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THE
CHEMAWA
AM ERICAN
And some one would say, “ We are on a sand bar” . I got out of bed
and went out to see what was the matter and found that we were on a
sand bar and that the boat had to stay there for six davs. When day
light came the wind began to blow hard. While we were at breakfast
the First Mate came into the diningroom and said that the passengers
would have to go ashore, which was about 200 yards off from the boat.
W hen he said that, my sister quit eating and I think she was frighten
ed. I did not get frightened because I could swim that far.
After breakfast we got ready to go ashore; they put us in a small boat
with four seaman and the second mate; then we left the ship. When
we got ashore we were very wet; I did not care much about myself, but
I did care about my sister. We slept ashore that night, then the next
morning they took us thirty miles south of where we were wrecked; the
name of the place is Ketchikan, Alaska.
\\ e stayed in Ketchikan six days; on the evening of the sixth day we
left for Seattle on the same boat on which we were wrecked, the tide
having floated it off the sand bar.
Sunday, February 3, at four o’clock, we reached Seattle, and the next
day we were at Chemawa. It took twenty-one days to come from Ko
diak, Alaska, toChemawa, and I tell you friends I was glad to settle
down and to know that sister was safe.—Micheál McLeod. Junior Class:
Keni Tribe.
A V R O R A S O C IE T Y
T he Aurora Society has been studying the American poets and the
following program has l>een rendered:
O liver W endell H olmes
Early Life of Holmes
The True Humorist
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Recitation—“ The Height of the Ridiculous”
School Life
College Life
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Recitation -
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Doctor Holmes
The Autocrat
Recitation—“ The Last Leaf”
Song
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Vernie Brown
Alma Nelson
Minnie Boye
Louise Dionne
Marina Siftsoff
Marie Shaisnikoff
Amanda Lilijgren
Grace Brown
Rose O’Brien
Members