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because there are “ mongrel” pure-breds so far as vigor and profit-mak
ing capacity are concerned.
An average of 150 eggs per hen during the first year is good laying.
During the second year they will lay 25 per cent less eggs, and each
succeeding year correspondingly fewer.
GRADUATION
M IC H A E L M A C L E O D , zi/^Z Tribe; A laska
HE time has now come when we must say a last sad
farewell to the school that has been our home for so
many years of our lives; years in which have been
crowded much of joy and sorrow, much of work and
of play. Years, also, during which many friends
have been made, both in the world of books and that
other world about us.
There is a certain joy in graduating, or in being able to say that we
have accomplished the first period in the educational world, but to most
of us the sense of sorrow almost overcomes the joy. Friendly ties will
be broken, never to be renewed; new friendships must now be made
either in the business world or in a new school life. One feels already
that he is out in the world alone, and that henceforth he has to fight
his own way and shoulder his own responsibilities. There will be no
kind teachers to help us out of our difficulties and our friends will not
be near by to comfort us with ready sympathy.
W e never appreciate what jolly good times we are having until the
time conies when they are almost over. Therefore, I say to those who
are still in this school, make the most of your life here. Do your work
as best you can and do not spend any of your precious minutes in fruit
less worry. All too soon will come the sorrows and trials that contact
with the world brings. Get acquainted with your teachers as soon as
possible; they are the jolliest people that ever taught school.
Look about you among your fellow-students; there are many kindred
spirits among them. Next year we hope to see a great many Indian
boys and girls here preparing for their future lives.