Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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Jf®WL WILLIE AND THREE EYES By Helen Clarke, L9i£. NE day as Willie was walking through the woods, he saw a great hollow tree which seemed to stand apart from all the others. Like every other little boy, Willie was very curious and thought he would examine it. He peeped through the hole, and then determined to crawl in and see what a hollow tree was like. Inside he found a ladder, very narrow and steep, but he climbed up until he came to a little window. Indeed, the boy began to think that this was the funniest tree he had ever seen. Looking in the window he saw a little room containing a table and two chairs. Seated at this table, eating lunch, was a very funny man with a round face and three e}-es. As Willie had never seen anyone with three eyes, he thought it would be a great treat to go into the room and see the funny man. Seeing a little door, he knocked gently and a shrill voice from within cried “Come in!” Willie needed no second bidding, so he opened the door and went in. “Who are you?” said the little man. “I’m Willie and I came up the ladder. Do you live here?” “Yes,” said the little man, “my name is Three Eyes and this tree is my house. Won’t you have some lunch?” Of course, Willie accepted, for he saw a great pie on the table, and I expect it would be hard to find any little boy who would have refused, after seeing such a pie. But poor Willie! He did not like the pie at all, and no wonder! It was full of spools. “’Scusc me, Mr. Three Eyes,” he said, “but I don’t like spool pie and I’m afraid I can’t eat it.” Three Eyes then asked him if he would like some cake, but this was worse than the pie. It was filled with tacks. He then poured out a glass of lemonade, and this was gasoline. By this time Willie had determined that he was not hungry, so he left the table and looking out of the win- dow he saw another great hollow tree. This tree, Willie learned, was the home of the Owl, a great friend of Three Eyes. B E o I 28

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something would happen and he would not get to play, but I suppose I must make the best of it.” “I just know we will lose now,” said Marie. “Our best player gone. What shall we do?” The party had a worse ending than anyone could imag- ine for all the girls felt that Bedford was doomed with its best player out of the game. Far across the campus in one room of a certain house lay Jack in bed with a bunch of boys sitting around. Jack had not been hurt very badly, but the doctor thought it best that he did not play the next day. The boys were all down-hearted because they knew what it meant to have Jack out of the game. Ben broke the silence. “Well, I am going to bed; how about the rest of you?” “I second the motion,” said Ted, and all the boys went to their rooms. The next day Betty was permitted to go over to see Jack and to her great surprise he was up. “Why, Jack, I thought that you would be in bed,” said Betty. “Oh, no Sis, I feel a lot better today, but I am afraid I won’t get to play.” “It is too bad, Jack, but if you would play you might get hurt worse and that would never do because you know if Mother and Dad would ever find out that you were hurt they would never let. you play again.” “Yes, I know, and that’s the reason I’m not going to play.” “Now, don’t forget my advice,” cried Betty as she start- ed out of the door. The girls as usual were out on the grounds early. “Mv, but Haydenville’s men look as if they could play,” said Marie. “They sure do,” exclaimed Lucile, who was from the South. Betty was wondering where Jack was when the whistle blew for the game to begin. All was silent until Haydenvillc’s men were seen getting the ball rapidly toward their goal. The girls immediately set up a roar and it must have given courage for at once the Bedford fellows seemed to take the ball right back to their goal. At the end of the first half the score was five to five, each team having made a touchdown. Now came the task. Ben had been hurt in the first half and Bedford had no one to put in that was capable of tak- ing the place. The first whistle blew, they only had a few minutes and the question was, “Who shall it be?” “I’ll go,” said Jack. All were so astonished that they did not have time to ask him if he really thought that he ought to. Just as the last whistle blew Jack finished getting into his suit. Nothing could be heard for the cheers that went up when he walked out on the grounds. “Now, J ick, do the stunt! We must have the game,” was the cry of the crowd. Jack was determined to do something. The last half was about over and neither side had won anything. Every- one was frantic yelling, “Now is your chance, do it, do it.” It. was the time to take the chance and Jack took the ball. Everybody stood breathless until they saw that Jack had actually made a touchdown. lie had no more than made it until the referee blew the whistle and the game was out. Then such a cry as went up! “Hurrah for Jack, he’s the player, three cheers for Jack.” The girls veiled as loudly as the boys and the noise was so great that no one heard Betty exclaim, “And Jack did it all.”

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After Three Eyes finished his lunch, he took Willie to see the Owl, but instead of climbing up, a basket was let down and they were drawn up. The Owl looking very sol- emn and dignified, was reading a letter when they entered. He told them he had just received an invitation from the Man in the Moon, and asked them to go along. Three Eyes accepted and of course Willie did too, but the only thing that worried Willie was that he did not see how they were going to get there. But he soon found out, for on go- ing out into the yard, he saw a comet tied to a post. “What a funny way to travel!” thought Willie, but he was a very polite little boy, and did not wish to hurt the Owl’s feelings. Willie, the Owl and Three Eyes were soon on the comet’s back and away they went like the wind. When they ar- rived at the moon, the comet stopped and they jumped off and walked up a little yellow path to a little yellow house and knocked at a little yellow door. A little yellow man opened the door and asked them to enter. The Man in the Moon, a very round man with a very round shining face, was waiting for them on the roof of 29 the house. The dinner being ready, they sat down at a table with yellow dishes, but Willie did not see anything to eat. Finally the soup was brought in, but what funny soup it was! It was nothing but green cheese and indeed everything that was served was made of green cheese. Wil- lie, seeing that everyone ate it, followed their example, say- ing to himself that this dinner was better than Three Eyes’ anyway. After dinner they all went fishing in the Milky Way, which proved to be a great river of milk. They caught all kinds of strange things. First Willie caught a diamond crown, the Owl caught a pair of boots and Three Eyes caught an umbrella. Finally they became tired of fishing, so the Owl put on his boots, Willie put on his crown, Three Eyes put up his umbrella and they all went back to the Man in the Moon’s house. After telling him what a pleas- ant time they had had, and inviting him to come to their houses, they jumped upon the comet and started home They soon arrived at Willie’s house, and he jumped off and ran in to tell his mother about his wonderful trip.