Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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Neptune’s Gift A Bird of Passage Bumpings for the Christmas Class The Tree Squirrel Answer to ‘‘Alone’”’ Editorial. Congress Athletics Exchanges Words of the Wise E, R. SAWYER Watchmaker and Manuiacturing Jeweler 629 Fourth Street Santa Rosa, Cal. THIRD STREET CYCLERY Dayton and » % Reading Standard Bicycles F, W. HESSE, Jr. 509 Third Street NEW TYE PHILAGE LPHIA UNEXCELLED $ 3°90 HATS Come and see our New Store. KEEGAN BROS, CONTENTS cee b ces ee ee, cena e cesses eee oe ere ee WM. BUSSE Successor to Dan Behmer Dealer in Guns, Ammunition, Cutlery, Fishing Tackle and Hardware Ill Main Street Koch’s Barber Shop 633 Fourth Street Fi: st shop west of Postoffice FIRST CLASS IN EVERY RESPECT MRS, J. J. CAMPBELL Stationery, Toys, Etc. 425 Fourth Street R. Hodgson Son Tailors 315 -B Street, near Fifth, Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Rochdale Go. (Incorporated) Greceries and Provisions, Fruit Flour end Feed N. E. Corner Third and B Streets Santa Rosa

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THE PORCUPINE FOR DECEMBER, 1904 HIGH SCHOOL Santa Rosa, Cal.

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Che Porcupine VOL. XI. SANTA ROSA, CAL., DECEMBER, 1904 NO. 4 Prudent People Purchase Prickly Porcupines Neptune’s Gift. Father, why is the storm so fierce? Why beat the waves so loud? Why flash on fiash of lightning comes From out the flying clouds? “Ah, lad, a storm does blow this night, Full high the wild waves be, But ne’er so high as long ago On the night you came to me. “Listen, my lad, and I shall tell A tale of one fierce strife; Of human skill ’gainst mighty strength, To save a human life. “The lightning flashed with blinding light, The thunder rolled on high, As though the mighty power above Were battling in the sky. “The wayes were running high this night As they have never run, And each would strike the mighty cliff As though each were a gun. “In the boat house the life-boat crew Sai motionless and grim, For well they knew that trials fierce This dreadful night would bring.