Port Byron High School - Echo Yearbook (Port Byron, IL)

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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe With this housing shortage, what else could she do? Mr. Johnson: nHave you seen my hat anywhere?n Miss Perring: HIt'S on your head,N Mr. Johnson: HI thank you. Only for you I should have gone off without it.U Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb said, uRinSo White, Rinso White.0 Two Cavalry rookies were given a horse apiece. They won- dered how they could tell them apart. HI'll cut the mane off mine,H said one, He did, but it grew back in timel UI'll trim the tail on mine,H said the other, but it, too grew out. HLets measure,H suggested the first. NPerhaps, one is higher.U y And sure enough, the black horse was a full three inches higher.than the white horse. Don: HHave you made up your mind to stay in?n Barb: UNO, I've made up my face to go out.n Don't keep telling her you are unworthy ---- surprise her. Mrs. Henry: NTommy Stebbins, what is wrong with this sentencey uThe horse and the cow is in the pasture?W Tommy: HOne ought to always put the lady flrst,W Chuck: Hold you bake these biscuits with your bwh little hands?N r Helen: nYes, dear.n , Chuck: UWell, who helped you lift them off the stove?u Marriage is the only life sentence that is suspended by bad behavior. Visitor fat the jailj HP90r man, What are you locked in here for?H ' . v Prisoner: HThey think l'd get out if I WeSn't. Oh, energetic jitterbug, Vivacioys, young, and fleet onc- Always keen to cut a rug, And yet too tired to beat one. A man can sometimes get a pearl out of en OV5t5rs but it takes a pretty girl to get a diamond out of en old crao

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THE RAVENOUS BEDBUG CWith apoligies to Peel nOnce while I was soundly sleeoing Suddenly I felt a creeping A Like a squad of soldiers keeoing Time uoon my tender sking First, I started into scratch Then I reached and struck a match Then the covers I did snatch And bared myself from toes to chin. As I lay there, all uncovered Then upon my chest there hovered A live bedbug---Holy Geell Quite awhile I lay and pondered What to do with him I wondered And to me there seemed a hundred ,All as hungry as could bel UAh, my hungry one,H I muttered As the icy shivers fluttered-- But to me no word he uttered Kept on biting as before. CTaste of my flesh must have pleased himll Then I reached and gently seized him lAnd between my fingers squeezed him. Moved that bedbug nevermoretn Deacon Jones was very ill. His brethren were keenly interested in his condition. Toward the end, bulletins were posted on the blackboard outside of his house. l'a.m. Deacon Jones very much worse. 2 a.m. Deacon Jones sinking fast. 3 a.m. Deacon Jones very low. 4 a.m. Deacon Jones dead. Gone to heaven. A little boy read the bulletin and then added: 5 a.m. Great excitement in heaven. Deacon Jones not yet arrived. Marilyn: HMust we say goodnight, Earl?N . Mr. Sidlinger's voice from the stairs: HNo, Just wait a minute and say 'good morning'.H Bob Eckelberry was very romantic. He held the lovely ' t close to him and Whispered in her shell pink ear crea ure - L 'Darling, I love you as no one ever loved before.N e H UI can't see much difference, Jackie replied. ,N said nlfd like a couple of hard boiled eggs to go out the sailor to the girl at the lunch counter. ' uAll ri ht N reolied the girl with a smile, Hbut you ll 8 . have to wait. Mamie and me don't get off -til lO.H