Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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 9lla« £R, “Apples make cider, But Pear s' make ‘Soap.’ ” Cta,,ORofto: “iJiRuA 6 ml.s 0ut £dton” CL,, %ff Rickety-Rackety-Thunder in Heaven Nineteen Hundred and Eleven. ( iaAA i.Wailat:

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 J 2afyn fHifumLa 1 And if a mouse were to meet her She'd sink away in a swoon. 9)tux,( 9RaA onv’i !l “Never sigh when you can sing, But laugh like me at everything.”

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die OaAA olj 19I I. ATE one afternoon in May as I was strolling X y. along the sandy beach in Rawlins, Wyoming, looking over the marvelous expanse of water commonly It' called Sugar Creek—ftho’ how it derived its name I have been unable to ascertain—I was suddenly aroused from a semi-conscious state of meditation by a long drawn, weird howl from a nearby tent of an ancient Arab Magi who told future and past events. Curiousity obtained the upper hand and I walked quickly over to the tent to see what was doing. Cautiously I opened the tent flap and peered into the semi-darkness. In one corner sat the old Magi on crossed legs with terror in his eyes. In front of him was a a string of beads interwoven with camel's hair, which were swaying violently. The old Arab look ed up as if conscious that somehow was watching him and, as he noticed me, he beckoned me to come in “Sit down, Sahib, he said, “and may Allah protect us both for some great revelation is about to be made. The beads are humming and it is time for something to occur.” I sat down shaking with fear, I believe—and presently a voice which seemed to be hovering over the beads began: “Abu- Merwin, it is the wish of the unknown that certain facts of the past should now be revealed. These facs pertain to that most High and Royal Order of Stag Seven cf 1911. Listen while they are told: “The year 1891 will always be remembered for it was during that year’s annals that a human marvel was born, by name, Myrtle Ivy, in the wonderful city of Baggs,—second only to Rawlins —of parents who could well be proud of such a daughter. Myrtle, as she grew older showed such a steady increase in Mental Activities that her parents thought it best to move to Rawlins where Myrtle might enter a school accustomed to such mental phe nomena; here she soon became a member of the High and Royal Order of S ag Seven of 1911. Unaccustomed to anything but the pursuit of knowledge Myrtle was much put out when attentions were paid her by admirable young students. But in spite, of dissapointments and discouragements she persevered and list, She graduates. For a space there was silence the voice commenced again: Nov. 3, 1891, dawned with an event of great im- portance for on that day Mae Ryan was born. Mae was a wee little mite‘and was much taken by an indespensible universal household substance which she considered necessary in the cultivation of many of the major arts of maidenhood particularly when