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

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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

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