Pendleton High School - Wakeipa Yearbook (Pendleton, OR)

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e Qihiturc E HIGH SCHOOL EDITOR sat in his non-swivel chair pondering deeply. Ink bottles, pen wipers, paper and paste were strewn about and over him in profusion. A typewriter stood at one e11d of the long table, its keys still smoking gently in the close atmosphere. Great drops of ink fell unheeded from his poised pen, onthe sheets of paper beneath. Sweat poured from his every pore. Night began to fall. After it had ceased falling, the editor looked at his watch, sighed, and slowly ate a fried egg he had 'thoughtfully saved from his breakfast. Resuming work, he again put his feet on the table and sank into thought. After two or three hours elapsed, an inspiration struck him. Recoiling from the impact he wrote deliriously for several minutes. Ink spattered all over the room, so great was his outburst of energy. Reaching out one hand he drew his typewriter to him. Inserting several sheets of paper hurriedly, he started writing feverishly, pausing only now and then to pour cold water over the glowing machine. The town clock struck eleven times. HIt must be about half past nine, he muttered, half to himself and half to somebody else. Casting aside his typewriter he resumed his distracted air. The ink in the ink bottles slowly dried up, but at last he resumed writing, this time carefully choosing his words from -the dictionary which stood at his elbow. His task completed he set to work gathering up the material. First, in his orderly way, he went carefully around the room, working in concentric circles toward the center, gathering up the papers as he went. Arranging them in a. neat pile, he carefully thumbed them through with his thumb. The poems he accurately measured with his metre stick, afterwards changing the result to feet by'a simple problem in calculus. The jokes he was unable to correct. as he became suffocated with laughter at each attempt to read them. The other material he corrected carefully, pausing to insert a comma here, lift out a period there, or remove a paragraph. Having completed the entire task, including the attachments of heads with pins specially prepared for the purpose by the Walla Walla Baby Supply Company, he rose to his full height, carefully straightening his back as he did so. Slowly and with long strides he left the room. JOHN BECKWITH. I S0 l

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