The Burro, Yearbook of Mineral Wells High School, 1914 Page: 75
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A SENIOR STUDY PERIOD
'Neoptolemus was returned from,'-O, what does 'cavo'
mean? I know it but I'll look it up. Goodness, Stella, what
do you want? My pen? Well, you broke it last time. I wish
Mr. Dinsmore hadn't moved Jo Deck; she was such a com-
fort when I was studying. Callie, quit shaking my desk; be-
tween you and Emma;) I don't see how any one can write.
'Cavo'-O yes, that means 'a cave,' of course. That's easy.
I wish one of these boys would put down the shade. Why,
the other day I had to get up in a chair and pull it down
and I almost broke my neck. What do you want, Emma?
Can't you see I'm studying? She did? Well, I see them to-
gether all the time. Did you know Mr. Patison walked to
school with Miss Miller this morning? I think the faculty
should practice what they preach, don't you. Sh! There
comes Mr. Dinsmore. No, sir, I wasn't talking. I just dropped
my pencil, and Emma handed it to me. Stella, I wish you
would not be so hateful and not) let me know when he is
coming. I always tell you. O, that awful Latin! What in
the world does 'squalentem' mean! O fiddle! It looks like
a participle, and I just hate participles. Say, Maggie, wasn't
that a cute man with those class rings and pins today, but
didn't he have a big mouth? Why actually, when he opened
it, I thought I was going to fall in. What? I don't live in a
glass house, thank you, and I wasn't throwing stones, either.
Hateful thing! I wish Jo would move back. She always
agrees with me on everything. The sweet thing! O I cer-
tainly must study, or Mr. Patison will make me translate it
after school; but then I wouldn't mind that so much. 'Tolia
voce refert-O tergue qua terque beati'-O, what a perfect-
ly lovely line to scan! I hope he lets me scan it. What did
you say, Callie? I don't know, but I suppose she feels
gloomy because Mr. Furman hasn't been here for nearly a
month. Te, he, he! Say, don't you think Mr. Patison would
make a good dancer? The way he throws his shoulders when
he walks suggested the idea to me. I'd love to see him and
Miss Miller dance together. Mercy! Don't you tell any one
what I said, Callie, punch S. A. and tell her to punch Har-
vey. Say, Harvey, when are you going to get our class rings?
I've been massaging my hands every day this week, so they
will look pretty. O yes, I know they-they don't need it, but
then I would like for them to look as pretty as the ring. Lon
Cowling, if you and Joe Hopkins don't stop rolling that ball
up and down the aisle, I'll have a fit. You had better go
back to the Fish. No one can study for you. O I simply
must get this Latin. Let's see-"They abide by these things
unmoved in these places not give way in order; but, when
the gentle breezes smite the door, the hinges being turned, it
scatters the tender leaves nor does Scylla care at length to
catch the same leaves flitting about the rock cave." There!
That's a good translation. I know no one else will have it
that well. Say, Emma, watch Farris at noon and see if he
does not smile out the window at a Fish. He always does.
What? You've got a trade lost for me, Eunice? Well, who
would have thought it! O, of course I have one for you. I
always have-honest, but I just can't think of it now. You'll
have to take it on my credit. He did. O! I don't believe it.
You're just joking anyway. Did you hear that, Emma? Of
course you know he was just joking. O well, nothing like
that worries me anyway. Some girls would have the big
head. O there's the gang, and I haven't all' my Latin. I
don't see why for I've studied all the period. I don't mind
staying after school anyway, if some of those other girls will
let Mr. Patison alone and not try to stay, too, just because I
have to stay. D. G., '14.
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