Besse High School - Breeze Yearbook (Albion, ME)

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BESSE BREEZE seen he1 befole she came home and had persuaded h 1 to buv also VK hen she saw that her husband had bought a book just hke hers she felt 1nd1gnant As they were Staflllg at each other and thlnkmg about the mlstake that thev had made she started toward h1m exclalmmg Why husband we can No we can t elther lnterrupted Mr Watson The man IS off on the tram before tlns Qonfound lt' I could k1ll the fellow I would llke to see h1m agaln Why there he goes to the depot now exclalmed Mrs Watson pO11lt1I1g out of the wlndow at the figure of the book agent mak1ng for the tram But lt s too late to catch h1m and my feet are not dressed so I can t go after h1m exclalmed Mr Watson Just then Mr Stevens a nelghbor drove by So Mr Watson pounded on the WlI'ldOWp3I19 ln a frantlc manner almost fI'1gl1t6l1ll1g the horse of Mr Stevens Here Stevens' he shouted You re hltched up' Won t you run your horse down to the tram and hold that book agent t1ll I come down? Run' Catch h1m now' All r1ght S31d Mr Stevens whlpplng up h1s horse and tearlng down the road He finally reached the tram just as the conductor shouted All Aboard' BOOK AGEN Il' he yelled as the book agent stepped onto the tram Watson'7 Watson wants to see me? repeated the pu7zled book agent Oh I know what he wants he wants to buy one of my books but I can t mlss the tI'2l111 to sell It to h1m If that s all he wants rephed Mr Stevens I can pay for It and take It back to h1m How much 1S1t9 Two dollars fo1 the Wuthermg Helghts Sald the agent as he reached for the money and passed the book out the tram wmdow Just as the tram was pulhng out of the station Mr Watson arrlved puff lllg and blowlng Well I got It for you sa1d Stevens Just got lt and that s all Got what? yelled Watson Why I got the book Wutherlng Helghts and pald for lt for you By the great guns' moaned Watson as he placed h1s hands to hls brow and falnted rlght Ill the mlddle of the street Stephen Fowler 52 'VIYSTERIOUS C ARGO I had been vs utmg on the dock slnce four A M for the small fishmg boat to appear out ofthe fog The place I am talklng ibout IS 1 small 1Sl31ld off the coast of New Orleans about three m1les out md with an axea of about one hundred and twenty five acres It lb not a very large place but It IS qulte an lndustrlous httle spot . 6 u w xl 9' I l ' ' ' ' 66 77 Q - f 1 '- as v ' Us ' it ' . . , ' 7? 66 77 ' ' ' 7 7 L' 7 66 ' 7 ' 7 7 7 . ,, . , . . . - , ' , . . ' 66 79 66 7 ' 7 . , . , . . , . ' 77 ,S . ,, . . . . . ' 7 66 77 66 V 77 ' ' . , ' . 66 77 Book-Agent! hold on! Mr. Watson wants to see you. 66 77 v 6 1 ' 6 L6 I - ' 7 , . . . . . . ,, 66 7 77 ' 66 ' 7 ' 7 . . . . ,, , as ' ' vs ' ' 7 1 . v ' 1 ' 66 ' 7' ' 66 ' 7 77 7 5 7 ' 66 77 66 66 ' ' 77 ' ' 77 9 7 7 ' 66 N 71 ' ' 7 A A yi. . U . A 1 I . g Z 2 . . . ,. 2 . , 9 , . b,-

