Arizona republican., 1920-02-15
A VACATION INCIDENT

| A VACATION INCIDENT It was two days after Christmas and everyone was enjoying the vaca- ton that goes with the best day in the year. On the Murdock farm in the backwOodS of Maine, there was a large party of young people, several school girl friends of Jane Nurdock and two boy friends of Allen Murdock. There had been tramps through the woods, sleigh rides on moonlight nights and coasting for their entertainment. This day the boys had gone skating on the river, about a mile from the house and the girls stayed at home to make pill lows of pine needles and to cook mo- lasses candy.
 The girls were just debating whether to eat all the candy or to leave some for the boys, when the telephone Gang and Mrs, Murdock went to answer it. She came back looking pale and fright ened The girls were panic stricken at what she told them. A woman who lived several miles from their farm had phoned to say shat a catamount had been seen in the woods and was headed in their direction.
 The boys were off skating without any guns or protection of any sort and there were no men around the place because they had gone off into the forest to get fire wood. The men were safe because they always carried guns in the forest. But the boys had to be warned. Jane seized a light rifle and put some extra cartridges in her coat pocket and set out through the woods toward the river. Upon reaching the river she fired several shots and hear ing these the boys soon joined her. They all reached home safely and the catamount did not visit them after all.
 MARJORIE LANDRUM,
 English I.
 Phoenix. Arizona. (Notice how breathlessly the words of the following poem hurry on, suit ing well the words to the meaning)
 GYM
 Hurry, Hurry. girls, or you'll be late, And that would be a terrible fate, Because you know Miss Hartman She will not wait,
 Fall in'' Measure distancei" Answer to roll-call!
 All this in just two seconds; Believe me. We hurry when she
 beckons.
 "Attention" Mark time," "One-tw woone-two'-
 march,
 In two's or fours or singles Oh, what time we have Tn that old gymnasium F1nally comes that familiar, And l think wellliked word
 "Excused."
 Gladys Benton Tempe Normal Fl Paso, Texas. Second Year
 WINDY BILL
 Windy Bill was the nick name of a certain character who lived in the town of Casa Grande. His real name was Fitzherald, but he was called Windy Bill because he never seemed to tire of talking. telling sometimes jokes and sometimes things from imagina- tion. He liked children and was often seen with two or three in the ice cream parlor.
 He was about six feet two and a lit- tie bumped in the shoulders. He gen. erally wore broad brimmed hat, blue 1 shirt, and leather boots. He liked and regarded with pride his l nickname Windy Bill.''
 Hubert Grizzard
 Sacaton, Tempe Normal Arizona Second Year | (The writers of the two following pieces will notice that their compost tions have been slightly changed. This | was done for the sake of condensation | and unity.)
 AT SANTA MONICA
 Standing on the veranda of the Win dermere hotel in Santa Monica. Cali | fornia, you can look far off in the dis I tance and see many wonderful sights, | WHICH the WeSB alone can produce. The first thing you see is the vast ex- panse of blue, roaring, tossing and E tumbling-the wonderful Pacific ocean. Then upon looking the second time and closer, you can see far off many large ships, shining against the horizon. To- ward the north are mountains. which, r when the sun strikes them at a cer- tain angle. display every color of the rainbow.
 Verva G. Monette,
 Freshman, P. V. H. S.,
 Phoenix. Arizona.
 CAcTI OF ARIZONA
 One of the most beautiful sights to Il me is the many different kinds of cacti that grow on the capitol grounds of in small plot devoted entire ly to cacti. There are so many diff ferent kinds that it is quite confusing green, some more green, or blue, than others. Some are covered with long white thorns, others will small prick ly thorns. One kind, noticed in par ticular. was outlined in yellow: an- other had egg shaped. reddish-purple This fruit the Indians peel and boil and eat. Another kind was the prickly pear with which Burbank has experi- mented until it grows without prickles 50 that it can be used for food by the cattle. within the beautiful capitol grounds, is great attraction to eastern visitors. O whom the desert is a great and awe inspiring place.
 Betty Bergman,
 P. V. H. s.
 Phoenix, Arizona.
 MY FLIGHT Seventeen miles out of Los Angeles s the "Sid Chaplin Aviation Field" which is owned by Sidney Chaplin, the