “got more corn today? Seems like it was only day before yesterday that 1 ground a sack for you.” Paying no attention to the miller's words ihe small boy looked up to say, “You know, Mr. Jack, some day when 1 grow up 1 am going to the city and live where I won’t have to earn corn to the mill every few days.” “Now, son. you are too young to be getting foolish notions in your head. Look at me, I have lived here all my life, nearly fifty years: and, according to most folks, I have done pretty well. Better give up that idea.” The miller picked up the corn and went inside. When he returned the boy had not moved. Finally, the boy got up, slung the meal over his back and started down the path. After taking a few steps he turned around and said, “You wait, some day 1 am going to the city to live.” Twenty years have elapsed since that day, but, as we look into the old mill we find the same old man, only he is older with gray hair and long white whiskers. When he comes out and sits down on the old rickety steps in the warm sunlight, he dozes; and in his dreams he goes back twenty years to the day when a small boy had told him, “Some day I’m going to the citv to live.” [10]

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