Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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SPECTATOR 39 hidden in one of the slave huts, and set, it up. They trim- med it and hung the presents on it. The next morning when the old couple got down stairs the first sounds that greeted them were two “Merry Christ- mas,” and when they got to the sitting room, there was the Christmas tree, glittering with its fragile ornaments. The old couple then took off their gifts after they had recov- ered from the surprise. The first was a large white envel- ope addressed to Aunt Margaret and Uncle Charles and containing the receipted mortgage. The old people looked at each other with happy faces but when they looked for the girls, they were gone. They had slipped upstairs. Fun reigned in the dignified old house that day and evening. After the girls had left, two very happy old peo- ple sat at the fire and talked and at Hilldale two very happy young people talked in bed until late in the night. When Betty returned to the North, she said that it was the happiest Christmas she had ever spent. There is a standing invitation at the old home for her and many a happy day has she spent there. Friends John Louis Geis T7 There were once two dogs who became good friends in a peculiar manner. The one, a fair sized Boston Terrier or “Bud as he was called, was owned by a wealthy family of New York by the name of Long. The dog was given by Mr. Long to his daughter. The cur had been disowned ever since the death of his master two years before. His only home was an old broken box back of a meat market. Two weeks before Christmas, on a cold brisk day, the big auto of Mr. Long swung around' the snow-covered drive to the front steps of the family residence. The front door was opened and Bud came bounding out of the house follow- ed by his mistress, who walked to the auto, the dog unwill- ingly following.

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38 SPECTATOR The subject was dropped and they soon retired, but Betty could not sleep as she thought of how the old couple dreaded the losing of their old home. All at once an idea flashed into her head and after thinking awhile she drop- ped off to sleep. The next morning, she and Mr. Gray walked down and she boarded the train, and when she reached her destination, her plan was matured. When the train stopped at Hilldale, there was Kitty waiting. The moment Betty appeared. Kitty ran to her. “I’ve been pahfectly distracted. I didn’t know what awful accident might have happened. I’m so glad to have you heah, that I don’t know what to do. It seems ages since I saw you last. Don’t you all remembah me standing on the platfohm waving my handkerchief and you all wav- ing yoahs from the train? And how we almost cried ouh eyes out. You all must tell me all about yoahself. But heah I am talking as if I were wound off. I’ll go and get yoah trunks sent up. Get into the carriage,” and off she flew. “Wait! Wait!” cried Betty. “I want to send a tele- giam to father.” They went to the telegraph office and Betty sent a long telegram to her father. Then they went to the carriage and set out for home. Not long after, Mr. Marsden, seated in his office, re- ceived a telegram from his daughter asking for a large sum of money. It gave her whole plan in full. Mr. Marsden remembered that his father had spoken of a Charles Gray who had saved his life in the war; he gladly sent the money. On the way home Betty unfolded her plan to Kitty and the following afternoon found a large pine tree on its way to the old couple, and that evening found the girls, laden With baskets, setting out for the same place. They spent a happy evening with the old people, who retired early. The girls got the Christmas tree, which was

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40 SPECTATOR As the auto spun through the crowded streets of the Metropolis, Bud seeing the number of dogs running around loose thought how fine it would be to do the same. The auto zigzaged here and there, dodging a street car, then a nation and stopped. The chauffeur opened the door and Bud nation and stopped. The chauffeur opened the door and uBd and his mistress came out. Bud turned around just in time to see a large bull dog disappear in an alley. He ran down the street and looking into the alley, saw the bull dog turn around, eye him a minute, and then run toward him. As the dog approached. Bud heard him growl savagely. In less than a minute the bull dog was upon him. Bud, taken by surprise, put up the best fight he could but was soon over- come and fell panting and bleeding. But he had a friend in need. Looking up, he saw another dog, a common cur, attacking the bull dog. The fight lasted only a few moments, when the bull dog ran down the alley, yelping and suspending one lame paw in the air. Then the victor came to Bud and seemed to say, “Come, I will help you.” But followed him to his broken box. As soon as Bud’s mistress had discovered his absence, she ran about the store looking for him but could not find him. She inquired of.the chauffeur if he had seen the dog but he had not. She enetered the auto and rode to the Po- lice Station, notifying them of her loss, and then drove home. For several days two boys had seen the cur carrying bits of meat to the box back of the meat market and on the day before Christmas as they returned from a day’s sport on the ice, they saw the cur again disappear in the box. Deciding to investigate, they found Bud in the box, dragged him out, and saw the name of Long on the collar. Knowing of the reward offered, they decided to take him home and return him to Miss Long the following day. In spite of their efforts to keep him away, the cur kept following them. Christmas dawned cold and blustering. The boys arose