Northwestern State University - Potpourri Yearbook (Natchitoches, LA)

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And so, Best Beloved, that ' s how the Normal School got its Boys-who- used-to-be-bad-but-who-are-going-to-be-good, and they are almost it, ' cause the Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity gave them a sure-enough party, one time — but this is all to this story. Those things on the top row are Little-Boys-who-used-to-be-bad, and the things on the bottom row are Little Boys-bein ' -good. They look kinder sad, but if you turn ' em upside down they don ' t. That funny-looking thing in that first boy ' s mouth ain ' t a stick of candy — it ' s a pipe that bad little boys smoke. Those wobbly-looking things are not boys; they are sticks. I put them in ' cause I thought they ' d look pretty; but you musn ' t get the boys and the sticks mixed up. This picture would look beautiful painted. 25

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HOW THE NORMAL GOT ITS BOYS. Now, this is the next tale, and it tells how the Normal got its Boys- who-used-to-be-bad-but-who-are-going-to-be-good. Well, you know, Best Beloved, a long time ago there were just lots of Normal Girls who were lonesome ' cause they didn ' t have any little boys to play with, and so they just cried and cried, and said: 0 Mr. Great High President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity, please get us some Little Boys who used-to-be-bad-but-who-are-going-to-be-good to play with us, ' cause we ' re just so lonesome! And the Great-High-President of infinite-resource-and-sagacity looked at the girls, and he frowned and he frowned, ' cause he didn ' t want any Lit- tle-Boys-who-used-to-be-bad-but-are-going-to-be-good. But, Best Beloved, we know that all Little Boys used to be bad and are going to be good. So then the Faculty-who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do-what-they- oughter said : 0 Mr. Great-High-President-of infinite resource-and-sagacity, please get us some Little Boys-who-used-to-be-bad, so we can teach them to be good, ' cause you know all the little girls are so good, and so we haven ' t got anybody to teach to be good, and we won ' t have any way to do what we oughter. Then the Great-High-f-resident looked all sniffly, and he looked at them so hard that the Faculty got scared, and all the little girls got scared, and they ran away. And then the Great-High-President-with-all-his-in- finite-resource-and-sagacity thought and thought, and while he was think- ing Little Imp, who lived where people are bad, but want to be better, came to him and said : O Mr. Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity, I know where you can get some Little-Boys-who-used-to-be-bad-but-are-go- ing-to-be-better. They don ' t live in Heaven, ' cause St. Peter won ' t let them in, but they want to move from where-they-are, and so I told them that the next place to Heaven was the Normal School, where they have a Great-High-President-of-infmite-resource-and-sagacity and a Faculty- who-are-wise-and-good-and-always-do-what-they-oughter, and a lot of Girls-who-are-lonesome- ' cause-they-haven ' t-got-any-little-b o y s-t o-p 1 a y- with. And then the Great-High-President-of-infinite-resource-and-sagacity told the Little Imp that he could bring those Little Boys. 24

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hi(Mm fktmol(M When I was in the first two terms, All verdant and unafraid, I walked the places noisily Where angels fear to tread. I 4,-m. Tw.o-rva.Yck of a.(( I survey- But when I entered third and fourth, tfe gods! it doth amaze — I really thought that I alone Was monarch of all I surveyed. 26