Sheridan High School - Bronc Yearbook (Sheridan, WY)

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12 THE OCKSHEPERIDA In the year 1593 ever parish was made responsible for the sapply of its own deserving poor. Chancer lived in the year 1300-1400. He was one of the greatest English poets alter the Mormons came to England. An unknown hand threw a harrow at Rufus and killed him dead on the spot. Adverbs ending in where are somewhere, nowhere, earthenware. Stirling was famous for its sovereigns, who used to be crowned there. A sovereign is still called a “pound Stirling.” A volcano is a burning mountain with a creature in it. Subjects have a right to partition the king. Alfred Austin was chosen by the queen as poet laureate. He said. “If you let me make the songs of tne nation, I care not who sings them.” The electrical prince of Bavaria claimed the throne of Spain. During the reformation every clergyman was compelled to receive thirty-nine articles. Some of the West India Islands are subject to torpedoes. The imperfect tense is used (in French) to express future action in past time wnich does not take place at all. Becket put on a camel-air shirt and his life at once became dangerous. Arabia has many syphoons and very bad ones: it gets into your hair even with your mouth shut. BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY. A scientific fellow has drawn up a boarding house geometry that is noteworthy: Some of his definitions run as follows: 1. All boarding houses are the same boarding houses. 2. Hoarders in the same boarding house, and on the same floor, are equal to one another in the matter of price, but not in the matter of outlook. 3. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. 4. The landlady of a boarding house is a parallelogram: an oblong, angular figure, which cannot b? described, but is equal to anything. 5. All the other rooms being taken, a single room is said to be a double room. Among postulates and propositions the following are worthy of consideration: 1. A pie may be produced any number of times. 2. The landlady may be reduced to her lowest terms by a series of propositions. 3. A bes-line may be made from one boarding house to another. 4. The clothing of a boarding house bed, although extended indefinitely in both directions, will never meet. 5. Any two meals at a boarding house are together less than one square meal. THE NEW SCHOOLHOUSE. The new High School building On Nielsen Heights hill. Is a beautiful structure And suit you, it will. Has five nice large rooms And two spacious halls. With a basement so roomy, You can scare find the walls. We now have steam heat, Which surely seems fine To throw those old stoves Clear out of line. A place to keep clean. If you haven’t been told. For we have two kinds of water— One hot and one cold. In case of emergencies You should have to call. We have a new telephone. Downstairs in the hall. New are the seats And the blackboards are, too: And to all ugly pencil marks. We say, “skiddoo!” If you keep this quiet— We have new teachers too. And like every one. You bet we do. First, there’s Miss Venters, Graceful and tall— If you knew her. You couldn’t be naughty at all. Then there’s Miss Kocken She’s awfully sweet. The way she can teach English Is hard to beat. Now comes the n »w principal. By name. Mister Knapp: And you can’t catch him In no easy trap. Of all the dear teachers. In any large crowd: Of Misses Stover and Whittier, Every pupil f els proud. You’re anxious, no doubt. Of professor, to hear: And your ears you must close. If we call him just “dear.” Now I must close And you’ll guess the rest. That the Sheridan High School Is the very best. —SENIOR. ’09.

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14 THE OCKSHEPERIDA NOT INTROSPECTIVE. If you want a load of alfalfa or The minister of a large parish in a certain western diocese had for some time been much troubled by the scandalous gossip that seemed to be occupying the minds of a portion of his flock, and. after exercising a great amount of tact and perseverance at last succeeded in running to earth the originator of most of the settlement’s society slander. The guilty one was a regular attendant at thz schoolhoase services and the minister knew that should he take him to task personally and individually, he would inevitably lose a sheep—albeit a black one; so he decided to sermonize him. Accordingly, a special discourse was prepared and. the following Sunday afternoon, literally hurled at the offending member as he sat on a desk in a corner of the schoolroom. Everybody present appeared to fully appreciate the situation, and, at the c!ose of the service, departed quietly and somewhat thoughtfully for home. All except the black sheep, who lingered to assist parson” to hitch up h s team, a id to remark: That wer’ a fine sermon, s r. 1 bet that hit some on ’em pretty hard.”—Bellman. BOUQUETS AND BRICKTOPS. Comments on the first issue of The Ocksheperida. Congratulations. —Everybody. Why, I have not even seen it yet.”— Freshman. We did fine. —Ocksheperida staff. It reads like the Denver Post. —Somebody. It com s up to the Lincoln High School I aper. —Miss Venters. They don’t even publish clippings from the Nebraska paper. —Mr. Knapp. Limericks. 'l here was a young man named bard Who forgot that a teacher stood guard. A note he did pass— To a pretty lass— And now he declares his luck hard. There wras a young man nam ‘d Brooks Who is not as bad as h? Iooks. In spite of his frown— At oar little town— Which doesn’t compare with far eastern nooks. Many complaints have been sent in to the editor requesting sensational items. With this fact in view. Miss Eller Wheel-cox has promised an article, which will soon appear, Under what circumstances is it proper to murder your teachers?” timothy hay, call H. K. ADAMS Phone 801. The Old, Old Story. Miss Whittier—Translate: Forte Dux in Aro. Smart Boy—Forty ducks in a row. Freshman—Miss Venters, where is the Nile? Miss Venters—(absentmindedly)—In Nebraska. 4 4 4 4 4 4»4 4»4 4 4»4 4 4 y mall 4 +Jays f %----------—----- M ❖ z t ♦ : i % 4 HE WANTS YOUR DRUGTRADE v V : 4 4 4 4 4 •I 4 4 ❖ 4» ❖ 4 4 Everything in 'porting Goods Pennants ❖ 4 4 ❖ 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 •: rennanxs rt c 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 , 4 4 4 '« 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4