The Burro, Yearbook of Mineral Wells High School, 1922 Page: 104
[122] p. : ill., ports. ; 27 cm.View a full description of this yearbook.
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= fTUfE BURRO
THE RAVING
I was nodding wearily at midnight,
Having a fight with myself, whether to study Latin or undress and go to
bed,
And my conscience kept calling me sleepy-head-
But my lazy self could not help thinking of that bed.
It was midnight, as I have said before,
And the night wind was mingled with the cracking of the floor;
Each plank seemed to have a ghostly squeak all its own,
And I shuddered, sitting there alone.
When bang! I like to have fallen from my chair,
And there was a tight feeling about the roots of my hair;
Then I relaxed, for it was only the clock on the dining room shelf,
And I felt humiliated and ashamed of myself.
I counted the strokes as they floated through the door,
And it was just eight o'clock-no less-no more,
In sudden anger I threw my Virgil headlong upon the floor,
And in five minutes my mother heard me snore.
LLOYD BOULDIN.
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Mineral Wells High School (Mineral Wells, Tex.). The Burro, Yearbook of Mineral Wells High School, 1922, yearbook, 1922; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299181/m1/108/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineral Wells Heritage Association.