Eugene High School - Eugenean Yearbook (Eugene, OR)

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I4 E ' '- if S54 '- 05' W I . iff ' -I Page I Qu- z J ., -sa 1: ' .i w MII: If 51181 'IC Ticienfy-tivo ' O1'C'g01l he rong acon OOIQ here you fellows' if you want to get to work on time tomorrow, don't fail to kick me out when you hear that clock. If , S I tlnngs stirring on time. I am Going to cook for this gang I want This didn't have much effect on the two chaps to whom I was speaking, for all each did was just grunt. But l thought I knew what I was saying. so I wound the clock up to the last notch and set the alarm at four o'clock. For once I was going to show those boys that I was an early riser. Three other boys and myself had been camp- ing out and working for some little time, and this incident, which I am about to describe, was one of our many experiences, Que of the boys, how- ever, was away at the time this accident occurred. XVell, hurry up and douse the glim, sput- tered some one from under the bed covers. I'm sleepy. , I doused the glim, as we termed it, and went scrambling and feeling for the bed, when-Ouch! I broke my toe against that post, and hopping on one foot I stumbled and fell on to the bed. It's too bad you can't get in bed like you were civilized, growled Iieopke. Yes, and this hill I am sleeping on keeps me sliding all over the tent, I don't like your fir bough bed, spoke out jesse Black. If you fellows don't like it. you can lump it. I answered, and at the same time I was feeling for a decent place to sleep on. But sleep was out of the question for a while, XVe made up our bed about three times, and every one of us had to fight for covers. At last we settled down and went to sleep. There was nothing to break the silence but the moaning of the wind through the trees, and our snores. But nothing more was needed. Wie were enough to wake the dead. The next morning I heard a loud alarm bell under my ear and on opening my eyes I saw that I was crosswise the bed, and Keopke-well he had taken a blanket and crawled off by himself. jesse Black was huddled up on a pillow in one corner of the tent. I glanced at the clock-five o'clock and no mistake. I rubbed my eyes and looked again. Hjxlll I bughouse F I said to myself. I got up and examined that clock. That cer- tainly is five o'clock, and I'd swear I set it at four,', I said. Gee Crickets! fellows, crawl out. Here it is, five o'clock and I thought I set that crazy- Now laugh, will you? IVhat is wrong with you guys anyway PM Ch, nothing,'I said Black, you look so funnyfy He said I looked funny because he had noth- ing else to say, and I made up my mind that one of them had changed that alarm. There was something wrong or they wouldn't have laughed so hard. XVhile I was working with breakfast, jesse took his fishing rod and went fishing in spite of my protests. He knew he cOuldn't catch any fish but he went because I didn't want him to. That was the way they both did, and if I said, two and two equals four,'I they would say it made six. After a few minutes everything was running smoothly around camp with the exception of Pat He spent his spare time putting soap or butter or something else into the coffee pot or mixing salt with sugar. That is the way he al- ways did when he had nothing else to do. so I asked him to fry the bacon. I had learned enough to keep him busy. The bacon seemed to be unusually greasy and a large amount of grease was in the frying pan. Pat took the pan and held it over the fire as I had been doing, while I went into the tent after some eggs. I turned around just in time to see the grease in the pan catch on fire. Pat jerked the pan out and started to blow out the flame, then he stood up straight and turned as white as a sheet and began to breathe quick short breaths. Then all at once he let a yell out 'of him that shook the very tree tops, and whirling the pan around his head, he threw it at a tree, and started to run and dance. Qf all the Indian war dances ever heard of, his could not be beaten. He kicked

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, :K-1-.-A. U. I, .ij 'L ' 1 4- , 4 1,1 1 ,Q ' Page ' fir - 3 f 'Ein e .g f ,C ' q Eiegcm Q :AQ-A,fz,,f,- j Fw,-1,11 ,,-fa ...-f1a'.'yt ' .4 --f,-.mi x ..aRei2'.24f f- i pf- '1 L - - O , 0 Twcrzzfy-fow 'f ' 756071 The Buried. Treasure ' ox ei on the in er just below the place where you shot your last coyote, said the in All XY, Tom! do you remember them rapids Zl1Q'. '6 L vy ' old sheep herder to his younger compan- ion after they had settled the sheep for the night and as they lay by their camp fire. l think l do, replied Tom. XVell, does it look to you like them rapids could have been falls once. Not that l knows of. XVhy? XYell they once was, and tonight I got to thinkin' about a experience I had when they was. Can you remember when they were falls FU asked Tom incredulously. I dunno but what l can. They was the prettiest falls l've ever seen. They was about ten feet high and the water fell in one straight sheet clean across the river without a single break, avowed the old man. But how about your experience ? It certainly was some experience, said the old man preparing himself for a yarn by filling his pipe and finding a more comfortable posi- tion. It was back in the early fifties and I was doin' some prospectin, up on the -- river. There was some gold on the -- river then and I had come there with a feller named jud Splan- dern. Funny name, ain't it, and he was just as funny as his name. He said he was a English- man. I guess he was sort of a Quaker because he didn't believe in guns and tried to make me do away with mine. I had a good old gun then. I could stand fifty yards away and hit a nail on the head with it every time, and i- But what about the falls. XVell, me and him was campin' just below the falls about a half mile. lVe had been there about three weeks and we had been getting quite a bit of gold. Une afternoon, I think it was Friday. we had had poor luck and so we quit work about two hours before sundown and came up from the river. Splandern set at makin' some biscits for supper. He was some cook and he sure could eat as well as cook. I guess that was why he was so fat. XVell, I went down to the river for some water when all at once l heard a whoop and I turned around in time to see Splandern shot through by an arrow from a bunch of lnjuns who had just come from behind a bunch of jack pines, .Xs soon as they saw me they came running down towards the river. They didn't have horses because hors- es were kind of scarce those days but they could run like greased lightninf I tried to keep them away by shootin' at them with my pistol but I found I couldn't load fast enough so I started runnin'. I ran and the Injuns ran after. They had started me upstream because the shore was open clear up to the cliff by the falls and they thought they could corner me there more easier. XVell, I ran and ran CI certainly was glad I wasnot as fat as Splandernj, the falls growing closer ln' closer. I didn't have any plans or ideas of how to escape and finally they had me almost to the cliff. All to onct I hit on a idea. Ild been told that lots of times there is a hollow place behind the sheet of water. I thought that I couldn't escape no other way I might as well try to get behind the falls as be killed by the Injuns. The falls fell right down alongside the cliff but running out into the water in front of the falls about six feet was a rock. It was about four feet above the water. Taking a last look I ran out on the rock and jumped right into the falls. Next thing I knew I was sprawling on the damp rocky floor of a sort of cave. There was such aroarinl that I don't think I could have heard a cannon go off. After a little while it got dark and I went to sleep. XVhen I woke up it was sort of half light. I was hungry and still stiff from myqrun. The cave where I was in was almost high enough so I could stand up and it seemed to run all the way under the falls. I started to explore it and found that it had nothiul in it and the farther back from the water the lower the top of it got. -Xll the time l was hungrier and hungrier and I couldn't find no way to get out. At last I thought I would go out the way I come in. It happened that the water was thinner there than any other place. I