Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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PLIQC l S TH E DOM E I MQW' .K-.f 'r. fy sf 5. WL-1 'N,- vvff XX .4- 'xx,.,.l --fx,-..X 'a-x Vw.A. IRWIN .om . should count for something. Stubby's tail was shorter stillg that was why they called her Stubby I guess. There was going to be a picnic for the young folks. I knew because I heard them talking about it but I was not going. The big dogs were, though, and didn't Tyke lord it over me then! Uh, to think that I had to stay at home was had enough but to have Tyke constantly telling me about it was worse. Wlieii the day came I hid so they could not shut me up and then I went down to the dock and waited until the boat with jean and her friends had gone and then I came out. The boy who lived next door just then brought up his sailboat and I jumped in. There was a girl in there I had never seen before and I almost scared her out of her wits, You should have heard her scream! She screamed so loud that jean turned around in her canoe to see what was the matter and then I almost gave up hope I f Lasse:-Q - of going because she called to them to put me back on shore. The boy, recognizing me, laughed and said, Oh, donit worry about your precious pup, We'll take care of him. Vxfhat he called me I don't know and anyway it sounded pretty terrible so I growled but he must have thought it a joke because he said to Jean, Hear him telling you about it? He surely wants to come. Well, there I stayed, and it was the funnif est sensation to go over the water without going under the way Stubby and Tyke did when they went in swimming. I had often seen the boats on the water but I never thought that I should be in one. Wheii the sailboat had stopped they lifted me out and there was Stubby waiting for me. How she got there I don't know. All I was thinking of was whether or not she was waiting to wash my ears. fThat's the only thing I have against Stubbyfshe insists upon washing me. I don't see why any puppy ean't have a good time without a great big dog running after him to try to wash him., Something smelled so good. I heard somebody call out, Coiled and another say, Hot Dogs! I wondered if they were going to roast me or Tyke. I only hoped it would be Tyke, but nothing happened so I felt a little relieved. Any' way, my thoughts were interrupted hy

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iiis DOME I MP ' W Phage 419' Zahorta: But there are other little garf dens that must not fade away. Nlontrore fstraighteningj: No, they must not fade away in green and gold. What would you? Zahorta: Come thou with me where manfwilled gods and manfwilled dooms yet threaten other golden cities. Come where heavy hearts still fear and doubt within their little gardens. Ivlontrorez This alone is left to me. Finis. PUPPY LGVE By MARJORIE SHINGLER ,lglsffr-2!!!l' Y mother and father were waxy both thorobreds. When I fn E was born there were two WI f others beside myself and 4 1 f both had been taken !'b F away by people who had tj' f come and I was the only ,I 'X X j one left. That was bee ,f cause my nose was not f ' -.- ' it sharp enough for a collie N and so I was left until Ny' x .alnslli one night my master brought home a big fat man who seemed enormous to me and being afraid of his stepping on me, I cried out. That drew his attention to me. My master and he spoke for quite some time and then 1 heard the fat man laugh and say, Well, I'lI take him if you will tell me where I can keep him in my bachelor abode. There was more talking, then some laughing, and then the fat man took me up in his arms out into the street and into a car. W'hen we stopped I was taken out of the car and into a house where there were two other men almost as fat as he. I was given some warm milk and shut into a room and was not taken out until next morning when I was given some more milk and then left alone. I'll never forget that day-it was full of terrors. I could hear a constant lapping of water and when I Hn' ally got onto a couch and then after a sucf cession of bumps got to a window sill and when I looked out I found that the house was not a house at all but a sort of boat not wholly in the water but the water was on one side of it. QI afterwards found out that it was a houseboatj That night the men came home again and later on a girl came with her motheri They fondled me and the girl kept me on her lap the whole time she was there and when she left the fat man who had brought me handed her a key and then she and the lady went away. The next day I was left alone till about ten o'clock when that girl who had been here came again and this time when she went away she took me with her. Pretty soon we came to a small house not on the water but near it and when the girl came up the path leading to the house two great big dogs came bounding down the path to meet her and she called them Stubby and Tyke and made quite a fuss over them. I cowered behind her legs scared stiff be' cause the only big dogs I had ever known were my mother and father. In a few days though I got to know the people in that house pretty well. Besides the girl and the two dogs there were a boy and that lady that I had seen that first day. There was always a crowd of young people there, be- sides. The dogs were Airedales, Stubhy and Tyke. I soon loved Stubby and my mistress whose name was Jean, but Tyke was differ' ent. From the first day he saw me he left me entirely alone and whenever I came near him he would walk away. One day I heard him speaking about me to Stubby and this is what he said: Ever since that little thing has come we have to stay at home. Our mistress thinks he is too small to take out and she thinks she can't take us and leave him at home so we have to stay home and keep him company. There was lots more that he said and I gathered that I was not as welcome as I thought and that in plain words Tyke was jealous because Jean gave much of her time to me and did not play with them and take them for long walks any more. As time went on it got worse. Not that Tyke was mean or hurt me. .lust the opposite. He left me entirely alone and if I came into a room where he was he would stalk out with his nose in the air and never would come near meg why he was this way I don't know because every' body said that I was the prettiest and anyf way my tail was longer than Tyke's. His was just a cut off stub andl think that that

