Virgil Junior High School - Forum Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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-,..- g PRICELESS By ALLEN HENDRY, January ll, 1931 I am a collector of old manuscripts. I always am looking for them. Some men have picked up old letters and have gotten thou- sands for them. One day I suddenly remembered I had not gone to a certain country on my trip over to Europe last year. I have always wanted to go to this country, and so I set sail for it as soon as the first boat going to it sailed. After about five days we landed in the country's capital. I was on one of the seven hills of the city. I was in a hurry to go to my hotel, so I took a short cut through a vacant lot. My foot struck a piece of metal sticking out of the ground. It was green and rusty. I dug it up and saw that it was a schoolboy's capsa. It was of bronze. There was a top on it. I took the top off. In the capsa there were some rolls of papyrus. I looked them over. They were all lessons except one. It looked like a diary. I could not find the name of the person who wrote it. The diary of the schoolboy said: Oct. 16, 64 B.C.-I decided to start my diary when I was almost six years old. So the first seven or eight incidents ' were written after they were performed. Oct. 15,70 B.C.-I was born early this morning. My mother is Magia Polla Maro. She is the daughter of Magius, the rich land owner. I think my father is an employee of his. Father used to be a potterg now he is a farmer. When he married Magia, Magius gave father an acre of land. Oct. 20,-70-B.C.-They named me today. I cannot say such big words as they can, so I don't know what my name is yet. I am happy. I wanted to be named, so I didn't cry all day. i451