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

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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

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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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June 1, 1957 THE couposirrows Fact Tm: SB CLASS My little kitten is always get ting into mischief. One day when mother was gone my kitten got in- to the cupboard and spilled the flour, and sugar, and broke some dishes, When mother get home she caught him lapping up milk he had spilt. When he sees somebody com- ing down the street, he hides be- hind a tree. When they pass he runs out and makes queer sounds. Keith Batdorf My little kitten is always get ting into mischief. One day Betty and I were playing house. After a while we heard a bang. Guess what my little kitten was doing. He was on the table and had bro- ken mother's best vase. Rose Mary Walden The evening was lovely for a trip on the lake. The moon shone very brightly. The stars looked just like diamonds twinkling.When the moon shone on the lake it was like floating gold. As it grew darker, it looked like a world of gold and rippling silk. Elaine Fredrick Jim and Polly had ing a garden. Their gone. They found a were digging. Their UThat is your reward much fun mak dog dug up a dime as they mother said, for working so hard.W Jim and Polly knew that their flowers and vegetables would be rewards, too. Alvin Haley My dog did not believe in mind ing his own business. He had a habit of frightening every dog he met. One day he was playing out in the yard, when a little puppy came along. Buster did not see the mother dog behind him and be- fore he could touch the puppy the mother dog was on him. Since then he has never tried to frighten a dog. Dick Paul, SB My dog does not believe in- safety first. He has very good ears, but he never uses them. My dog chases motor-cycles. He runs across the street. I think he should come to hear a safety talk He runs under parked ears, and sometimes the cars start up. LaVon Hayner, 5B My little black kitten is al- ways getting into mischief. One day when we went away, Tuffy plan ned to do some mischief while we were gone. So when we went out the door she jumped on the ea- binet. We had forgotten to close the cabinet doors. She jumped up on the flour can and it came down on her pell-mell.When we got home she was white instead of black. She was punished by getting a bath. Nigel Brown, 5B I WONDER One night as I lay in bed a fui ny little man climbed through mye window. He told me not to be a- friad. He put a pair of wings on my back'andfto my surprise I flew out the window. The earth got far ther and farther away. At last as it was almost out of sight I saw something ahead. I discovered it was the moon.When we landed I was surrounded by a group of tiny people. Although they were small, some of them were over eighty years old. I wondered where they lived. Soon I was led into a house which was just a hole in the ground. To my surprise it was very modern. I picked up a maga- zine, the Moon Journal. It said- the tallest man on record was five feet eleven inches tall. After a meal of air I wanted to go home. Soon I was flying out in to space. My wings came off and I landed with a bang. When I came to I was lying on the floor be- side my bed. Was it a dream? I think so. John Gumpper,8B