Brooksville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Brooksville, ME)

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rr lfkrrfl house for awhrle nd then decrded I would go up to Barkers garage I had heard that a skunk had been seen around the garbage bucket behrnd Barker s house When I got to Barkers I decrded that I would go rn and borrow hrs flashlrght as mrne wasnt much good I drd thrs and went down back and there by the garbage parl were two skunks They got nervous and started for tlfe henhouse near by I took a hurrred shot at one of them and mrssed and they got under the henhouse Makrng up my mrnd to get one of them I went down behrnd the burldrng and Ilashrng my lrght ahead of me I looked underneath There stood Mr Skunk lookrnv at me I took arm and fired and got skunk No 1 more skunks One started out from un der and I decrded to chase hrm I made one leap and where was I9 I drdnt know' Everythrng was dark my rrfle was gone and I was rn some sort of a hole that was full of water drrty water too because rt tasted awful I had gone un der and the one thrng that I hung on to was the borrowed flashlrght At last I crawled out soakrng wet I went up to Barkers house and gave hrm back hrs flashlrght and told h1m what had happened To my surprise rnstead of a well whrch I thought I had fallen rnto rt was a cesspool I hurrred home took a good bath and changed my clothes The next day I fished my rrfle out of the bad smelling pool and threw the skunk rn Srnce that nrght I have been very care ful where I hunt for skunks Robert Howard B H S 39 CAP N JONAS TELLS A YARN OF NIP AND TUCK Capn Jonas Hathaway put hrs feet on the edge of the stove and trlted hrs charr back untrl rt rested at a precarrous angle 'farnst the plne counter of the lrttle store rn Turner Center He pushed back hrs rat and rubbed hrs bald head wrth a weather roughened palm Several other men sat around the fire talkrng but at the well known motron they stopped therr norsy laughter and the room was shrouded rn hushed expectancy Capn Jonas eyes twrnkled as he slowly lrt hrs prpe and let the clouds or blue to bacco moke rrse rn sprrals toward the cerlrng Thrs was hrs usual procedure be fore startrng a yarn and Capn Jonas was a renowned story teller Slowly n hrs own appealrng manner Capn Jonas began hrs story Drd ever I tell yew about the trme I was caught rn a no theaster and drrven erghty mrles off my course? He always started hrs yarns that way and he was never known to repeat one Wall here he paused to tamp down the tobacco rn hrs prpe wall I reckon that the e was about the toughest squall I ever had the poor luck to be caught out rn But we re gettrng the vyge home before the start so lets go back to the begrnnrn and start proper That was back rn the nrnetres Id say offhand I was capn of a lrttle frshrn schooner from Gloucester Jonathan Sparks was the first mate and a better all round seaman never walked a vessel s deck We started off one mornrn for a couple days frshrn on Georges banks for the Gloucester market 'Twas a perfect day couldnt be beat not a cloud rn the sky and the sea as smooth as anyone could want rt There was Just enough breeze to l 7' r -3 1: 4: 9 ' a ' 1 U . Y, - , V A D I. . . Q Y , . . 5 l . .. I- . . - - , . , i Then, to my surprise, I discovered three . - A , - , . ' , . ' rv 7 ' , , - - , v . . ' Ah Y! 7 . . , Y 1 ' I 1 ' ' 1 . . , ' 1 l Y ' . . , ' v , A U ' ! . . ' ' I , - , I ' -. - , . . ., Y .

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lm lirarur matches and clasped them trghtly rn hrs mrttened hand Gar' Got to hrde dees feller he mum b'ed to hrmself but vere'P Ah' He knew Just tloe place Gruntrng wrth the ef fort he horsted the man to hrs shoulder nd stumbled up the trarl A few moments later he stood on the brrnk of a yawnrng chasm Hundreds of feet below a whrrl pool roared omrnously Far up the can yon a wolf howled drsmally The sun shone brrghtly and the wrnd strrred the treetops gently Slowly Jake lowered the man from hrs shoulder and watched hrm slrde over the edge whrrl through the arr wrth amazrng raprdrty and splash rnto the pool far be low He grinned and lrftrng hrs arms hrgh above hrs head gave a yell of trr umph Now he would be warm' He stretched hrs fingers to relreve the cramps and then gazed Stuprdly as the matches fell from hrs hand and slrd toward the brrnk He took a qurck step forward and made a desperate grab for the precrous matches Suddenly he lost hrs balance' He threw hrs Welght backward and scram bled vrolently to get away from the rcy ledge but on the slrppery slope rt was use less He reached the brrnk and scream rng wrth rnsane fury he plunged through the arr to splash lnto the water the Hundreds of feet below the led e whrrlpool roared omrnously Far up he canyon a Wolf howled drsmally The sun shone brrghtly and the wrnd strrred he treetops gently Everythrng was he same But a murder had been commrt ted and Justlce had been done Yukon Justrce' Merle Tapley B H S 38 THRIFT 'Ihe wod thrrft has more meanrngs than most people realrze There rs no Other word whrch means the same The words development prosperrty and srm rlar Words are often used but they are only a small part of the meanrng Money savrng rs some trmes consrdered the meanrng of thrrft but that also rs a small part of thrrft All thmgs concerned rn garnrng possessron of the money also have to do wrth thrrft A man who spends hrs money rs not consrdered as not berng thrrfty rf he can afford what he spends hrs money for and gets hrs money s worth but he must see that he rs dorng hrs part toward ocrety before spendrng too fre lv There are of course exceptrons to all rules Takrng thrrft all together rt can be summed up rn the words Earn all you can save all you can and do not be afrard of grvrng Manley Babson B H S 38 NIGHT HUNTING lhe huntrng of skunks and raccoons at nrght rs legal rf the hunter uses a two cell Hashlrght and 22 cal revolver The nrgnt huntrng of deer and other anrmals 1 prohrbrted though many people vrolate thrs law I have had many experrences at nrght huntrng for skunks but none lrke the one I had three weeks ago yesterday I was standrng by the wrndow and lookrng out 'rt the moon thrnkrng what a good nrght for skunk huntrng At last I put on a coat and hat grabbed my ilashlrght and 22 rfle took a box of shells and went out srde I hunted around the barns and hen rr - . rv - ' - ra vs ' ' . , . . v . , . - . 1 r . . Q L., , 1 . U. . . ' A , - r V. Q. S - . ' . , v , .. . . . - Q ' . . V . ' 1 a . , . v ' r ' . . as . r , . . , . . . . ,, . . . . , , . . ., . .i.... -l. , - . , ' r 3 1 0' - D . ' r ' t . . l. A . - M y . - 1 v ' .. , . 'i , . . ., . .

