Hallowell High School - Venture Yearbook (Hallowell, ME)

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40 The VENTURE Daddy Longlegs-R. Trask. Man Size-C. Payson. The Rough Neck--G. Greely. Get Your Man-M. Turner. Blunders of a Bashful Man-E. Carter. A Batch of Smiles-L. Stephenson. Down the Road-By Foote. Revolutionary Days-By Morgan. How to Swim-By Fish. How to be a Minister-By Church. How to be Little-By Small. A Cavalier-By Beau Doin. Methods of Sprinting-By Chase. The Whirlwind of Youth-By Young., HEARD IN LATIN IV Erycis tibi terga remittof' QI will put away the gauntlets of Eryx for you.D Kellogg ftranslatingjz Eryx put away his skin. Bullock: I was told when I was young that I would become feeble- minded if I did not stop smoking. Wright: Oh, why didn't you stop? D. Duplisea fat a gamejz Isn't it just wonderful how our pitcher hits the other team's bat every time? Charlie: Yes, dear. J. Beaudoin: What has a tennis racquet got two sides for? Miss Small Cin Civicslz Water- house, what is a borough? Waterhouse: It's one of them little donkeys. Jack fat the floristsb: I want some flowers, I'm going calling. Florist: Oh, then you want some caulifiowersf' Holbrook: I always study my Latin in the morning so that I don't have to remember it so long. SAMPLES OF OUR EXCUSES AT H. H. S. Please excuse Henry for being absent last Thursday. It was so rainy that he couldn't get out of the door-yard. .t Please excuse Jimmie's absence last Tuesday on account of death. Please excuse Johnnie for not be- ing at school yesterday. He was not there. From a Freshman Civics paper: The League of Nations is where the nations go out every three hours. Miss Haskell: What is a stag ? D. G., '30s A river. Miss Haskell: Tell the story of George Eliot's life. M. T.: He was a woman. ' How the teachers rank according to the Seniors: I 30 for nerve. 70 for blufling. il.-. Wanted : A pair of stilts-G. Foote. Someone to love-A. Vigue. Miss Small Cin freshman civicsjz What happened in 1820 ? Miss Burns: Maine, Patrequin: My grandfather has a well 108 feet deep. Achorn: How near the top is the water ? Patrequin: I don't know: I've never been in.

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' 7 I iw JA ' . CALLED ANYWAY Weep and you're called a baby, Laugh and you're called a fool, Yield and you're called a coward, Kick and you're called a mule. Smile and they'll call you silly, Frown and they'll call you gruff, Put on a front like a millionaire And somebody calls your ,blufi'. 27 Freshman: With feet like yours you should get a job with the govern- ment. Holbrook: Doing what ? Freshman: Stamping out forest fires. Why are you late for breakfast, sir ? asked Johnny's father, as John- ny slid quietly into his chair. Well, you see, explained Johnny, when you called me, I was having a mighty funny dream, and I just slept a few minutes longer to finish it Q H. Miller: Have I the pleasant expression you require? Photographer: Perfectly, sir. H. Miller: Then shoot quick g it hurts my face. Miss Small: And where was Sheridan when he took his famous ride? Student: On a horse. What is ratio? asked Mr. Gil- patric in Algebra. 17 Ratio is proportion, said the Freshman. What is proportion ? Proportion is ratio. But what are ratio and propor- tion? Each other. SPEED How are you getting on at school, boy? Fine. We're learning words of four cylinders now. Wanted: The ancestors of Proko- py Dawidowicz Duda, resident of Wies Kozun, poczta Drohyezin, Pow- iat Kobrin.-J. J. H. THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT Miss Haskell: There are excep- tions to all rules, you know. Frosh: Where's the execption to the rule that we all must die? Miss Haskell: Ah, that's the ex- ception to the rule that all rules have their exceptions. Sonh.: I've added those figures up ten times. Mr. Gilpatric: Good Soph.: And here's the ten an- swersf' Living Editions in Our Library- In His Steps-H. Morgan.

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X tx The VENTURE 41 Patrequin: 'Tm the only one in my family who combs his hair in the middle. Achorn: How's that? . Patrequin: I've got a cowlickf' We understand that Flynn was once attending a lecture. The speak- er started to quote a poem as fol- lows: 'What is so rare as a clay in Junefl' The speaker softly whispered. Flynn's voice rang out in accents wild: 'A Chinaman with whiskersg' Elderly man: What is the matter with that boy ? Church: He's looney. Elderly man: What ? Church: You know, loony, loose in the upper story, bughouse, flooey, goofy. Elderly man Qindignantlyl : I'll have you to know young man that I don't wish to discuss apartment houses or bugs or the extinct goofus animal. In the library at recess: Charlie Gatchell eating fcandyb kisses. t Ruth: Oh! Charlie, give me a kiss. Charlie: Do you really want one? Ruth: Yes, that kind. We wonder what that kind means. SONG HITS Chase Me, Charlie-B. Graves. I'm Telling the Birds, I'm Telling the Bees--J. Arata. I've Got the Green Jealousy Blues- D. Kingsley. I'm Happy-go-lucky, There's Nothing On My Mind-Holbrook. I'm in Love Again-E. Gordon. I'd Rather Be the Girl in Your Arms Than the Girl in Your Dreams- E. Meserve. Because I Love You-Payson. My Sweetie Went Away-Stephen- son. I Canlt Get Over a Girl Like You Loving a Boy Like Me-Ridgwell. MOVIE HITS The Wrong Mr. Wright-A. Wright. The Understanding Hearts-I. Cain, S. Fuller. Taxi, Taxi-C. Noyes. The Fire Brigade-Sheldon. Hey, Hey, Cowboy-H. Miller. The Nuisance-J. Arata. The Newspaper Boy-Achorn. A Little Won't Do Any Harm- Oliver. Two Arms and You-Holbrook and his girl. Girl Shy-G. Foote. Won't You Try and Love Me ?-Mac- Hardy. Can't You See I've Got My Hands Full ?-Payson. She's As Sweet As Honey-Tre- worgy.