Hiram College - Spider Web Yearbook (Hiram, OH)

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mighty of valor, and all such as are swift as the roe upon the mountain, gather together where is to be found wood like unto that from the cedars of Lebanon. Behold, has not the ruler of the daughters said : Ye shall in nowise draw near unto the house of Bowler, save only on the second day of the week from the heat of the day until about the cool of the same? Go to now, let us build us an house that we may come into it with the daugh- ters of the land Whell it seemeth good to us. So in the night they built them an house and placed a lattice by the side thereof. And all the people departed, every man to his own place. And in the morning the house was seen by the sons and the daughters of the land, and they did rejoice. There was a day when the Howardite, the same is mighty with the brush and with all manner of paint, said to John the Yorkite: Come thou up to the house of Bowler, and to the fourth Hoof of the same, and behold the work of my hands. And while he was yet a-coming, the ruler of the house lifted up her voice and cried unto him, saying: CO1116 down straight- way, and depart out of the house of Bowler. But he hearkened not to her voice, but answered and said : I will not come down, neither will I depart from out the house. And when this was brought to the ears of Ely the Zollarsite, he was exceeding wroth. And he called for the Yorkite, and said: Thou shalt cry for mercy unto the ruler of the daughters of my people, or thou shalt depart out of my land. But the Yorkite said : May the men of the land do so unto me, and more also, if I at all cry unto her for mercy. And the Yorkite went out from the presence of the king, and the king's wrath was appeased, and the Yorkite abode in his land. And about this time it came to pass that the ruler of the daughters of the land gathered them together and opened her mouth and taught them,

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pleased with her. Therefore took they counsel one with another how that they might reward her. Then bound she upon them burdens grievous to be borne, and made for them laws which neither they themselves nor yet their mothers were willing that they should bear. And she sent forth a decree unto the men of the land, saying: Come not nigh unto the house of Bowler or to the daughters of the land save only on the second day of the week from the heat of the day until about the hour of the cool of the day. Then were the sons of the land exceeding wroth and took counsel how they might be avenged, And in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month the men of the land said: Go to now, let us gather together with one accord and make a joyful noise before the house of Bowler. And it came to pass about the end of the first watch of the night that all Hiram played before the house of Bowler with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals fthe same were tin pansl, and with trumpets. And it was so that she who was ruler of the daughters of the land looked out at a window and saw all Hiram dancing and playing: and she despised them in her heart. And on the sixteenth day of the same month in the night the ruler of the daughters of the land slept from evening until the rising of the sun. And lo, when she awoke her room was darkened and she could not behold the light of day. For in the night while she slept certain sons of Belial had annointed her windows with paint from the top of the same even unto the bottom. And the men waxed greater and greater. And they said one to an- other: At the ending of the first watch of this night let every young man 21

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saying: Let no man salute thee, neither let him kiss thee, for behold, I was you11g and now am I old, yet have I been saluted by no man save only him who has been gathered unto his fathers. Therefore went this saying abroad: He who kissed her who is ruler of the daughters of Hiram was, and is not. And when it came to the ears of the men of the land, they marveled not that it was so. Then came Helen which had been ruler in the house of Bowler, whom a certain one had taken to wife, and abode certain days in the land. And she and her two friends with her made a feast and sent unto the ruler ofthe daughters of the land, saying: Come and sup with us. But her countenance fell, and she went into her chamber heavy and displeased, for she liked not her who had been ruler before her. And she laid her down upon her bed, and turned away her face and would eat no bread. And as for all the Wonderful deeds of this ruler of the daughters of Hiram, and all the words of wisdom which she spoke, and all the troubles that arose in the land because of her, which are 11ot recorded in this book, behold, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Hiram ? 23