Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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14 HYAK got catched in a turible storm. There was lightnin’ and thunder and I wuz scared stiff. All of a sudden a bolt of lightnin struck the ship and as she capsized I felt myself falling, falling and landed with an awful bump. I opened my eyes and found that I had fallen out of bed ; that I was in my own little room, and that my trip to New York was nothing but a dream. CELESTE DORR, ’13. CHRONICLES XXIII. Q OW when the sun had gone down, a deep sleep fell upon the Seniors, and lo, an horror of great darkness came upon them. And it came to pass that in the selfsame hour, rose Rebecca and Edna from the initiated house of the tribe of Juniors. And they straightway went to the door of the house of Seniors, and the Seniors lifted up their eyes and looked, and lo, two persons stood by them, and even as they looked Edna and Rebecca of the initiated house of the tribe of Juniors spoke: “Behold, the hour cometh, and now is, when there shall be a sign in the heavens even as foretold by the prophet Halley, ‘Go ye up and gaze skyward and your sight shall be filled.’ ” And they cried aloud and left their beds and hastened to an upper window. And they gazed steadfastly up to heaven, but no sign appeared unto them. But Harriet, daughter of Andrews, came last of all, having tarried by the way, and she spake unto them saying, “Why stand ye still gazing? It may be that we have mistaken the window. Come now and let us search the sky from other parts of the house; know ye of a truth in what quarter of the sky the sign shall appear?” Then spake Edna to Rebecca, “I will go up now and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come from us, and if not, we will know.” And when she had returned from doing this, she cried, “Rebecca, the Seniors be upon thee!” and they both straightway retreated into the annex. Then Rebecca rent her garments and cried, “Would that we had died in initiation.” And it came to pass that the Seniors returned from vain searching of the sky after forty minutes and there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, for Rebecca and Edna were wicked, in the eyes of the Seniors. Then spake Rebecca and Edna, “Is not the whole building before thee? separate thyselves, we pray thee, from us; if thou wilt take the left hand, then will we go to the right; or if thou go to the right hand, then

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H Y A K 13 between Los Angeles and Chicago. It was goin’ about eighty-five miles an hour. When we arrived in New York, we landed on the hundred and twenty-first story of the Metropolitan Trust building, which was by no means the highest in New York, as the new Singer building was a hundred and ninety-six stories high. We got into the elevator and went down to the ground floor. Then we walked about the streets for a time and seen all the sights. As we was hungry, Uncle Joe took me to Del Ralicoes. Gosh ! but it were the swellest place I ever seen, and I guess it were the swellest eating house in town. While we was a-eatin’ one of them there pesky furriners come in. Uncle Joe said that that thar furriner was a count something-or-other and that he were a-goin’ to marry one of the Vanderhall girls and didn’t he think he was jest it. Gosh ! but he thought he was swell. After a-gazin’ around for a while, Uncle Joe ordered the lunch and all of them thar edible things was served by electricity. I never seen that done afore and it was kinder spooky-like to see them things come and go and nobody a-doin‘ it. After lunch Uncle Joe asked me what I wanted to do. I says, says 1, 44 1 want to go and see a show.” “I’ll take you to the Pipadrome,” says he. As there was a little time before the show commenced we walked around the streets and seen some more sights; then we went to the show. Gosh, but it was huge, the stage revolved arounct on a pivot so that thar were no wait between scenes, and the play. Gosh! it was great! After we got out of that thar place there wuz about an hour before dinner so my uncle, he says, says he, “How’ed ye like to take a little trip in the machine afore dinner?” “You bet your boots I would,” says I. We went up in a balloon to the top of the building where the machine was hitched. My uncle unfastened it and off we started. He asked me where I wanted to go. I says that I didn’t care, so he says: “Bub. how’ed ye like to go to England fur a little trip?” I says, “Sure.” So we got into the machine and jest skimmed over the water like a big bird. We flew over England, watched the aeroplane races for a while and then returned to New York. Being hungry, my uncle took me to the Out Rageous Hotel for dinner. It sure was great ; there were fifteen courses, but it takes too long to describe them so I won’t try, and the price, never mind! After that my uncle says it was time to go home and I sure was awful sorry to go, as I had had such a beautiful time and such dreadful good things to eat, but he said we must so we got into the machine again and back we started. When we had gotten about half wa y, we

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HYAK 15 wilt we depart to the left, for the congregation of naughty men seek after our souls, and we are sore distressed.” And it came to pass that all the congregation of the Seniors lifted lip their voices and cried: And the people wept that night. The rose up Ethel, daughter of Levin of the tribe of the Seniors, and her follower, Neva, of the tribe of Sophomores, and they sought Edna and Rebecca, and they found Edna fleeing into the annex, and found Rebecca at the sink. And they retreated farther into the annex, and even the electric lights stood still for them. Then Rebecca and Edna sought refuge in a practice room and Ethel and her follower Neva re- lumed to their tents. And Rebecca and Edna hied them away from the wrath of the Seniors into the house of Laura, one from the tribe of Seniors, and she was their shield and protetcor. And they said, ‘‘Blessed shall this woman be of all Seniors, for she hath saved our lives.” And lo, a deep sleep fell again upon the Seniors, for they were weary, and peace reigned in the house of Annie. Selah. EDNA ROACH, 11.