Phillips Exeter Academy - PEAN Yearbook (Exeter, NH)

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Famine inthe lanrl, anml the Sons ofthe R to business. Anal lo, their Father hacl lel't'to them no property, and their l ather's llrother sat on the Throne. Am! fl may zz fold day. Then the Sons ofthe Ruler betook themselves to a vast sandy plain and there they formed a league. Now it came to pass that a great and mighty man stooml up before the people and, lo, they made him their Hier-I Mucxamuclc, and his Y Cl :im M y Jbff-:fl s -.. ,L ., In 5, 1 uler gat themselves name was Baumer 3 and Baumer chose a ' manager for his busi- ness, and his name wasWright, except in those four w ee k s, in which it was Den- ni s. And these men twain ran ' After many days other men of strange garb 'W the league. and aspect joinerl themselves unto Baumer and Wright, saying, Shall we not have the crumbs that fall from our masters' table? and their names were: Fox, Stenslantl, Clausen, and Camp- E203

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1bietorQ of '94. CHAPTER I. me Pmms-xml. srzxce. ' Behold, an ancient Ruler lay grievously ill, and the costly medicines of the East, and the ff 43 more costly wis- dom of the Phy- sicians and of the Magi, availed naught agai11St his sore distemper. Then the King, sick unto death, called his Sons, and spake unto them in this wise : - My Sons, an evil disease has seized my bones, and I Shall soon have to pass in my checks and leave unto thee this great and mighty V 1 kingdom, Thou art four and fifty in I is number, and thou hast great wisdom I I gllixm Jimi' l I and hustle. Go thou forth and multi- Etllfih yi' l 5 i . ply and cover the earth with thy glory. l V With these words the Ruler died, if M W W I! and his sons loudly bewailed him for ii ii ll ' i forty days. Then canfe there a great W lwl

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hell. And they dwelt together in unity,- even iii a single house-and they grew in wisdom and in spirits. Q'I'l1e brand is not precisely known.j And' still others of the Sons said, Lo, shall we not also have a gay time and learn to sport? And they came together and gave themselves a name, saying, ff We are hrothersg let this be the Frat. And it was the Frat. from that day on. And these men. were Bell, Buck, DeMeritt, Kiger, Tilton, Rogers, Metcalf and McGuire, and as the days passed on Metcalf and Meflnire left, for they thought, Surely now, our complexion has changed, we shall go. 'lfhese are the names of those who remained in the land of Egypt, but the other Sons gat themselves afar off, even to the uttermost ends of the Earth. And, behold, a mighty Potentate in the wilds of the Great Desert took unto himself some of the Sons and trained them in the ways of his land. And in the course of time he made one of them, even Holmes, his captain, and Holmes chose an army from his hrethren , a mighty host, Andrews, Ayres, Doe, Green, and Soch, and the captain did train them in the training of war. ' E213