Bethel High School - Key Yearbook (Bethel, NC)

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Miss Overton (to ninth English class, which was studying Franklin ' s Dialogue With the Gout — What is the gout? Dodie — The gout? Why, it ' s a dialogue. Miss Beckwith — If you should live in any other country than the United States, which would you prefer? Camile (innocently) — California. Miss Beckwith — Martin Luther, what are the uses of the skeleton? Martin Luther Carson — The skeleton teaches young boys to know how to be doctors. Robert Williams (in third grade) — Miss Lassiter, let us take bome extra size. (Exercise). Jimmie Warren to Miss Lassiter — Please put the monster ' s (monitors ' ) names on the board. Miss L — Jimmie, what do we mean by a truck farm? Jimmie — A place where you keep trucks. Larry Bullock — Miss Lassiter, when will we get that animal (annual) that you were telling us about? Robert Burroughs was on Mrs. Wilson ' s music class practic- ing a song one day which read like this, The ' orn of the ' unter is ' eard on the ' ill. This jarred Mrs. Wilson ' s nerves, so she asked him why he never sounded his H ' s. Robert replied Don ' t you know there are no H ' s in music? It only goes up to G. Miss Andrews, (calling roll) — Answer for yesterday morn- ing and this morning, too. Irvin Taylor — Twins!

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JOKES A primary teacher expecting a group of teachers to visit her room to observe, told the children to wash their hands, face, neck and ears very good that night. One little boy went home and said, Mama, Miss Zahniser told me to wash most all over tonight. Nannie (absently) — Why, Miss Overton, I didn ' t know we had Comus today. I thought we were going to have Milton. Miss Ferebee, (filling out register) — Sarah, in what year were you born? Sarah— 1709. j Hubert Burroughs (after studying physiology and geogra- phy) Miss Beckwith, isn ' t the alimentary canal in Europe? Frank Martin (to Luther Nobles, whose boisterous laughter hac ' disturbed the class)— Say, Luther, why don ' t you put on a muffler? Freshman — Miss Overton, is North Carolina a dormant state Miss Overton — Why? What do you mean? hieshman — Why, I ' ve just read a sentence which says that the toad spends the winter in a dormant state. Frances Smith, one morning, after looking vacantly into the sky for five minutes, suddenly said: Oh! By the way Annie Gertrude, I have a ' mulish ' last go trade for you. ' After Annie Gertrude traded with her, Frances innocently said, Somebody said that you were the best dresser in town, but that you would make a much better chiffonier.

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Miss Overton — Define work, please. Clarence — Never experienced any. Unprepared. Robert (to photographer) — How much would it cost me to have a dozen life size pictures taken? He then wondered why the photographer laughed.