Harrison Hill Middle School - Beacon Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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June l, 1957 THE BEACON Page 5 mm i sa - THE PUPPY AND THE YO-YO TRUE HAPPINESS What is that green and black thing that keeps bobbing up and down from the end of that string? It certainly isn't any,kind of a dog and it certainly isn't alive, yet it keeps bobbing up and down. I think I'll bark fiercely so it won't hurt anybody. Woof! Woof! Yippie!now I've broken the string Now it won't keep bothering me.OH dear, I guess Joan didn't like that, now I have to go to bed.I'm a very disappointed pooch, but I got rid of that green and black thing! Lois Bailey, GA THE LOST NEWT One morning Miss La France looked in the terrarium. The newt was not there. She looked under the moss. The newt was not there. She looked under the pan.The newt was not there. Miss La France ran to Miss Gross. She said, UOh,Miss Cross! The newt is lost.n Miss Gross said, WOh, Oh, The newt is lost.N Miss Gross ran to look for the newt. She looked under the pan moss. She looked under the Then she looked on the floor. She said, HOh, Oh, here is the He crawled out of his home.0 By Class of lB's newt PIONEERS Pioneers did not live like we do. They did not have as many books. One family had a school- book besides the Bible. The first book was a spelling book. Their books did not have pretty pic- tures like we have in our books. Billy Kay Trier, BB The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes but in liking what one does. When John was a boy his father advised him to take piano lessons. He said that after years of ,hard study John would give happiness to oth- ers and eventually to himself. Jim's father told Jim the same. John was an indifferent boy and decided at once it would be too hard to spend years at a musical instrument.He wanted only to play the harmonica. His spirit killed the idea at once. Jim was differ- ent. He decided to make himself like the piano. He knew achieve- ment is g1ory.Jim spent two years at one college and three years at another studying music. Jim is now a musical personality while John is an ordinary man noted for practically nothing. Louis Hallenstein, 8A THE STOP SIGN I am a stop sign.USTOPHis writ ten on my nice, yellow coat in big, red, letters. To many people I am a great help but to others, just a bore. One day a goof Cas they call them in the schoolsl saw me but didn't do what the red letters told him. Instead, he kept right on going. Another car was coming. The goof saw it. The goof steered his ear a little to the left. He didn't run into the other car but he did run into my friend Mr. Telephone Pole. Poor I guess he Mr. Telephone Pole. was pretty badly hurt.Those goofs especially sure make me angry, when they hurt my friends. Ruthann Sticgler, 7A

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page 5 THE BEACON June 1, 1957 MY EXPERIENCE AS A BOOKWORM Well, what do you know,Volune One isn't here! Oh well, I'll just go on to Volume Two. Hm, here I've landed in Cape God. A queer peninsula, I hear, it is a long, narrow, L - shaped strip of low, sandy, land, being about sixty-five miles in length, and from two to ten miles in width. I guess it raises quite a few oranberries. Oh! How I'm over to see my good friend, Lewis Carroll. He was the writer of Alice in Won- derland. Dear me, I just can't tell you all my experiences, but I will tell you a few. Now I'm over to the Caspian Sea. It says here that it is sur rounded by Russian Territory on three sides with Persia on the south. Qnere water is deepest it is salt water. How if I can get my spectacles in place I can toll you that I'm visiting a French writer, Denis Diderot. Well I might be taking too much of your time so I'll go through Volumes Three and Four to Volume Five. From a distance I can scc I'm nearing Nevada, the Sagebrush State. The population is eighty thousand. I must hurry. ' Now I'm face to face with- James Oglethorpe. He was the founder of Georgia. He settled Savannah in seven-teen thirty- three. Well I'm on my last lap of one set of books. I'm sailing down the Yangtze River in China. It certainly tells some queer things. It says that the river steamboats are the largest river boats in the world. I can see that now I am finish ed I have learned more than I have in a long time. I believe that books are keys to wisdom's treasures and compan- ions when friends are doubtful. Hallie Belle Hire, 7A A CIRCUS HORSE My life as a circus horse is very exciting. It is so much fun to go prancing around in a circle Jumping through a hoop and having a pretty little midget land on my back is wonderful. When they put sparkling, bright blankets on me and tall bright feathers on my head, I love to parade before the people. It is so thrilling to see all the girls and boys and hear the harkers selling pink lemonade and balloons. Glessna Oppenlander, GB THE OOOPED UP LION I hate being oooped up in a cage. I hate to have people star- ing at mc and saying what a fine ruff I have. I do not like to eat the sets kind of meat every day. I want tc he in the jungle where I can get my own food. The cage I am in is so small that all I can do is turn around, lie down and stand up. I do not like the tiger that is in the cage next to mine because he is always roaring at night. I never get my sleep. Donald Thacker, 6B THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN CHEESE Percy and MinnieMouse had just learned from their postmaster, Jasper Rat,a tall muscular bully, that they had just inherited a fortune of cheese from their grandpappy, Hyman Mouse. Percy and Minnie also learned that they would have to encounter many traps and different kinds of dan- gers before getting their for- tunes. Finally after several hard at- tempts in the Widow Jone's cellar they found their inheritance. It was a nice big, round, thick lim- burger cheese. Which from having set so long it had a delight- ful odor. Alene Loeser,8B