Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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PERCY ALGERNON ny rimxris nnowx, '15, Percy Algernon Brookes Jr. sat up in the hammoek and tossing' away his eigar- ette gazed lazily around him. Above. per- feet blue sky with three tiny white elonds like nice clean wooly lambs, below velvety green grass fleeked with little white and yellow daisies. and all around him fruit trees ot' every deseription. Perey Algernon rose languidly. gazed anxiously at the knees of his white flannel trousers to see that they preserved their erease, straightened his lavender tie and sautnter- ed over to the nearest pear-h tree. llere he earefully selected a peaeh, strippd off the skin and ate it, wiping his fingers daintily oft' on a lavender bordered hand- kerehief. Percy Algernon Jr. was truly a thing of llis sleek. yel- in the sunlight faee was pink beauty and a joy forever. low pompadour glistened like so mueh gold. His and his rather small eyes were bright blue fringed with golden lashes. llis negligee shirt ot' soft silk was a work of art and his white flannel trousers faultlessly ereased. His white eanvas shoes were spotless and his lavender tie everything a tie shond be. Perey Algernon was not above average height, in faet. rather below it, and looked more like a pretty little girl masquerading as a boy than anything' else. He had eome out to the eountrv for his health ttoo many eoektails and lobster saladsl and so far had been intensely bored. llis only hope of diversion lay in a pretty nieee of the man with whom he wag staying. and that hope was faint. for so far she had been b-irely eivil to him. llowever Perey Algernon was a persistent young' man. As he finished eating his peaeh on this Fine June morning' and gazed around him with a bored air. a girl eame tlirou-'zh the frees. A smile parted l'erey', lios and he bowed. Ah 'tis Titania herself' that eomes hither. Whfflier away. fair one The Fair Une looked rather displeased than otherwise. Good morning, Mr. Brookes, she said rather eurtly and added, l'm Going to get some fruit for Lnele Hillf As she passed on Mr. Brookes gazed at her with a puzzled air and somewhat mournful expression. Why would that girl never tlirt wtih him? Ile rhook his head sadly and went back to tht- hammoek, sat down. still gazing at her. Florenee lioring' was really verv pretty. She was small, slender and graee- ful. ller hair was dark and slightly wavy. falling over her forehead and ears in little eurls. ller faee was rather pale than otherwise and delieate looking, her lips bright searlet and she had large brown eyes. This morning she was wear- ing a dark blue skirt and a white sailor bloinse with a red tie. She was earrying a jaunty Panama hat whieh she put on after she passed Brookes. As he sat there watehing her a young man eame through the orr-hard ealling. Florenee. oh, Florenee, wait a minute! Perev Algernon noted with some satis- t u-tion that hp was not very handsome: but there was something' very likafble and attrac-tive about him. lele was not extremely tall but well made and strong looking. Ile wore gray eorduroys and a gray shirt open at the neek and with sleeves rolled up, displaying well tanned nec-k and arms. His fave was also tanned and his hair was dark. 'llis blue eyes looked strangely blaek by eontrast. When the girl heard his voiee she turn- ed and smiled. and when he eame un w'th her he tumbled a small, fat. blinking puppy from under his arm on the grourfl. Sho sqnealed with delight and pieked it up. Perey Algernon watehed all this at- turncd over in the ham- teutively. then mor-lc and went to sleep. -Ile was just waking' up when Florenee and the young man passed him on their

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JOLLEY JUNIOR SET Ry BLANf'lllC JUICTT, 715 Listen my c-hilrlren mul youu sh:1ll heur A rhyvne ot' the Junior Vlzlss so fleur. Of the Freshies and Sophs you llZlY0 llQ1l1'1l Nou' you must listen to this xvorfl. Alvin who is so very shy Is surely never pert: He often seems to he zlsleep Hut yet he is ulert. Neva is our little flirt, She always had the liuhit, And when she sees her -l'lit'Fy near She gets fussefl as 11 ruhhit. Sluts loves to hiteh up horses For eertuin girls you know, But were it not for Zehie rleur lVe feel 'tyvouhl not he so. Fruneis still uses her pretty smiles lVhieh have eupturefl il, Q'I'illll'lillP1 And every noon they take 21 walk So she often eoines in lute. Fun it he Pat smokes a pipe? Ah, yes! ,tis sad to tell, lVith tohneeo rare and ripe He'll surely sound his knell. Ellzfs the new girl Qt our sc-hool, She might have proved most elever At hnsket bull. hut skinncml her arm, Sinee then she ling played-never. John mal-'es eyes at 21 Senior guy: Now isn't that some nerve? HQ is 21 goo-rl -ball player. too, And eau throw ai Q'rueel ul eurve. Lust but not least of Juniors Fomes Hlunelie-u eertuin winner- lf you think she works liurcl at sf-hool Just vvziteli her at her dinner.