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E LITERATURE THE STR ADIVARI VIOLIN One dav when h1s father got home from work thls l1ttle boy asked h1s father who Stradlvarl was Then h1s father sat down and started to relate th1s story to h1s son Long long ago there was a boy named Tony h1s blrth name was Antonlo Strad1var1 Th1s llttle boy day after day would practlce h1S v1ol1n lessons so he called them Hls hands would be empty but lf anyone asked h1m what he was dolng he would say he was practlclng h1s v1ol1n One day h1s mother sald But Tony there IS no such thlng as a v1ol1n I know mother Sald Tony I have not lnvented It yet Hls mother sald Why do you practlce on somethmg you haven t got' Well 'I ony replled I want to be able to play It when I do make It The years roll on and when ever 'I ony went out walklng everyone would polnt and say there goes that nutty Stradlvarl k1d One day Tony s father asked Tony what he was golng to make thls v1ol1n from and Tony told hlm From some wood a horse S tall and a cat Well one day when everyth1ng was qulet 'Iony started Ulaklllg h1s v1ol1n He cut the wood for the v1ol1n out of the door panels and glued It together Then he was gone a l1ttle wlule When he came back he had a horse s tall and some cat gut He put some of the halr from the horse s tall on for bow halr then just as he was usmg the cat gut to make strmgs he heard h1s mothel call Kltty kltty Then Tony ralsed h1s volce and Sald No use calllng her mother she won t be around any more Well Tony flIl1Sll6d h1s v1ol1n and made beautlful muslc w1th It Every one pralsed h1m for hlS VIOIIH Well Sonny sald the little boy s father you had better go out and play nov After the boy had been out of doors a few mmutes the cat cwhlch was outslde gave a howl 'I he llttle boy s father went out and asked h1s son what had happened and the llttle boy said as he stood at the chopp mg block axe 1n hand and crymg as he watched the cat jump over the fence I wanted to play v1ol1n maker but kltty wouldn t let me Maur1ceScr1bner 02 IHE MERCHANT AND THE BOOK -XGENT Once upon a tlme 1 book agent came to the town of Vvatel v1lle Malne to sell a book called Wuther mg Helghts He stopped at a house on Water Street and knocked upon the door A 1 1Ll1 merchant M1 James Watson answered The book agent told Watson about the book and 1mpo1 tuned h1m untll he bought Mr Watson dldn t want the book but he bought It anyway perhaps to get r1d of the book agent Tnen takmg It under h1s arm he started back Into the l1V1Ilg room to look at the bloomlng thlng Soon 1n came Mrs Watson She had been v1s1t1ng a I19lgl1bOI' The book agent had , I , ' 1 1, 113 , ,1 ,QL - 7 I 4 Y . . . . .1 6' v . . . 1 1 1 ' 1 rf ' sa ' I - ' - 1 11 as 11 ' 1 1 ' 1 as ' 1 11 ' ' cs - 1 - 1 ' 1 111 as 11 1 ' as . , , . . ,, , . as 7 ' cs ' ' ' 11 , . an 1 ' - ' ' ' ra 1 ' 11 1 , , . . . , . . . . Q , . . . i V , . . , . 1 1 , as ' ' 11 ' ' ' ' cc 1 1 - v - , 1 11 9 1 - N . . . . . . . . . 1 - ' . . . . . ,, cc 11 ' ' 1 sc I Q 1 1 11 ' v 1. 4 C c , . . h , . , , - . . I . x . 1 f 1 A. I ' ' ' 1 11 , ' . ' ' 11- r1 X ' - I . . Y . . 1 1 --f f . - 1 f 1 1 . 14 .' ' - 1 . I ' . , . , ' .Ac . . . Y . , . . . , . , . . . - - . v . . . 5. . . ,, .

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BESSE BREEZE 21 w1th one store a barber shop and n1nety lnhabltants As the small boat pulled up to the slde of the pler and was roped to the posts a man with a small package m hls hand Jumped off qu1ckly He went hurrledly up the street whlch was almost deserted and turned the corner by the barber shop I w1th bag and baggage crawled over the slde onto the boat I had to wander around a few mmutes to find the C '1pta1n who told me where to put my bag Wlthlll a half hour or so we pulled away from the pler and out lI1tO the blue space called the Fulf The day was golng to be one of those warm sunny days typlcal of the I oulslana Coast We hadn t gone far when I lost sight of San Olego Island whlch was my home Soon we would catch slght of the mfunland but then we would stlll have to go mland a llttle to get to New Orleans It was about eleven o clock and we were still on shlp when I spled the ame man that I had seen runnmg up the street back home By one o clock we reached the publlc landmg m New Orleans We all plled off mcludmg the man We were met on the p1er by a Customs officer He looked both me and my baggage over closely Although the other man had no baggage he was searched just the same I notlced that the offlcer called hlm Shxfty Belng told to take off hls shoes the man d1d so The ofhcer took them and tapped the soles Wlth h1S l1ttle hammer To my surprlse the heel came off and 1ns1de were several small capsules The officer lmmedlately handcuffed the man another dope smuggler had been caught R xlph Meader 54 PROVIDENCE Smce Marle s father had left whxch was shortly after Davy her younger brother had been bo1n her famrly had gone through very hard tlmes and now had to l1Y8 ln the Clty slums Marle was the oldest one of the five chlldren so It fell on her to help her mother Mrs Jones support the famlly She Hmshed grammar school when she was fourteen vears old but could 1 ot go to hlgh school As qulckly as posslble she got a Job helpmg a rlch old mald MISS Plerson do her house work She got a dollar and a half ex ery day and had Saturday afternoons and Sundays off Her mother dld vxashmgs and 11Ol11I1gS for the nelghbors but could not earn more than three dollars a dax To eke out a l1v1ng for the famlly Marle turned over five dollars a week and kept three dollars 111 a Jar she had 1n her bedroom Marle s mother d1d not know about th1s Jar of money Marle was savlng to . f Q . , . ,c . I I . . . .I ' Y A 1 . , . . 5 . ' ' c , , . . . S . , . . . ' ' ' G6 77 4: as ' 2 . . H . ,, . . , . , . 1 1 c T N1 - - v ' cn as e 3 , . . . Y . . a , . ' , . 7 . . V , I . I 9 7 ' 1 ' 3 7 . . . . , . . . . .