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

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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

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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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Page 20 THE DOME head and when I came up the boy was reaching out to grab me but his foot slipped off the slippery rock and the jerk broke the rope and I was back in the water once more but this time tightly held in the boy's arm. He held on to one of the stones which just a few minutes before had held his feet. When I saw that boy's face I couldn't help it but had to bark out loud. He looked terrible for there was no way to get up with me in his arms. Of course, if somebody could take me he could probably get up, but the water was icy cold and his face was a dead white. He called to Jean to run and get help but she would not leave him. I cried once more and out of the woods rushed Stubby frightened by my cries, and that gave jean an idea. She called Tyke with all her might and then said, as if talking to herself, Tyke's been here twice today. He ought to know the way home. When Tyke came at last she pulled off her sweater and tying it around him said, Go get them, Tyke! and to her cry I added my plea by whining. At this Tyke came running over to the edge of the well, looked down and saw me, and instead of starting off for help he sat down at the side of the well for he thought that at last he could get even. He understood that if he went for help he went for me and the whiteffaced boy. He grinned, I'm sure he did, and all the while Stubby ran around crying and barking in a distracted way. Jean was frightened and angry. She picked up a switch and hit Tyke across the flank and kept commanding him to go, but this was only adding insult to injury and jean was at last too distracted to do anything so she sat down and cried. At last the boy could hold on no longer and let go and once more we went under and when we came up the boy grabbed the nearest rock and cried out to Jean, Oh, do something, jean. I can't hold on much longer. and Tyke, frightened at seeing us go under the water stood up and barked and I gave one last plea in a very weak voice that could hardly be heard. Then some' thing happened to Tykeg he did something very odd. He lifted up his head and let out one long wail that echoed through the woods and gone from his eyes was all the jealousness and hatred and instead there burned a tender light and he was off like a shot through the woods. He ran and set the camp into a terrible muddle. They ran shouting to each other and to the panting dog with the dirty trailing sweater and with him leading finally came to the well in time to see the boy's black curly head disappear once more. The redfheaded boy went down head first with the others holding on to his feet and grabbed mc and handed me to .lean and then in a few minutes I saw them lift up the boy from the water. That night I was given hot milk and see' ing Tyke lying on the sofa I jumped up and laid my head on his tummy. A little later Stubby came and also jumped up and I fell asleep with my head on Tyke's tummy and his snout on my head while outside the boy next door laid in the hammock with jean at his side and on the porch the red' headed boy read a story about the wild west, wishing that he could go out there and rescue beautiful girls instead of half' drowned puppies and boys. Hovtense Basqum, who wrm LL trip to Frame in the recent ovatofical contest conducted by the FTdHCO'AmCTfCdH Goodwill Society.