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way baek. Hut John. he heard hc-r say. don't you think it might hurt him? Hllhl Pooh, said Jolm, of eourse not. lle ean run. YVell all right then. maybe he won't be sneh a pest afterwards. Perey suppos- ed they were talking' about the pup and uezul oft again. When he awoke again and siuntered up to the house, he saw Florenee sitting- alone on the poreh reading. lle was eonsider- ably siniprised to ref-eixe a sweet smile from her as she looked up and saw him. and hastened. as mueh as was eonsistent with his dignity, over and sit down be- side her. Oh, l'm so glad you eame along, Mr. Brookes, she said sweetly, I'm going' to piek some blaek-berries tomorrow that grow quite a way down the road. and I wondered if you woufd like to g'o with me. Percy wonde1'ed a little that the tanned youth ealled John was not going, but Percy was not one to let an oppor- tunity slip, so he answered with alaerity that he would be delighted to follow wher- crf-r she might choose to lead him. He failed to see the little stnile that Florenef- quit-l'ly repressed. A half hour passsd quiekly and Perey was beginning' to think the eountry wasn't sueh an awful -bore, when suddenly Florenee remembered she had promised to read to her uinele, so she left him. telling' him to be ready for the walk early in the morning. Perey Algernon gazed thoughtfully at her trim little figure as she went around the eorner of the house and as she turned and smiled at him he daintily blew her a kiss from his finger-tips. How was he to know that she fairly doubled up and shrieked with laughter as she threw herself on the floor at her unele's feet. F'lorie, what prank are you up to now, asked her unele YVill patting' her shaking' shoul- der. Don't you ever mean to g'ro',v up and be dignified? Forenee sat up and wiped the tears from her eyes. Uflh uncle. the fuinniest thing! It's about our pretty boarder. No l won't tell you for you might think it your duty to tell him. and th-it would spoil everythinfr. No you needn't ask John either for he won't tell 17 you. The next morning' about nine o'r-loek l'erey Algernon Brookes and l lorenee. eaeh earrying' a large red pail, started down the eool eountry road, lined on either side and shaded by huge ever- greens. l'erey wort- a panama hat ot' the latest style, that matehed the rest of his beautilul Fillllleflt whieh was the same as on the previous day. ext-ept that the lav- ender tie, handkerehiet' and soeks were ehanged to the eolor of a bi.-autitul Alive blue. Florenee's dress was dark blue and xery plain, and her panama hat was plainly made for use rather than o1'na- ment. Yet even fastidious l'erey eould find no fault with the sweet faee beneath, with the dark eurls around the forehead and ears. lle wondered if her demure prettiness was not even more attractive than the bolder c-harms of his latest ador- ed one in town. What means had he ot' knowing' that this little girl was not so innor-ent as she looked, and that every now and then a wieked little smile eurx ed her pretty lips. Perey proeeeded to be as agreeable and etiteitaining' as possible, telling' her won- derful tales of his eollege days, and his prowess as an athlete, at whieh Florenee observing' his weak face and puny shoul- ders inwardly sniffed eontemptnlously but outwardly smiled sweetly. Uh look, Mr. Brookes, she eried, suddenlv interrupt- ing' an espeeially exeiting' story, What beauties! Do get them for mel 11 Eh, what? said Perey, for he had en- tirely forgotten about the berries. iere, see! on the other side of the f.-nee! Those three bushes! Perf-y efri looked and, indeed, they were very good- looking- berries. By mueh exertion and with Florenee's aid he managed to get through the fenee, pulling' the hsining red pail after him. There was a bull at the end of the field the remembered afterwards of thinking' what an unusually mild looking' bull it wasl and two or three pigs that gazed at him stupidly. Perey was soon absorbed in his task, eonseious that Flor- enee was watehing' him, and the pail on his a1'm was rapidly filling: when he heard ri oeeuliar sowind behind him and turned. llis hair seemed to rise and his blood to