Horace Mann Lincoln High School - Lincolnian Yearbook (New York, NY)

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pounding on boards. The walls resounded with the noise. After the final rehearsal and the last remark, 'We can't get it all done!W, the dwarfs performed for the younger dwarfs, the older dwarfs, and the parents of the dwarfs. Alas, this had some bad effects! Some of the dwarfs became conceited. The giants, jealous of the compliments paid to the dwarfs, piled on cave-work as never before. - Once more the dwarfs swarmed into a chamber labeled 'Engl1sh'. Here they wrote stories, essays, and Wnovelsu. After writing these things, the poor dwarfs had to read them to the class. Often the dwarfs would blush, stutter, and make foolish excuses before beginning to read. After the reading, the other dwarfs would jump on the composition like vultures on a fallen animal. They would criticize it and tear it apart. Sometimes, however, they liked it. Another thing everyone worked on was called Wgrammarn. This was confusing, for the giant used complicated terms which only a few of the dwarfs seemed to understand. Hence, sometimes the dwarfs would chorus WWhat do we have to know?' Anyway, most of the dwarfs enjoyed the writing part of English. - The dwarfs were forced into quite different chambers at twelve-fifteen o'clock, just when they were getting hungry. In one great dark chamber, the boy dwarfs busily tortured themselves in a variety of ways. At times they forced themselves up ropes and pulled on horizontal bars. At other times, they threw balls at each other and tried to place them in a basket, with a hole in the bottom, which was high above their heads. They fought each other with sticks shaped like the letter L Dwarfs at work Page 36

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Q75 Qwedk' Qfkmffza lvaad. Qmle Once there were forty-five dwarfs who spent their days in attendance upon a group of giants. The giants and dwarfs worked together in a five-story red brick cave adjacent to a wooded park. In this cave there were many chambers in which the dwarfs discovered how to do all manner of things. When they entered the cave in the morning, the dwarfs divided, each one going to his own chamber. Here their presence was carefully noted before they passed on tg other chambers. This process of moving from chamber to chamber went on throughout each day. In one chamber they were taught how to say strange works and to conjugate verbs. This was called NFrenchW. At first no dwarf knew oui from non and frequently a dwarf would mispronounce a word, sending the others into an uproar. HElle portera un cheveaux finstead of Nchapeaunj demain,N always made the giant chuckle unhappily and wonder if the dwarfs would ever learn to speak French. The next chamber was small and dark. There another giant sat in the corner, hunched over a pile of test papers. In her hand was a long red stick with which she was coloring the papers. On certain days, the dwarfs seated themselves and, amid flying erases and pieces of chalk, learnedto count with letters instead of numbers. This was difficult, because letters cannot be counted successfully on fingers. Emerging from this chamber, the dwarfs entered another one, both larger and lighter, where their time was spent on Wsocial studiesu. In neat, chronological order, the dwarfs learned what happened in the United States after 1812, during the Civil War, and in the years Uhat followed it up to their own time, 1948. With a helpful, enthusiastic giant as a guide, the dwarfs discussed events, deliberated upon their meanings, and pondered their effects. Then, in the dead of winter, when the snow was piled high around the cave, the dwarfs decided to give a play. First they read Sing Out, Sweet Land! and found that they liked it. Then followed two days of reading parts aloud--Ntrying-outn this is called--until the drama giant decided which character each dwarf could best portray. For three weeks all was confusion. The dwarfs and assisting giants rushed about re- hearsing songs, scenes, and dances, and sewing costumes, painting scenery, and -H , M , I . fl Q Q 'T 3Jk 'Z xii-iflcbh lug' lk? Dann QR

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and tried to shove a little rubber disc across the floor. They even threw egg-shaped balls across fields and sometimes kicked round balls far up into the air. At intervals, the giants who were in charge of the tortures tried to drown the dwarfs in a large pool of water. The female dwarfs followed much the same course as the male dwarfs, but their tortures were subtler. An added torment was a strange form of calisthenics called Wmodern danc1ng'. 'I call your bluffl' After this excercise, the ravenous dwarfs trooped downto their feeding chamber. They were a rowdy bunch, always getting scolded for laughing too much and not eating the right things. After their repast, the dwarfs climbed the stairs, and for the remainder of their lunch period, they argued politics, played bridge, and wandered about in the passages of the cave. When the cave-work started again, the dwarfs went down to a well-lighted cham- ber which reeked of strange odors. There, all through the year, they were instructed inthe usecd'strange powders and liquids. learning of this sort was called Wsciencen. The dwarfs had a merry time with some of the apparatus. A merry time, too, the dwarfs had in the arts chambers. Some learned how to knock a nail into a board without bending it. Others learned how to play with paints without coloring themselves. Still others made concoctions from organic substances, a process called Wcookingu. Indeed, the dwarfs spent many happy, busy days in the cave with the giants. Unfortunately, there was an enemy tribe in a cave some blocks away. This cave was filled with crafty giants who wished to put an end to the activities within the red brick cave. The giants began to take actions which mostcH'the dwarfs did not understand, and were there- fore powerless to stop. The giants of the red brick cave tried hard ... but what happened to the giants and the dwarfs remains unknown. That makes this one of the few unfinished fairy tales in the history of man- kind. Mr. Greenlee generates in general science Page 37