Wellington High School - Duke / Hi Times Yearbook (Wellington, OH)

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THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON TOUR Thrs rs the year rn whrch the Duke of WeUrngton decrded to tour the school Berng a very quret duke he usually manages to enter classrooms wrthout berng seen He uses many modes of conveyance Among them number the usual tram plane and bus as well as some more extraordrnary ones rncludrng a unrcycle helrcopter strlts water skrs and rce skates Once he even trred to hrre a sea horse at the Y M C A pool but frndrng them all rented he took a flyrng saucer rnstead The Duke has been ery thorough on hrs tour of rnspectron for he has traveled to every class On a beautrful Wed nesday afternoon he prloted hrs rocket shrp to a chemistry lab class He drdn t need the shrp to leave as he rode out on a prece of flyrng glass He never had nerve enough to go back even to get hrs rocket shrp In the mechanrcal drawrng class whrch he vrsrted one nrnth perrod the crunch of hard candy was too much for hrs horse It made the anrmal so lrttery that he reared and smashed the buggy rnto a mrllron preces The Duke then hrred the rndustrral arts class to put hrs vehrcle back together agarn but rt was no use It was beyond reparr Havrng rurned two of hrs hrghly prrzed possessrons 1n two trrps the Duke decrded to look rnto a less dangerous classroom He chose the French II class because rt seemed absolutely harmless Upon enterrng rn hrs new 1910 Essex he thought he had been correct rn hrs assumption however yust then Prunella the French jrnx thoroughly frrghtened our Duke by tryrng to clnmb rnto hrs lap The Essex couldnt take the werght of two and srmply colla when Prunella hrt the runnrng board Needless to say the Duke never revrsrted the French room The Duke thought that possrbly he had chosen a bad trme so he took a weeks vacatron from hrs tour Resumrng hrs tour of rnspectron the Duke yourneyed by camel caravan to the shorthand class The lead camel fthe Duke sl thought the strange characters on the blackboard were the wrrtten language of hrs former Arab masters Thrs thought made the anrmal so homesrck that no amount of coaxrng could brrng hrm to lea e wrth the rest of the caravan The Duke recognrzrng a lost cause mounted another camel and rode back leavrng another of hrs conveyances behrnd The Duke tryrng to forget hrs sorrow over hrs lost camel then took a safarr mto darkest Latrn class Thrs proved a mrstake because nerther the Duke the gurdes nor the bearers could speak Latrn The Latrn students thrnkrng that the newcomers were dangerous dem nded as security the only elephant whrch had been brought along ffor the Dukes convenrencej Knowrng the temperaments of the strange people whom he had been meetrng the Duke srmply srghed and left hrs favorrte elephant wrth the latest group Strll determrned to see as much as possrble of the school rn the short perrod of nrne months the Duke drove a tractor to the vocational agrrculture class where he expected to see rrch frelds wrth an abundance of crops and huge barns frlled wrth beautrful anrmals of all srzes What he actually encountered was a small schoolroom wrth few puprls and no anrmals The Duke seerng the need for rmprovement rn thrs department left the tractor to grve these students a start rn the rrght drrectron and departed on foot A flyrng trrp to the teachers offrces rn a blrmp was hrs frnal stop Here he obtarned full reports on all phases of school lrfe rncludrng the places whrch he hadnt had trme to vrsrt durrng the school year Satrsfred wrth all he had seen and heard rn the very adventurous nrne months the exhausted Duke retrred to hrs home and resolved never to leave agarn especrally to take a tour 4 - a v 9 1 y - , ' . . . . , , , V . ' . . . . . , . 9 9 , . . a . . , y y 9 r . . . . , , . I . , . . . , . . y . , . , . . - ' V . 1 1 v ' D r s ' 1 9 9 ' Y . . r 1 a 1 s l - 9 9 1 ' 1 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . , . y 9

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