Racine High School - Kipikawi Yearbook (Racine, WI)

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Nil.? f'!f'l!Zv skill. crept slowly forward, devouring the un- conscious creature as he did so. When the snake had finished his meal, he had eaten so much that it was almost impossible for him to move. - At this moment my friend picked up a stick and killed the snake. Then with a pocket-knife he carefully cut open the serpent's back. Upon laying open the skin, we found the frog stretched out full length. Taking the victim out and running to the lake nearby, I washed him off and laid him in the water. Soon he began to re- vive, and in a short time I saw him hop- ping off to tell his friends in Frog Town Where he had been. -Harry Baernstein, '15. ON BIRDS CTaken from Anne Graham's Diary.D There are lots of kinds of birds. Some are one color and some are another. Some can sing and some can't. Parrots can't. My Aunt Miranda has a parrot. It is mostly green-and yet it is Wise, for it can talk. QNot that everything that talks is wise, you know, for I can talk and I am told that I am a goose.D By the way, geese are birds. People call them poul- try. But I know they are birds. I know because they have wings. Geese always have wings. Therefore I, being a goose, have wings, which means I am an angel or mightly like one. Oh, yes! there are robins. I can usually tell whether it is a robin or a sparrow when I see a bird, but not always, because there are lots of other kinds. Chickens also are birds. Say, did you ever see roosters fight? They just make me shudder, they are so vicious. It makes me think of a football game-they don't care at all if they hurt each other, roosters don 't. I don't see how they can, do you. There are animals which have wings and aren't birds-mosquitoes, for in- stance. I never did care about mosqui- toes. I feel about them the same as I do about tan shoes. I like to see them on other people all right, but I.don't seem to care about having them on myself. Did you ever see a raven? I've heard about them. They are black Hlld they say 4'Nevermore. My brother saw one once. Say, hels going to get married. I've been giving him a few pointers, you know. The other day he said his knife was dull. Jim. said I, severely, Never say 'the knife is dull', say 'the meat is toughf He used to be the limit. He had about six girls' pictures in his watch. Once just for a joke I changed them. He went to see one girl with the picture of another in his watch. It was a girl she just hated. I don't know what happened. I know that he hasn't seen much of her since. Once I went to a museum and saw an ostrich. Ostriches are birds. They are very large. Sometimes men ride horse- back on them. I know because once I Went to a moving picture show and there was a picture of an ostrich. A man was riding horseback on it. Oh, here comes Belinda. She said she wanted me to join the Audubon Society. All you have to do is to promise not to wear feathers on your hats. Me for dyed-turkey feathers hereafter-oh, dear, they look so horrid when they are rained on. Belinda is going to show me a place where we can see some scarlet tanagers. I wonder what they are-but I'm going to make believe I know all about them or she'll think she's too smart. Believe me, I'm going to buy a bird book and I won't say much this afternoon, then I'll read it. Next time I'll put one over her-what joy! --Ruth Harvey, '13. THE WHITE-TAIL DEER The white-tail deer is now, as it always has been, the most plentiful and most widely distributed of all the American big game. The ,range of the white-tail is from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Canadian to the Mexican borders, and somewhat to the north and south of these limits. But the deer of which I am about to describe the habits live in the extreme