Stadium High School - Tahoma Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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22 THE TAI-IOMA ??. l..ord! We had a great time, said Bilious, when asked about the trip he and three other savages had taken up l'lood's Canal the summer before. And cheap-why, we got nearly all our eats, chickens, and eggs and vegetables, you know, for nothing, or 'for the takingf if you want to call it that. .And we made more 'summer acquaintances' in those two Weeks than in all our lives before. All those farmers us or knew of us Say, it was great. up that Way knew before we gots thru. You see, there were four of us and we'd never been away together before, so the trip was full of sur- everybody. They called or 'Biliousf according to what I was doing'at the moment. Then there was 'Uselessi fhe pro- nounced it Ulyssesj, the 'Cherubf so called because of his unsophisticated and innocent expression when he ex- plained to the farmer why he was weeding his vegetable garden. And then there was F lossy, which needs no explanation. We had decided to let 'Uselessl run the 'Tin Lizzy' on account of the dexterity with which he cut the corners on 9th and Broadway in his Hudson, but when it came to the simple matter of starting that Evinrude, there was nothing doing. Useless started his Hudson by pulling a lever, and stop- ped it by pushing another one, and when anything else was required, he telephoned down to the garage for some one to come up and assist with the car. Flossy and the Cherub weren't any good at this either. The former had taken Physics from Tvlr. prises for me 'Cap' 33 .99 Post and was entirely too theoretical. and the latter was artistically inclined, so of course I had to start the thing. I had a hair pin that I used to wiggle around in the old engine and sometimes it went and sometimes it didn't. Mostly it didn't. Our morn- ing recreation was getting that engine in a good humor, and when that was accomplished, we had to let it go until it ran down itself, and it certainly landed us in some queer places. Well, we all met on the dock about 3 o'clock tha.t afternoon and started to load up the Tin Lizzy with our stuff and Useless' 'baggagef as it turned out to be. All I had was what I had on and some canned eats, a fountain pen and some stationery. The Cherub's chief possession was half a sack of spuds, which he clung to fondly, ignorant of the land of milk and honey which lay before us. Flossy had enough canned cream to supply the Day Nursery for a couple of months, and Useless deposited two huge U. S. mail sacks bulging over with bundles in the bow of the boat. l-le told me of cold roast beef his mother had cooked, olives and lots of trimmings. They' turned out later to be a regular Keystone Comedy or Barnum or Bailey side show. A 'LThere are more ways of loading a boat than you can think of, and be- lieve me, the four of us had all the combinations there were. It was half past five before we were ready to start, and then there was another half hour for tuning up the engine. I wiped it all out with a soft piece of rag torn from one of the mail sacks,

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