Lacon High School - Tickler Yearbook (Lacon, IL)

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WITH NICHOLS IN THE .IUNGLES .-X hair-raising, hairbreadth. bloodcurdling story of that great scientist and explorer, together with his class, and their advantages, duly chronicled by one of the party: Wlhat the object was in exploring the beast-Hlled dense and tropical for- est, and sandbur jungle, none of us, not even Col. Nichols. who was in com- mand of the expedition, seemed to know. XYe were like a duck on its Way. but didn't know where we were going. The unlucky expdition was started at 3:15 o'clock Monday, Qctober 10, 1020. XVe met with disaster at the very start. A Hat tire on Col. Nichols' trust can halted us and were obliged to commandeer another roadlouse to transport us to the outposts of civilization. From here we plunged forth into a new world Cof burrsl and began to experience the difficulties attending on explorers. Somehow the burrs were always getting in the girls' hair, and tireen, another member of the party, was hit with a jimpson burr and tem- porarily disabled. XVe wandered for miles below the little village of Lacon without seeing a single white person. XYe saw a few natives in a boat, but Col. Nichols could not get close enough to talk to them. XYe had Green along as interpreter the can translate anything from Hog Latin to Gibber- ish, very efficient in factl. lloa-constrictors were numerous and of great size. Some were at least three feet long and three-fourths inch thick. It was here that tireen's savage nature asserted itself tfor he was born and raised in the woodsl. lle no sooner saw a bug or worm than he was for putting it to death. He caused Col. Nichols no end of trouble hy his blood- EXTRA EXTRA-HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS GASSED Un the afternoon of that memorable day. january 12th, five murderous boys, whose names we refrain from mentioning, perpetrated a villainous deed in the laboratory. They prepared a container of HQO, heating it with a burner. NVhen the poisonous vapor began to issue from the mouth of the boiler, a tube was attached, the end of which was forced under the door lead- ing to the High School assembly room. Soon the effects of the terrible gas thirstiness. were noted by the students. who were diligently studying. All sorts of ex- cuses were found for leaving that side of the room where the vapors were entering. lly these omens it was that Miss Toyne discovered to her horror the obnoxious tube. liravely holding her breath she advanced with a firm step and quickly grasped the death-dealing instrument with a grip of iron. As ill luck would have it the vapors were of high temperature. Consequently the tube was very unpleasant to play with. liy the law of Gay-Lussac, the heat of the tube was transferred almost immediately to the hand, which caused a rapid rise in Miss 'l'oyne's temper. The villains were immediately apprehended of the act and it was only after many evasive answers to the stern questions that were directed toward them that they escaped long prison sentences.

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Then sly Cupid shot an arrow INNOCEN TS ABROAD This tale concerns two little maids XX'ho by themselves did roam. One day they entered No Mans Land, There intending' to make their home, They chased the squirrel, the birds. the beesg They frolicked with the wind, And with great ease they climbed the trees, And left a man made world behind. Carefree and gay they roamed all day, Hut when evening came, came woe, For the Klan in the Moon, with a witching s Caused each to think of her beau. Next evening' when the moon arose This is what he spied: Une uf these girls and she wasn't alone, And the man's name rhymed with sighed llut the other wandered farther Till she reached the Isle of Man: There she lingered late and early, Sighing, Catch me if you can. VVhich made a noiseless thud. Naughty man pursued her And now her name is l5udd. mile