"D'ya really mean it?" Rog yelled. "Sure do," Mrs. McCleod said. "You go get 'em and bring 'em all over here." As Rog ran down the steps and across the street, he saw Dick's English racer in the driveway. He saw Dick running out of the driveway with a kitten under his arm. Dick put the kitten in his basket and jumped on his bike. As he started to go, he yelled, "G'bye, Rog, thanks fer th' cat!" Rog's head burned. A strong pulse hammered at his temple. As Dick went past him, Rog threw himself against the bike and tipped it over. As Dick fell, he scraped his arm on a sharp edge of the handle bar where the rubber grip had been, and he screamed. Blood feathered out from the cut and ran down his arm. Rog stared at Dick for only a moment. His legs felt weak and wabbled beneath him. Before Dick could get up, Rog grabbed the kitten that had leaped from the bike and had hidden under a bush. Rog yelled, "I told ya, Dick, ya just can't have one!" Then he petted the kitten he was holding and muttered, "These cats are promised." Rog walked toward the garage. He felt himself shaking, arid he was out of breath. Inside, he stooped over the box, reached in, and picked up the other kittens. Their warm bodies felt good against his chest. A kitten held up one of its paws and playfully clawed Rog's shirt. Rog cuddled them for a while in his arms. He sighed and started to walk slowly toward Mrs. McCleod's house. RIDDLE Francia Oborn Who Stands and stands Or maybe runs in circles Like yellow chicks around the barn And looks and looks With rainy eyes At red clay cliffs That rise and rise (But crumbled in his fingers once) And cries and cries But never tries Again? 12 EDITORIAL Writing, particularly creative writing, involves statements of ideas, images, and experiences. When these statements are transferred from one intelligence to another, we have communication. Unless there is some vehicle to perform the transfer, the statement dies. SCRIBULUS has been re-established because your editors feel that the statements of Weber College students are important enough to warrant a vehicle of transfer other than written assignments in English classes or conversations over coffee cups in the T. U. B. Our writer on the cover is a composite of the best writers at Weber College; his book, their best writings. If SCRIBULUS spring 1959, can fulfill its vehicle's purpose by communicating to the reader an idea, an image, an experience, then its present is justified, and its dedication can be to its future. 13