The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1905-08-03
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= The Captain Of the FirG-Brigade.
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4 BY wINIFRED KIRKLAND.

| happen 10 De. ana you must be perfect
~ quiet In the line, and obey your cor
ridor captain just as II she had been
teacher, or Esther would be after her
and after you
And Esther allowed just one hun
dred and twenty-five seconds between
the first Changing of the corridor bell
and the assembling OF the entire
school at the rally. and IL you were
late! We did not much enjoy being
scolded and ordered about by Esther
and Esther's corridor captains, Just
girls like ourselves
Sometimes the drill would come at
night. perhaps just after we were all in
bed, and out we would all have TO
scramble, and rush to the rally. kim
onos and towels and hair all flying.
AS likely as not, this evening parade
would end on the fire-wall staircase.
There was one at each end of the build
where the wings join the main cor
ridor The staircase Is little narraw.
winding affair of iron, aud Il is shut
in by iron walls. and has sliding doors
OF sheet iron on every floor. The fire
wall stairs are chilly and narrow
there's just room to 20 down in single
nile. Sometimes, no matter how sleepy
and cross we were, Esther would keep
us marching up and down those stairs
and actually out-of-dOors when we got
to the bottom. until | really believe
we could have done il in our sleep.
IL grew 10 be awful tiresome. be-
Ieve even some of the teachers
thought Esther was too energetic, and
went to Mrs. Sinclair about It; but she
would not interfere, and she would not
let any of the teachers be present at
hre-drill. We were to have II all our
own way, or rather Esther was to
have II all her own way.
You may imagine our crowd was not
very nice to Esther at this time. But
no matter what you did or said to
Esther, she never seemed to notice; she
was so full of her old notions about
self-goyernment and school spirit and
the fire-brigade that she did not seem
to feel anything for herself at all.
One night lot of our girls were In
my room. and we Just decided then and
there that we would not put up with
II any longer. The next time those
old bells rang for 1ire-drill, we would
not go. Who In the world could make
us?
We did not have long TO wait. That
very night. just as had fallen to
sleep. all those bells suddenly went of
like mad. Sheer force Of habit pulled
me out OF bed aud into my kimono,
still too sleepy to know what | was
doing.
was taking up my towel when
remembered our resolution, and sat
down on the edge of the bed wide
awake and determined not to bulge.
l found afterward that exactly twenty
girls were acting In just the same way
all our third centre corridor. in fact.
could hear the girls scurrying out
over our heads. Out In our corridor
could hear the hall guards repeating.
Rally on the third north, fire-wall
stairsW Fire-wall stairs, and 1t was
as cold as Christmas!
Pretty soon came a pounding at the
doors. Nancy Voorhees,, our corridor
captain shouted:
Girls, girls. wake up! Didn't you
hear the bells2 Where are your"
Then the doors began Ia omen "oh
you are awaken cried Nancy Dno
hurryg
Nobody stirred. Nancy's face lookod
queer. "What is the matter yirls >"
We began TO come ont of onr rooms
and gathered together .We aren't
comlngr said.
Nancy looked AZ us then urned and
flew. An instant afterward we saw
Esther's red bath-robe come sending
down the corridor toward us. She
stopped a second because Miss Edger,