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I IIP lim 1 ll illl the saxls proper and set us across the harbor at a faxr 1ate We got along pretty well until we got about twenty five mrles from Georges That brought us about hlty or s1xty mlles from Cape Cod For several nnnutes Id been watchxng a cloud whlch was com1ng down from the no theast By the tlme we got w1th1n tx 1 y 111165 of the Banks she was d1 rectly overhead and the w1nd was begln lllllg to cut capers w1th the sea along sxde A long swell began to roll 111 to wlnd ard and by the tlme wed got the alls reefed and the hatches battened down the whltecaps was breaklng over the weather rall and the sa1lors was go1ng around wlth llnes lashed to em to hold em 1n place Bout thxs txme the gale struck us ln earnest and the only th1ng afore lt At three oclock we was st1ll runn1ng wlth the seas comln 1n ove1 the stern and the vessel plow1n her nose under every txme we went down lnto a hollow Then shed come out of 1t toss her head hke a duck and the water would come 1ol11n down on us from the other dlrec t1on Beheve me we were standln most to our knees most of the t1rne Bout noon the raln had started to fall by the bucketful and It ralned steady all the rest of the tlme that the gale lasted It began to get dark along bout four o clock and between that and the raln we couldnt see a vessels length ahead I hadnt any 1dea how far wed run but I knew that we must be gettm pretty close to Nantucket Island and South Shoals I was gettln pretty worrled that wed run onto the Shoals 1n the dark cause twas gettin o thick we couldnt hardly see the bow of the schooner Then all ter once I saw a lxght off to the southeast about half a mlle away Wal' when I see that llght I knew rlght off that unless a mlracle happened wed run ught mack onto the rocks because I knew that that hght was the South Shoals hghtboat I dxd some rap1d flguun and come to the concluslon that we were drlv ln onto the lnner polnt of the Shoals Umless the wlnd held up w1th1n the next lew nunutes we couldnt hold 1ns1de enough to nnss the polnt of the shoals About then the ram hfted and shor enough dead ahead of us and not more than a thousand yards away we could see the water bo111n over the rocks Wlth our shortened sa1l we couldn t hope to mlss the breakers so I gave the order for the men to shake out the reef 1n the ma1nsl The sa1lors klnda held back a mlnute and then went at It and gave her more sa11 mg the ledge Stxll we couldnt clear I bellered to em to set the gafftops ls I knew and the sa1lors knew that lf the masts went out we would go onto the rocks b t Wlth thlngs as they were we d go onto the rocks anyhow so we could only try The vessel creaked wxth the added Stfalll when the tops ls bell1ed out ln the wnnd but she held Frfty yards to go wlth the rocks dead ahead but now wlth the added sa11 she commenced to haul 1n shore a l1ttle Two mlnutes more and we were rushln along wlth the rocks rxght alongslde and not more n thlrty feet away Then w1th a crash the maln mast went overboard takmg part of the ra1l wrth It but We were clear' Beslde me I heard somethlng whlch sounded hke a prayer It was the mate That was what I call Nlp and Tuck he ald If that had gone a mlnute sooner and he wlped h1s hand across hls forehead as he looked at the ma1nmast tra1l1ng astern and the whlte waves breakxng over the rocks whlch were now falllng behlnd ' 10 ' i 2 'Z , . - . 5 . S y , . Q . . A . . , WA. L , , ' v , - f , ' s ' ' VCA u A ' y . - - tr ' ' , . . , , . , A. S . .. , . . , , Q . , . 3 - . . . , , . . , . . , . y . . . i we could do was to turn and run dead Three minutes passed and we were near- .l , . - . y , , . , . v Y ' . ' y - ' x ' ' . , , ., 7 ' H y A , ' ! ' , , . . - 7 ' 7 7 1 7 ' . ! I , . , . . . , - . ' 1 - y . A L ' !7 ! . , , Q . - -, , e . . , Q . , . . .H H , . . 7 I ' , . . . , , . ,