The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1912-07-20
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Saturday, July 20, 1912
CLASS PROPHECY.

School, May "a, 1912:
Ladies and gentlemen, it affords Inc
great pleasure to be here tonight ln ed
this capacity. You cannot grasp the fir
moaning If nv words unless you are he
graduate yourself and have experF IL
enced this peculiar sensation tnaO de
+bri,ls averv graduate ON this particu- til
Lar night. II
am here tonight to propheSy tno lc
futures of nv classmates; but before tc
7 express myself accordingly, l Woulo I
like to let you know what my opm' "
ion is of my subject before l give p
Won a chance to form one OF me- 0
I am very averse towards writing,
prophecies or prophesying for three z
reasons; first, because l am not d
prophet; second, because am some 1
vbat sunerstitious about being charI',
cd nv insects and animals; thirdly ,
hecause I don't believe in rushing,
matters, but i'm taking them as they
come.
Rut to get to facts-well, one day
not long ago while was resting near
a small stream under large snauy
tree, I espied crawfish hole about
two feet from the place where was
sitting. This hole aroused my curlos-
ity. as l had never seen one In tnl'
Mace before. AS I was about to poke
q stick into the hole to see II any
i one was at home, happened 10
glance into small pool a little way
4 down the stream. There | saw a
large crawfish struggling with good
q sized water snake, and instead OF
knocking at my neighbor's door as l
intended, I went to- his rescue. Wnen'
q with little difficulty, l had despatch
ed the reptile and rescued my neigh
d hor from the grasp of the monster,
q took him up into my hands and re-
i turned to my seat. When l mad COM
- fortablv seated myself on the log
! looked into the eyes Of my frlend-
Il the crawfish-and, to my surprise, lit
thanked me gratefully and asked M
. what l would like to know? Whel
had recovered from my astoni7h
ment I answered that there were
good many things that | would INK
to know. He replied that he coul
tell me only one question, so toI
him that | would like to look lnI
the fnt,1re, He looked at me and tn
expression in his eyes put me uhoe
the impression that he was smliln
at me. AIT the end of a few SeccndS
during which he looked at me CO.
tinually, fell into what seemed
me to be a state Of coma. pee
liar sensation passed over me anu
seemed to get smaller and smaile
. until I was so small that | could ed
ICE lily enter the home of my nelghDe
WIZ In nv state of drowsineSS | felt tn
all of my strength had left me. II
crawfish came up and, grasping
with his claws, put me on his bac
and with my transporter going DaC
wards I commenced my journey
VI to the future.
50 When I had been carried down t
A crawfish hole what seemed to me
he about or feet, | was pltch
~ into a small hole and began to I
"a downward In some way, l seem
WI to think | would get down all rig
ls for I made no attempt to eaten Il
self Suddenly, to my surprise,
landed into the middle of large
which had four doors. When l I
IL carefully looked the whole place
or 7 heard a noise through the
y we ening, which l had dropped, sayl'
q 0ue "Go into, and open, the first doc
PEI 7 Immediately opened the door, a
to be ~, .,,r,r;se 7 became nv natu
ket' SEM. AS closed the door ben
equest w. ..oroa in establishment 70
e COZ found myself standing in the lror
Il COZ of some very important persons
Will I looked into a corner OF the r'
and was surprised when l recog
Fam' ed my old classmate, Reeve Barr
direct u,.4;-r - bis desk When he loo
I'D, he recognized me Instantly
7 ter We had greeted each other al
tionately, he babe me take
nearby. did so, and naturally
- spoke as if we had been toge
,s. always instead of being sepaf
for almost thirty years. told
n hills to 60 ON to work while lo'
,a1 ads around as if I were in the hap
, line dropping in on him at his Office
benefit ery day. He returned to his
No ads and l picked up one OF the