Peabody High School - Peabody Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE PEABODY OUR FLAG Your flag? And what's it good for? A Star of Hope by night Swift shot through murk and smoke and blood A symbol gleaming bright For men to live for, strive for, die forg A banner born of Light. The pure clear gleam of coming Mom Has lent its limpid hueg The sapphire blaze of Noon-day sky, That field of blue,-true blueg Those crimson stripes-why, Sunset's light Has laid that gorgeous hue. Our Hag? And what's it good for? Its red and white and blue Of evening glow, of purest light, Of Heaven's tranquil hue. Our heart, our hand, we pledge to Thee The red, the white, the blue. L. K.

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THE PEABODY 27 lim' Editor, l.l l.l.lAN Klililtilili HIS GIRL Lillian Kreiger He had known her all his life, when they had poked sticks through the fence at the sleepy old dog and felt the thrill of perilous delight wlhen he growled, when he had waved wriggly worms suspended from a stick at her, and heard her squeal with ghoulish glee: when she had switched to the dignity of plaits seemingly made for his express amusement. All his memories held her, the free wind of April, the twitching, pulling kite, and Dorothy tagging close at his heels, faithful slave, obeying his fine commandsg dreamy August drowse, the dusky pool, the leaping fish, and Dorothy at his side, keeping fearsome silence: mellow October, the brown road before them, the blazing woods ahead, and Dorothy listening at his side as he boasted of the future and told his dreams, knowing them safe in Dorothy's hands. He never dreamt of getting a crush on her: why, he didn't even think Dorothy pretty! He could not have told whetl1er her eyes were gray or brown. He was only vag'uely conscious of the warm glow of good-fellowship in them. lle did not know that .lDorothy's hair was a cloak of chestnut waves lovelier than ermine robe of state. He was but dimly aware of the way she had of tossing back the heavy mane like a thoroughfbred horse. Dorothy was a good sport: he would have died before telling her so, though she hshed in- dustriously. 'l'hat would have given her the swelled head, and he believed in taking the conceit out of everybody. XVhy, he wouldn't have cared if some one would take it out of him, if he had it. But he didn't have it, of course. 'l'hey were seniors in High School now, and as a matter of course he took her to the dances. It was mighty convenient for him-saved him the trouble