Boyden High School - Echo Yearbook (Salisbury, NC)

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'Twas an awful sight. Claimed both were right A On taking the prisoner away. King: Consider your 'verdict. Herald: Not yet, not yet. There's a great deal to come before that. King: Call -the first witness. Herald: fBlows three bilastsj First witness. Hatter: fEnters carrying tea cup and piece of bread and butterj I beg pardon, your majesty, for -bringing these in, but I hadn't quite finished my tea when I was sent for. King: You ought to have finished. When did you begin? l Hatter: Fourteenth of March, I think it was. Tweedle Dee: Fifteenth. Tweedle Dum: Sixteenth. A King: QTO juryj Write that. QTO Hatterj Take off your hat. Hatter: It isn't mine. King: Stolen? Hatter: I keep them to sell. I've more of my own. Ilm a hatter.. King: Give your evidence' and don't be nervous or I'll have you executed on the spot. ' Hatter: fTre,mbilingj I'm a poor old lman, your majesty, and I hadn't but just begun .my 'tea-not above a week or so--and what with the bread and but- ter getting so thin-and the twinkling of the tea. King: The twinkling of what? Q Hatter: It 'began with the tea. King: Of course twinkling begins with UT . Do you take me for a dunce? Go on. Hatter: I'm a poor man, your majesty. King: You're a very poor speaker. Hatter: While drinking my tea, I was most rudely interrupted by a stupid quar- rel of the two Knights. After that I cut some more bread and butter, and I canft remember any more. King: If that's all you know about it, you may go. Queen: And outside, just -take off his head. King: QTO knightsj You :both observed the rules of battle, of course? fCon- ,fusion heard. King and Queen and Duchess with baby are dragged in RJ - Order, order! Why this interruption? XVho are these people? 1 Guard: King and Queen of Chess. 2 Guard: Duchess. King: Why are -dhey brought Ihere? 1 Guard: They refused to pay their taxes. Queen: Off with 'their -heads! Herald: Wait, a trial there- must be. King: Very well. King and Queen of Chess, why don't you pay your taxes? Queen of Chess: We are too busy playing around. King of Chess: We have no money, your majesty. Tweedle Dee: They drive a swell car. Tweedle Duqrnz They wear fine clothes. King: And you have a fine time, giving parties all the time. Queen: Off with their heads! Herald: The Duchess. King: Duchess, why :haven't you paid your taxes? Duchess: I -must save -my imoney. I have to think of the fuiture. Sonney boy will soon fbe dld enough to go to school and I must be able' to send him. Tweedle Dee: If she doesn't pay her taxes, there won't be any school to go to. Tweedle Dum: Some folks are so dumb they don't think it takes taxes to run Aa school. Queen: Off with her -head! fConfusionj ' Senior enters noisily through the tunnel. King: flndignantlyj What do you mean by interrupting this trial? Who are you? ' E291

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l Senior In Wondenlnnn' ,z,,g-. PROLOGUE Hark ye! List the while I ponder, Over happenings here and yonder, In that -mystic wonder dream land Tha-t exists here by your door. I can hear those magic voices, A Alice's, and all her 'toyses, And t-he longing quite o'erwhelms me To review this scene once more. Could you go with me this hour? It is quite within my power To transport you to the court-scene In this Wonderland below. just forget your cares and troubles, Life is one grand bowl of bubbles- QThat's authentic-Alice told me- And I guess it must 'be so.j No, the queen won't take your head off, Nor the March Hare make you get off- They've at least some good about them- Southern hospitality. Hear 'the rabbit call each witness, See 'the king in all his fitness Utter judgment, pound for order. Who can show this? I've the key! Please to note their crazy costumes., From the rocking-horse to mushrooms, And your worthy class officials- Seniors, there's your chance to laugh! Spa-re them naught, -they've learned to As for fact-they shall not fake it, And these Woiiderlandic creatures Live so near along the path. Everything is topsy-turvy, i Don't forget you're still a kid, CT was not so very long ago., 'Come with me to fun and nonsense, take itg i ' 'T will not cost you e'en a twopence, ,J 1 :11o?g.f5'1-!w:a1'1lLs.' , , - Aft 31,-1-jff.-.', Shall we hasten. Are you with me? -1-4, if' wg'-ur -,tt Q- pf . , 4: , . Coming, Wondeifland-Lets go! 7 vw- bv' 3, , 5 LffiT.f:'2T-Q li 1-iwiisga-' -,W 'Kj::a5jHi 1' I ' i.,lflQjL-f . Scen,e: NVonderland. The King and Queen of Hearts are sitting on a raised plat . - '. -gui' T51 A. C-1'-5 1 , , . . . I . . gg.-.ft-yn'-1355 fbrm center. 'Clerk s table is below. At ri ht is ur box, left is lace for de ' A X Al .,f-3 l: . ltr 3 S J Y P ,gq'Y fpix if endants and witness. J new I: f. ffl ld: 1934 A! fQTwo guards bring in :the red and white Knights and stand at attention before jgyjj 1 WM the throne.j fll King: Herald, :read the accusation. Herald: fBlows three blasts, unrolls scrollj The red and white knights Both had a fight Alll on a summer's dayg l23l

