Brearley School - Brearley Book Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Min Li1te!!: Girls, girls, don't let your attention wander from the subject at hand. Beryl: The subject at hand. Worms! Oh Helen, remember Qthey singj long, slim, slimy ones, big, fat, gooey ones, oooshy, oooshy, oooshy, oooshy worms. Min Littell,' Not so much noise, girls. Beryl: Sorry, Miss Littell, it's only a song. QMiss Taylor distributes the pans. Each girl stares apprehensively at worm.j Belnbu fbrightlyj : Look at the darling mother mouse. It's in a temper. fEvery- one rushes to bowl where white mouse is belaboring a head of lettuce. Her numerous progeny cower in their chalk-box home.j Belnba fcrooningj : Darling little mousie. Look at its sweet little ears. Louires Since when are mother mice neuter? Bebba: Her sweet little ears, then. just like the small pink shells one picks up at Forte dei Marmi near Viareggio. Aren't they, janet? fanef: What? the ears? Exactly like the shells at-er,-yes, just like those shells. Beblm: One walks along the shell-strewn beach and one sees the delicate yel- low of the mimosas on one side and the Mediterranean on the other, so blue, so clear, so calm. Louire: And so full of the most translucent and vicious jelly-fish. Qclutching at a strawj Miss Littell, I haven't done my jelly-fish. Can't I, mayn't I postpone my worm for my jelly-fish? Min Litre!! Qfirmlyjz Do your jelly-fish this afternoon. Get to work, girls. fRecognizing the voice that must be obeyed, they meander disconsolately to their desks.j Claorur: How do we begin? Min Lille!! Qpracticallyj : Use your Baitsells. Anne: I just thought of something awfully sad about worms. Take a worm way down in the earth . . . jane! fpersuasivelyj: You take it. Anne fcontinuing with hauteurj: . . . way down in the earth who wants to come up. It might go on wriggling forever and think it's getting nearer the earth's surface and all the time be going in the wrong direction. fCries of commiserationj E613

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it anyway and it is very long and he wants to get through in a short time. It is made of four iambic feet. An iambic foot is when if you have one syllable and one short syllable and Miss Whiton says la LA. Pope says iambic feet are wounded snakes which blow soul-animating strains, alas, too few!! Iambic feet are used a great deal in the English language because, of course, the English language is very extensive and has a great deal of feet, but on the whole they use iambic feet, because people like to say la LA, only sometimes they say LA la and then it is a trochee. An example of iambic feet are: The stag at eve had drunk his hll Where danced the moon on Monan's till. and: Come one, come all, this rock shall Hy From its firm base as soon as I. These lines are very spirited and one hears them quoted a great deal. On the whole, considering everything, Marmion, I mean Tbe Lady In The Lake, is awfully well handled, I mean it is a good poem. THE WORMS THAT TURNED SCENE: The Biology room of a Tuesday morning. An air of tenseness hangs over the students who watch Miss Littell transferring worms from a central vat to individual pans. They shudder when Miss Littell straightens a worm with her own bare hands. Polly: What an awful smell. Min Littell flooking upj: What did you say? Polly: I said, What a disgusting odor. Mira' Littell: Polly, the word disgusting is not at home in a Biology Labora- tory. Girls, I know this odor is unpleasant but it is not the worms. It's only formaldehyde. Sybil 1 What's that? Helen: It's what's in Formamint tablets. Sybil: What's it do? Helen : I don't know. I suppose it helps the worms not to decay. Sybil: Do Formamint tablets help us not to decay? rm

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Mlcbeline: The blood rushes to its head when it's going the wrong way. Anne fdefending her theoryj : It hasn't any blood. Miclaeline fwho has been using her Baitsellj: It has. It has a dorsal blood vessel and a ventral blood vessel and parietal blood vessels. Anne Qsadlyj: Another bubble pricked. Sarah: In .Iourney's End they said the same thing, about worms going down instead of up, and they said worms didn't have any blood. Min Littell: journeys End is wrong. Worms have blood. Sarala funconvincedj: Well, I don't see why the man who wrote journeys End should tell a lie, do you? Min Littell: Get to work, girls. QAII except Bebba recognize defeat and handle their worms with a multi- tude of tools.j Mrs. Littell .' Bebba, why aren't you working? Bebba: Miss Littell, I can't, really. In Italy girls don't inspect worms. I just can't stomach worms. Helen: Very few people can. Look at IHPGWOIIHS. janet: Oh, Helen, disgusting. Mirr Liltell: janet, I do not want that word used in my laboratory. Qanet concentrates on earthwormj Sybil: Miss Littell, I think I have a bad worm. It's all full of holes like stigmata. Lo11i.fe.' Do you mean stig- - - or sto- - -mata? Sybil: I mean what a leaf has. Loni.fe: Stomata then. Only saints have stigmata. Anne: Oh yes. St. Francis had them. I read it when I was reading about Duckio's works. Bebba: Oh, Dio mio! Dootchio. Min Litlells Attend to your worm, Bebba. Helen: It's really better to get it done now. You'll only have to do it later. Bebba fbridlingj: I should say that was my business. Beryl fsoothinglyj: Worms aren't so bad, Bebba. Wait till you get to frogs. Frogs squirt. IIl1f'0lll7IfdI 'lf Claornf: Oh, how disgusting! l62il