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THE DOME Page 19 Stubby who wanted to show me how to dig sand crabs, and didn't we have fun until somebody called, Who's ready for a swim? Then there was one grand rush and Stubby left me to run barking after Tyke and all the folks. I found the nicest big wooly sweater that you could imagine. I rolled in that for quite a while till finally one of the boys fthe one that the sweater belonged to, I guessj came and grabbed the sweater away from me and seemed as if he didn't like me to play at burying his sweater. Somebody called, Dinners ready! and there was such a noise. They all gathered around the fire and started to eat and what they didn't eat! I had seen the fat men eat but never like this. I heard somebody call for spoons and then somebody QI think it was Jeanj wailed, Oh, I'm sure I brought them. They must be inthe canoe. Then that redfheaded boy that I like so much called out, There is nothing in the canoe, no spoons or cups either, Jean you're a fine one! Now what will we drink coffee out of? Then everybody laughed and then they did the funniest things. They used their hand and drank out of one big pan that they passed around. They gave us so much to Cat that I could hardly walk. I was lying down when I heard Jean call us but I was too tired and too full of eats to go with them. And so through a mist I saw Jean and the boy next door go off with Stubby and Tyke. They had pails so I guess they went for water. I was just lying down and enjoying my' self when I heard a scream and shouting and down the hill out of the woods ran two boys and two girls. They rushed past me and down the beach and into one of the canoes. They were pretty far out in the water when out of the woods came four more boys and girls. They also ran past me into a canoe and started after the others. Then I forgot that I was lazy and full. I got up on my feet and barked, I was so ex' cited. The Hrst canoe was way out but the boys in the second canoe were better paddlf ers and they were just behind them and both going fast. They chased them way up the river and then the unlookedffor happened. Those in the first canoe tried to put on a last burst of speed and they bent forward and to the left too much. Over went the canoe! Nobody seemed frightened about it though and everybody was laughing and just then Tyke and Stubby came back with jean and Ted. The dogs rushed out and swam around barking. I wanted to go too, but I remembered what the water felt like last time I was in it so I just stayed on shore and watched the fun. Then Ted and some of the other boys went out in a rowboat and towed in the canoe. But they wouldn't give those who had toppled it over a towg they made them swim, and when at last they came on shore, waiting for them were those who had been chasing them and in their hands they had the two pails of water that Ted and jean had got from the well in the woods. jean was vainly trying to get the pails from them but they would not give them up and when the others came out of the water they threw the icy well water over them and chased them back into the woods while jean and Ted looked at the empty pails and at last with a sigh picked them up and walked off once more in search of more water. This time I was not too tired to go with them and so I followed the other dogs, but as soon as Tyke saw me he gave one disgusted grunt and ran off up the path into the woods. Stubby was just about to follow him when she saw me so she stayed. It seemed to me that we walked an awful long time and my legs were just get' ting tired when we came to the well. It was very deep and along side of the well was a rope. It was very old, you could see that it was rotting. Ted took this rope and tied it to the first pail and lowered and when he brought it up it was full of water. This seemed odd, so when he lowered the next one I walked over to the edge of the well and looked down and watched it slowly brought to the surface. I put my foot for' ward to touch the pail with my foot, but just then jean called out. I thought she was telling me to come right over to her so I started over to her, but I never reached her for my foot never touched the other side-it just went down with a splash into the water at the bottom of the well. I thought it was cold when I went in with jean and the other dogs into the river but this was worse, it was like ice and I went down with my head under. That was terrible! I felt as if I was dying and when I came up I started my feet going as if I was walking and that kept me up and I saw the boy tie the old rope around him and saw Jean catch hold of the end and then I saw the boy start coming down holding on to the sides and keeping his feet braced on the stones on the side of the well. I cried out but then the water came over my