Great Falls High School - Roundup Yearbook (Great Falls, MT)

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ROUNDUP 19 [f you ever had physics and imagine Finding an airship I boarded the car the least. nc started her out headed straight An airship I built with this metal f or a s t a r. . , , , , , ,, But the sound of her engine as it ] x lore ' ' S t0 s P uttered and cracked Into thTeast I glided with ease, Made the Mar § uards think their Til! as a bird that floats in the breeze world was attack ed- I was headed for Mars at a quite rap- M - v time was short an d the course id pace was lon 8 ' And soon came in view of that wonder- And I knew that my life would go ful place. for a song. Their glass covered mansions re- The run that we had that night fleeted the light Was sure some wonderful sight, And palaces and towers, oh, such a But weary at last they returned to sight! their kind But best of all was the airships that To tell their friends how I left them sailed behind. And dodged and darted and dipped The purr of my motor was all that and scaled, was heard Some drifting slow for pleasure and As I floated and dipped, a huge hu- glee, man bird. Others in a hurry on business you But I wasn ' t much grieved, ' tis see. strange to say But ere I got near my airship they The formula I used had been taken spied. away. And toward me a bunch of young- Now as I came into sight of this sters soon hied. earth My big awkward ship made them all My heart overflowing with joy and laugh with glee mirth. When they gathered close ' round to A sudden thing happened much to my investigate me. dread But soon the guard came and stopped A huge glowing comet flashed over the fun, my head. And put me in a cellar far away from I waited but a second, then jumped, the sun. For the ship and the comet were go- These men were giants full seven feet ing to bump. high, I knew it was dangerous to fall from To struggle was impossible and fool- so high ish to try. But ' twas my chance, so I drew a But realizing that 1 was in a terrible deep sigh scrape And tumbled and fell, oh, ever so fast I set out to think of a plan to escape. Knowing I would land upon some- That night in the dark, I crawled thing at last. through the bars, But the biggest surprise I ever did And again I was free to look at the take stars. Was when I found out I had struck So I stealthily climbed to the top of Gibson Lake. the tower I see my friends all laughing at me, In the dead silence of this unearthly That ' s why I ' ve not told this before, hour. you see. — F. L.. ' 12.

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18 ROUNDUP Miss Liessmann. who teaches us Another one ' s name is Miss Racine. Dutch, ( )f the things she teaches you ' ll Of the West she doesn ' t know much; dream; For she ' ll listen with awe, Physiology ' s lore, As grim pictures you draw And science galore. Of cowboys and Indians and such. Which is hard on the Freshman so green. Miss Harrison watches us all Miss Lamhie ' s as cute as can be, So we cannot cut up in the hall. For she ' s not very large, you see; • The things she don ' t see If they ' re all like her there, Are the one ' s that can ' t be; We send up a prayer. All this causes our gladness to pall. They ' ll send us some more such as she. Mr. Eastman who teaches us chem Air. Wiggin, who ' s the head of us all, Gets pretty mad now and then And walks with stern looks through If some noise we make the hall, Or some instrument break. Gives us his commands But he ' s over it e ' re you count ten. With a wave of his hands; From his mandates there is no recall. A Dream One day in the lab, funny, it may For I couldn ' t think why it flew to seem, the east. I got an idea, a real cute little scheme. I sat down to figure the how and the With nothing to do but to bluff why I set about collecting the stuff, And used all the rules we had learned, A little of this and a little of that but. )! my! All mixed together in a sort of a vat. How useless and foolish they all Now I needed a fire to boil it all seemed to be. down For useless they were you surely can So I started the lamps and watched see. with a frown. But 1 solved the problem that night Soon to my surprise and chagrin. in my sleep The stuff crystalized and ceased to And determined, that formula my l )e thin silence would keep Then a strange thing happened that For I had the key that would startle near got my goat the world This metal first danced then started A metal like glass, into space could be to float. hurled I grabbed with both hands and held As gravity didn ' t hold it of course it to it tight would fly But it dragged me to the window. For centrifugal motion would give it there flew out of sight a try Of course I was amazed and dumb- You readily can see now why it went founded at least east.

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1 « JK k 1 i w Jf r5S , m m ARTHUR WRIGHT Editor-in-Chief