Crescent Heights High School - Bugle Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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30 THE CRESCENT BUGLE, 1928 A LESSON FROM EXAMPLE Said the little red rooster, “Gosh all Hemlock things are tough Seems that worms are getting scarcer and I cannot find enough, What’s become of all those fat ones is a mystery to me, There were thousands through the rainy spell—now where can they be?” The old black hen who heard him didn’t grumble or complain, She had lived through dry spells and also floods of rain, So she flew up on the grindstone and she gave her claws a whet As she said, “I’ve never seen the time when there wasn’t worms to get.” She chose a new and undug spot; the earth was hard and firm. “New ground,” the little rooster jeered, “That’s no place for a worm,” The old black hen no answer made, her claws flew fast and free, “I must go to the worms,” she said, “the worms won’t come to me.” The little red rooster spent the day, through habit, by the ways Where worms had passed in thousands throughout the rainy days. When nightfall found him supperless, he growled in accents rough: “I’m as hungry as a fowl can be. Conditions sure are tough.” Then he turned to the old black hen and said, “It’s worse with you, For you’re not only hungry, but you must be tired too; I rested while I looked for worms, so I feel fairly perk; But how about you? without worms too—and after all that work?” The old black hen hopped to her perch and closed her eyes to sleep, And murmured drowsily, “Young man, hear me and weep— I’m as full of worms as I can be, I’ve dined both long and well. The worms are there as always—but I had to dig like?- !” Oh here and there red roosters are going now to school, They cannot do much homework now because they have no pull, But soon as these exams are past, they’ll start in strong and firm. Meanwhile the old black hens are gobbling every worm. H 2 0—XB.

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32 THE CRESCENT BUGLE, 1928