Brooksville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Brooksville, ME)

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1 frlllll Cap n Jonas brought h1s chalr down wlth a bang as he fll11Sh6d the na11at1ve Ju1np1n codfish he eJaculated w1th a grln ten o clock' If I dont hurry home Mana wxll have the whole dad blamed file company out after me I spose shes af1a1d Ill get lost ln a fog and lun afoul of a ledge along the way home Now dont be settln up late and burnln all the storekeepers wood he sald as he went out the door Merle Tapley B H S 38 octw Ll THE SN OWFLAKE You fell there softly on my sleeve A t1ny m1ll1onth of the storm I held you close that I mlght see The oft sung beautles of your form You were lovely as a b1t of lace Fraglle Waltllflg close to death Wltheled by my breath Malcolm Blodgett B H S 38 DUSK When sunset deftly wlelds 1ts blush And palnts the western sky The twlllght shadows softly hush Whlle beautles fade and d1e The sun dlps slowly down to res Soft breezes whlsper low And gllt edged clouds that frlnge the west Wave softly as they go Then soon nlght s soft black curtaln falls The myrlad stals peep through Above the lonely nlght blrd calls And God IS near to you Merle Tapley B H S 38 41 IF 13 US GIRLS Our basketball team Was set for a fight The seventeenth of November On a IT100ll11ght n1ght We had practiced falthfully We had practlced long We thought that our team Was exceedmgly strong Now along came the Old Folks With heads very hlgh Well teach these young scamps How to make a ball Hy They had not had much practlce Some for ten years or more But you ought to have seen them Jumpmg round on the floor We thought we could beat them But the laugh was on us They soon had us beaten Wlthout any fuss When the score was read We felt l1ke mere dust The next tlme we play them Well beat them or bust' ' -Jeanne Soper B H S 7114: 'mini ll Q. . - H . .Y V 1 5 7 y . I 7 - U ' ' . ' I . in v . . 9 n l ' For in an instant-you were goneg ' . Y . V v . - , . . ., . X: ,6 4, . ll H V 1 ' w ' 1 1 . y I , . - , . tg . , f , Z ' v ' . l ' 1 Y Q - 1 l , y , . . ., '39,

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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 ' , . . . , , . ,

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12 1111-1 lirarirczri A FARMER A trller of the S011 was he As tall and strong as he could be Hrs l1at was broad and made of strfrw Overalls upon hrmself a11d boots Upon hrs feet he wore He had a tractor to work hrs held W1llCh was better for hrm hrs grarn t1 yreld He loved hrs books and radro whrch Helped hrm forget the cold and snow He had a wrfe named Mabel Lurch And together they fa1tl1fully attended cl1urch 'Ihe funny old car he rode Ill Was made mostly out of trn He wa a man of moderate means And had 110 cash for lrmousrnes He loved to Joke and play the fiddle And when a11 argument came round He was always found rrght rn the mrddle John S Blake B H S 39 'I HE UNFINISHED SONG 1Tl11: etting of the poem rs a great house where '1 arty 1 ll pre ress A grr IS s111g111 and 1 the krtchrn the cook h a s a snatch of the son befo onre unthrnkrn person closes the door bc 1ut5 and suddenly she thrnks of her lrttle gn who dred The Ong unfrnrshed remrrrds her o her lrttle grrls llfe 1 'Ihey thouf ht he very young and dear As she stood there softly rnerng Her voree o low net wondrous clear Lrke a drstant bell heard rrngrng In tl1 krtchen Mary heard her too Stood wartmg s1le11t1y for 111016 But another all l,lI1kllOWll1g soul Had ourckly closed the door She srghed and felt wrthrn he de n The fiutterrng of untrred wrngs And thought of Joan dead years aio He l1fe lrke thrs an unflnrshed thrng Malcolm Blodgett B H S 38 WHILE STUDYING Sometrmes when studyrng rn school I thrnk how much twould be If one frne day from out the blue A fortune came to me Such wonderous plans I often make About what I would do 'Ihe thrngs Id buy for everyone If o11ly dreams came true My small brother d have the dog He s always wanted so And Ma should have the clothes she lrkes And other treats I know And Dad should buy so many thrngs That 11ow he goes wrthout Because the cash wont run too far And he goes short no doubt But as for me I really thrnk That what Id lrke the best Would be to knovt that any trme I could just take a rest' Bernrce Gray B H S IN MEMORY I followed a 1Obl1lS call today Away from the busy street Tc the hrgh green hrll beyond the town And the sprrng was sweet Orce you and I walked here my dear Ha11d rn hand rn Aprrl weather And tlre hrlls were blue a11d our dreams Were sweet one sprrng together I at alone on the hrll today And xour vo Ce and 30.11 to11e1 were gone But the hrlls were blue a11d I found our dreams Somewhere Ill the haze beyond Myrtle Condon B H S 39 . ! V . . . - 1 - 1 ' - 1 1 1 S ' . Q . ' . i Q Q , t . Q , Q ' , ' ' . Y . . ,H . , , - .. 1- . J ' y C 1 ' Y 1 ' 11 YV ' '- 1 - 1 - - . 7 v : V Y . . . 1 1 - Y . v ' . Q . . Y . . , . , , . T. . , . . ., . . as an an ' 1 B , . . . 41. 1: 1: a p ' s l rg . ' l Y' g, 11 ' , e rx x q 3 .0 5 ' ' g 5 .- '. - ' ' Y SO111ttl1i11g within her responds to this touch lg 1 .l . L. 1 U. . - - .i , 1 ' ' S Y V - I. . f I - . . ' I' Y' ' ' . o f ' t Q' ' ,, . ., 4 4 ' L , U A I Y 1 ' Y u i - ' ' ' 1 . Y 5 1 ,,' 1 , 1 1 0 ' 1 . - - . K- ' - - . c . . . . V ' y ' ,, , 1 1 . - 1 1 1 2- 4 1 A Y .. D V, . 1 . - 1 1 1 .1 - .0 . . 'I D U h A- '1 1 1 ' . , - ' . , . ' , . . , , . , K, Q 5 1 7 . 1 1 7 1 - - 1 1 - ' 1 - A - 1 '