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Senior: I? I am Senior, representing the class of '33 of Boyden H-igh School. King: Well? What are you doing here? . Senior: I have just 'finished High School and started on a journey of conquest when by accident I stumbled into a :hole and ffell down, down, down. Queen: flnterrupting loudlyj Off wi-th his head! Senior: Qfirightenedj Such a journey I've never made. It seemed- as if I were falling down a very deep welll and I thought I'd never stop, when bang I fell amongst you. . Queen: flnterruptingj Off with his head! Senior: It was a terrible journey, but I was not afraid. I love,ro fight and I will obtain much. . .Q King: fRising and facing juryj Wfhat shall we do with such a radical? A man with such a fighting nature as this should suffer. Queen: flnterruptingj Off with his head! Jury: Un c-horusj Off with his head! fSenior cowers in the center of the stagej Herald: fAdvancing to frontj No! A trial there :must beg. Of his deeds on earth we cannot sceg Maybe some were good and some were bad, But we cannot kill this lad -For-I A trial there must beg 4 A trial there must beg Hi, Ho, the merry O A trial there .must be. King: Very well then, .a trial -there shall be. Prepare the evidence. fConfusionj Order, Order, proceed with the trial. Call the first witness. Herald: fSwears in Miss I-Iistorianj - Miss Historian, do you on honor swear, the truth to tell, or bear the conse- quences 't-hat result from falsehoods -that invoke insults? Historian: fRepeats oathj I Herald: Whalt can you say of Senior's early days? Historian: The Freshmen entered B. H. S. one hundred and seventy-five strong., and dhose at 'the first of their career an 'able man, Elmer Hoke, to lead' them. Caterpillar: Yes, Elmer was a great ole boy and we in Vfonderland greatly ad- 'mired him but just look at the influence of his leadership on the various mem- bers of the class. Frog: Wliy, yes, the nmost outstanding event of the early winter was the Eng- lish theme Written by their most promising author-Bill Cashwell. It read: A geese is a low, heavy set boid which is mostly -meet and feathers. His 'head sits on one end and he siits on the odher. A geese can t sing :much on account of dampness of the .moisture. He ain't got no between-his-toes, and -he's got a ilittle balloon on his stomach to keep him from sinking. Some geeses when they 'gets big has cu-rls on their tales and is called ganders. Ganders don'.t haff to sit and hatch, but just eat and loaf, and go swimmin'. If I was 'il goose, I'd rather be a gander. ' Historian: However, you must remember that finally these babes in the Wood finished their Freshman year with flying colors. Frog: Oh. yeah? Historian: Yes, in one last romlp. They won field day from the upper classmen. Caterpillar: They may have been able to run fast on field day, but when it ca-me to getting to class in a hurry, they were as slow as the Mock Turtle. Turtle: And you have to suffer for being slow. If the hours that the pupils stayed in for being tardy had been bricks, they could have added two new wings to B. H. S. - All: fApplaudj QSenior rebels and storms aroundj. King: Order, order in the court room. Herald: Order in the court room! Order! King: Order, order, order! U01