Piedmont High School - Tris Yearbook (Piedmont, WV)

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If lf-rl as Nervous musician: I-er-I just called around, madam, to tell you that your cat-er-kept us awake last night with its serenade. I am a musician myself and a humane man, and I-er-don't wish to have it destroyed, but I thought if you could have it-er-tuned ? Was your brother cool when the burglar broke in the other night ? asked Mrs. Featherbyf' Cool ? replied Jonnie. Why, he shivered all over. Traffic Rule No. 2 in Tokio, Japan, is as follows: When a passenger of the foor heave in sight tootle the horn trumpet to him melodiously at first. If he still obstacles your passage, tootle with angry vigor and express by words of mouth the warning: 'Hil Hi I' Fair Visitor: Is there some place aboard Where I can get a drink of water ? The Gob: Certainly, Miss. At the scuttlebutt, on the starboard side of the gun deck, 'midships, just for'rud of the dynamo hatch. Waiter, said a customer after Waiting fifteen minutes for his soup, have you ever been to the zoo ? No, sir. Well, you ought to go. You would enjoy seeing the turtles Whiz past. He: Do I need a hair cut? The Barber: No-but We don't braid hair here. From the Finals Poise is the Way a Dutchman says boys. Equinox is a wild animal that lives in the Arctic. King Arthur's Round Table was written by the author of Ten Knights in a Bar Room. Copernicus invented the cornucopia. Etiquette teaches us how to be polite Without trying to remember to be. In the stone age all the men were ossified. The climax to a story is where it says it is to be continued. A gulf is a dent in a continent. Buttress is a butler's wife. Conservation means doing without things We need. If Ponce de Leon hadn't died before he found the fountain of youth, he Wouldn't have died. A blizzard is the inside of a hen. A circle is a round, straight line with a hole in the middle. Page ninety-ffvc ' in

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Page Some Seniors think- A Senior stood on a railroad track, The train was coming fast, The train got off the railroad track And let the Senior pass. The girl who kisses promiscuously isn't really bad-she's merely gen- erous. He: Still love me? She: Yes. He: Very much? She: Bushels. c He: Then, say, honey, couldn't I keep six bits out of my salary this week ? Lola: What a pity it is that handsome men are always conceited. Sally S.: N ot always, little girl, I'm not. First Porter: You sure have one big mouth. Second Porter: Say, man, that ain't no keyhole in the front of your face. X, i'The Outline of Love Grade School- Roses ith red Violets ith blue Sugar ith sweet And tho ith ooo. High School- Chrysanthemums are beautiful And so is marmalade: Without you, darling Gwendolyn, My life's a dead night shade. University- The moon is silver-sheathed, As you, my golden symphony. 'Tis you I crave to Wed, My agonizing ecstasy. Ten years wed- I have a knife, It's blade is true. For 30 cents I'd murder you. Page ninety-four

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,ff ' lvl ml George Washington married Mary Curtis and in due time became the father of his country. Sixty gallons makes one hedgehog. Georgia was founded by people who had been executed. A mountain range is a large cook stove. Achilles was dipped in the river Styx to make him normal. Pompeii was destroyed from an eruption of saliva from the Vatican. Typhoid fever is prevented by fascination. ' Mr. Knode in Chemistry: Under what combination is gold most quickly released? Norman Hoffa: Marriage. Here is the Latest in Comparisons: 1. Wild as a temper in a telephone booth. 2. About as funny as sleeping with a roet dog in a swamp. 3. She looked like a garden after an early frost. 4. Domestic as a plate. 5. A voice like a soprano hyenaf' 6. A laugh like a squadron of cavalry crossing a tin bridge. 7. About as much chance as a blind man following a green line. 8. Young as the waves. 9. She seemed to be swathed in a soft radianor, the same as you detect in the middle bulb of a radio set. 10. About as apparent as a microbe's eyebrow. 11. Knocked him so flat you could play him on a Victrola. 12. Doesn't dominate any more than a wart on a pickle. 13. As idle as a horse doctor in Detroit. Passenger: Conductor, the fellow opposite is a lunatic. He's scaring my wife. Seems to think he's Napoleon. - Conductor: I'll attend to him. Shouts: Next Station Waterloo. Waiter: Everything cooked to please you, sir ? Patron: Yes, all but the bill. Just take it back and tell them to boil it down a little. What you doing now, Bill ? 'Tm plant manager for old Skidrox. Plant manager! Vlfhat do you have to do ? Water the geraniumsf' Page ninety-six