Santa Ana High School - Ariel Yearbook (Santa Ana, CA)

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THE 'ARIEL defeated tribes murmured not. And there were no scraps over colors, nor yet over sunbonnets, and every thing was lovely to the last degree. And, behold! on the way home things were even yet more lovely, and the stars winked, and the chaperones saw not. And for a time there was no more trouble and no more scrapping, and study reigned supreme over the House of joseph. But when the an- nual is published, then will there be weeping and gnashing of teeth and the editors will have to hie themselves to the backwoods to escape the wrath of the multitude. But, nevertheless, blessings, and peace, and success in examinations, be with you all, now and ever more. Amen. Once there was some little boys, Who, for a demonstration, Although 'twas wholly out of order,' just made a conllagration. 7 'Tis probable they thought that they The world on fire would set, But hardly realized this thing Would not be finished yet. For the result was even more widespread Than these young men desired, For the Hames didn't stop when the paper burned, And the boys themselves were FIRED ! EDNA BLEE, '06 B.

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THE ARIEL out in time before the bell rings, we will pass it by. But in all cases ye must bring a certificate from home, stating that indeed ye were not able to walk or that ye could not get out from under the bricks. And about this time a certain damsel, named Elsie, of the junior class, in great glee and exuberance of spirit at being let out at the end of the day, rushed merrily down the stairs. .And as she turned the corner she fell, even from the second landing to the first floor, and great was the fall thereof, and for a week thereafter she walked with a limp and smiled not. And also in those days there came certain athletes from afar off, to try their skill and prowess, and the athletes of the House of Joseph failed in many things 5 yea, many times did they suffer defeat, and there was Woe in the hearts of the people. . And it came to pass as the days went by, that the semester grew shorter, and another term was nigh at hand. And, behold, another dele- gation of green ones came from the grammar grades, and the former things were passed away, and the former green ones were green no more. And a few there were who tarried by the wayside and went not on with their classes. But they were exceeding few, for the servants of the House of Joseph are wondrously bright and studious, and wax strong in wisdom and meanness likewise. ' And for a time there were not many difficulties to disturb the peace of Joseph, and quiet reigned in the land. And certain young men took it upon themselves to break the monotony and they went unto the scribes of the town, and said unto them, Lol we are locked in the assembly hall every morning and there is no way to get out, and our hearts quake with fear, lest at any time there should be a fire and we be cooked. And ac- cordingly the scribes, not knowing the truth, published it abroad and it excited great alarm. And certain of the fire department came to investi- gate and they found it was not so. And the faculty was very wroth, and said unto the young men, XVe want not such as you. Get ye hence. And they got, and have not returned to this day. And it came to pass that the day of the picnic drew nigh, and the hearts of the students jumped for joy, yea, quivered like a lamb's tail, and they said one to another, Surely now we are about to have some excite- ment. Yea, verily, we will raise Cain. But, behold! when the great day came there was peace over all Laguna, and the tribes of the House of Joseph warred not with one another. And the faculty brought gifts of candy and gave unto the tribe whose equipage was the gayest, and the

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'r H E A R 1 E L jfiV6 QUITE' 'worth of 'IRCD IDCDDCV' Eggs were forty cents a dozen and Roger Bane's hens were laying as if their very lives depended upon their effortsg as, indeed, they did, for the death sentence of the chicken peddler would claim them when they ceased to pay for their feed. Roger was returning from the egg market with the air of a man whose fortune runs up into six figures. He was alternately hugging him- self and a small package of cayenne pepper with which he hoped to warm up his hens to greater efforts. As he turned into the alley running to the back of his father's barn, where the hens cackled over new laid eggs by day and roosted over them by night, he heard a most heartrending squawk, followed by such a sug- gestion of vocal efforts as never hens and dogs indulged in before. The program which followed was probably not premeditated. At any rate, the other occupants of the barn left off when the hens began, and two darkies with well filled sacks rushed from the rear door, running swiftly in Roger's direction. He did not have time to consult his pocket edition of What Sherlock Holmes Would Do, and besides, he was so over- whelmed with the moment's contemplation of his loss that he never thought of it. He merely whacked his knees together and waited. Then im- pelled by a sense of duty he threw the package of pepper at the foremost darky. The bag burst and the second chicken thief ran into the cloud of fiery dust. Then indeed did pandemonium reign. The more serious occu- pation of stealing chickens was given up in the lighter joy of sneezing. The air was rent with a series of crashing sneezes which are said to ac- count for certain loose boards in the alley fance. But distinct detonations were soon replaced by an uninterrupted How of kerchoooo-oo-oo ! ! ! Win- dows Hew up and heads popped out in time to see a bluecoat rush reck- lessly into the death-dealing cloud, from which he failed to emerge in a reasonable length of time, also the volume of sound was audibly increased. A happy idea at last struck Roger, and he rushed to the corner and turned in the fire-alarm, and soon a stream of water was mingling with the tears of the three victims of five cents' worth of red pepper. WRISTEN Coox, '05 A.