Shields High School - Patriot Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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Mabel Hanna French H. C. Henderson Agriculture Hilda Howe Domestic Science Kathryn Kessler Latin Mina McHenry English 3. R. Mitchell Manual Training Arithmetic C. H. Phillips (Science Esther Small Botany Geography LENORE SWAILS English Physiology Gladys Tilly Mathematics

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MARY VIRGINIA BROWN. AD it not been for little Denny Gorgan, Zandra Ma- horney, who lived next door to him, might have con- sidered her lot a hard one. Zandra was, as she her- self explained, A perfect orphan, with not even so much as a grandmother, ' ' while Denny had a drunken father, a step-mother, a step-brother, and oceans and oceans of other steps in his family. She was sorry for him and would often tell him stories to take his mind away from conditions around him. She would tell him how little boys who had been good all the year would write a letter to Santa Claus, telling him what they wanted most, and how he would usually bring it. As that was last Fourth of July, Zandra (she was called that because her mistress thought that Alexandria was not a fitting name for a kitchen maid) thought that surely by Christmas poor little lame Denny would forget all about it ; but he did not. He had asked for a horse and when Zandra asked him if two handkerchiefs would not do, he drew his sleeve across his upturned nose and replied, I don ' t nade ' em and I want a harse. Poor Zandra ! What could she do ! She had only fifty cents to her name, and that she had seen Mr. Gorgan drop from his dirty handkerchief, when he had told Father Cassidy how sick he had been. He had been so sick, he said, that he had been seein ' things. First it was fleas, then it was bumble bees, and last it was eats, ad- mitted Mr. Gorgan. You see, ' things ' get larger and larger and more dangerous, said Father Cassidy, If you don ' t stop drinking pretty soon, your days are numbered. Then the two men had walked on, leaving the fifty cent piece in the grass. Right then and there Zandra decided that Denny should have a Christmas gift purchased with his own father ' s money. But how could a harse, a rocking harse big enough for Denny, be purchased for fifty cents! She might go to a second-hand store and perchance find something there that would answer the purpose of a horse, or she might purchase one on the installment plan, but when would she, a mere kitchen maid ever pay the remainder ! Then one morning, as she was hanging up clothes, she happened to think that hobby horses were things not easily broken, but more easily outgrown. Around in the neighborhood there might be a hobby horse that had been out-