West Deer High School - Coalagra Yearbook (Russellton, PA)

Page 6 text:

A Ballad of John Silver We were schooner-rigged and rakish, with a long and lissome hull, And we flew the pretty colors of the crossbones and the skullg We'd a big black Jolly Roger flapping grimly at the fore, And we sailed the Spanish Water in the happy days of yore. We'd a long brass gun amidships, like a well-conducted ship, We had each a brace of pistols and a cutlass at the hipg It's a point which tells against us, and a fact to be deplored, But we chased the goodly merchantmen and laid their ships aboard. Then the dead men fouled the scuppers and the wounded filled the chains And the paing work all was spatter-dashed with other people's brainsg She was boarded, she was looted, she was scuttled till she sank, And the pale survivors left us by the medium of the plank. O! Then it was fwhile standing by the taffrail on the poopj We could hear the drowning folk lament the absent chicken coopg Then, having washed the blood away, we'd little else to do Than to dance a quiet hornpipe as the old salts taught us to. O! The fiddle on the fo'c's'le, and the slapping naked soles, And the genial Down the middle, Jake, and curtsy when she rolls! Mlith the silver sea around us and the pale moon overhead, And the lookout not a-looking and his pipe bowl glowing red. Ah! The pig-tailed, quidding pirates and the pretty pranks we played, All have since been put a stop to by the naughty Board of Trade, The schooners and the merry crews are laid away to rest, A little south the sunset in the Islands of the Blest. John Masefield 2

Page 5 text:

i' 'xl:', A-:Ein 1 271. fu X K S:-':'ZlaT.l: L O I-O 1 u '- v 1 I .5 , f Of . , 1 3 f-fj.-- .. . Q- 1' ' fjfff inf.- ' . , . , b , .. -- 33.11.11 I. f'.'2 1.'- '.? :Q - ' -1-.1-..--.Q -:, 1- - -49,1-f , ' f ', :':1v i :.'0'1.. -' W f..' x . -R 'o 4' 4WWI U0Lo1l'.l'a'.':7aA'A'a'A'n'a'n'A'mr4'.'4g0'.'m':R'l'Zlvi ':. , , V: ' Z xg! :I I I 0 t A 7 .jf -g. 1 W 'las o1'l.Qusu,w vp 1- au.ru'q'n'g gpi.51,g'Q5,5-u-pn-5-cvvti, , 3 , - , f-' -' ' ' '. 1' , -:V 'S'-j'3 1. M -.'.: hast HUGE ,iff ' ' FYIOLQLQZQIIZQLQLOLOIOXQKCYOIKIUOZOTIYCMODLUQI,otctourmoziq hz! 7K o ': . 5 110 Jay if Z! n.- 'B' l'Qff.YQf.f.II.fl.1fl IZEQJI.'.1.'Qf.'.'.. Q:.'.tf' -1 , ':L'1.- Q . , rj'- , -, 5., ' . ' ' -.- g -. .. 1 . g 'fin A. C5 t -'Olff ' TO of Q55 :Q fir' 9 ' ff .l'r. --A'-'-H---'-'f..'.-5 '2-. .' '- ' 3' .I -ul.. g' . .. 1.5 , , 5 ','. ,O' '1 I . ,.. . - 1. Z. , , nf. . - -- ' ,I , '9 . K- 1 15 '. a., '-,' :-O. ' Ov 1 .l 1 , , 1' a ' ..: : - , ,- -J -f.::. . 'Q N yt. v ' P II' , -21 ,.. ,- - .. ,, - 'L - ' . ., a Y - .- -1 sf.. r' a u .,' f.,4.' .. - - .- .,., . A.. x , 1,1 .. ,..1,-,..,. I x O . .,-.' '-, . 4 4 N r

Page 7 text:

THE UUA AURA Puhlisllvd lly The Senior Class of I953 West Ileer Township High Seluml 9' 4 N Q QQXX 'D ! s 3 Q I we -' APA I 5 WVQKZPMCQX Yi af' Allegheny llounly 5 K l'i-nnsylvamia 3