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Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

 - Class of 1939

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Page 27 text:

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TRAVEL BY BOOKS One night not long ago as I lay in bed I tried to remem- ber what books I had read. I have read many kinds of books and I enjoy all of them. In my world of books I have been in many strange places and associated with all the types of people in the world, .ifhen I read a book I try to put myself in the story and stand right at the hero’s shoulder and go through all the emotions that he must go through. I have sat in a tent with Frank -Duck while he decided what the next day’s program would be. I have stood at his shoulder as he cranked his camera and then; suddenly jumped aside as a huge rhinoceros lumbered by. I have watched him and his men carefully take a tiger out of a pit and put him into a cage so that he could be shipped to the United States. There he would be put in a cage to amuse the people that visit the zoo daily. After I have travelled with Frank Buck for a while I have suddenly found myself making preparations to fly the At- lantic u cean with that young American flyer, C ol, Charles A. Lindbergh. I have peeped over his shoulder as he fingered the sensitive controls of the Spirit of St. Louis as she glided, like a bird, down over Paris and landed at the Le Bourget field in France. ,Vhen I have become tired of flying I have gone under- neath the water with Captain Ellsworth, who is a deep sea diver. I have watched him check on his equipment; and I have also accompanied him as he sank through the water and landed with a thud on the bottom. I have helped him light -his acetylene torch and burn a hole in a huge iron safe. I have seen his eyes light up with f strange gleam as he saw the heap of gold ingots within. As we go back a few years I was at the shoulder of the Commander of The V. Boat when he gave the signal that sent the Lusitania sinking below the waves. I heard him say, ’’Load the forward torpedo tubes” and then he said, ’’Fire.” I heard the hiss as the torpedoes went on their errands of death . ,Vhen I have tired of the air, the sea, and the warm country of Africa I have gone to the Louth Pole with Admiral Byrd. I have watched him carefully count his supplies and finally I h°ve clambered, aboard the Becar and sailed away to the land of the biting cold and glistening ice. ihen we got there I helped to assemble the planes and to carry the supplies by dogsled. Many times I have mushed the dogs with a huge bullhide whip. I also got a great thrill out of fly- ing around the pole on a cold morning with Admiral Byrd in front of me at the controls. Don’t you agree with me that one can travel vividly and extensively by books? Paul Thayer ’40

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