Brooksville High School - Breeze Yearbook (Brooksville, ME)

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Tire BREE7r time that he tried to have a few mrnutes to himself she bothered him First rt was asking hrm to fix the arm of her doll next It was to fill the woodbox when he had so many other things to do and he didnt see why his mother made him ill rt anyhow Why couldnt Eliza instead of playing all day long9 Eddle Eddie' ' The vorce was gettrng nearer He had better go out and see what she wanted Wrth a frown that would have frrghtened Joan Holland rf she had seen rt and walk ing with as far frown a drgnrfred walk as could be he strode across across the room and flung open the door WHAT do you want He shouted rt rn a vorce so loud rt made his l1ttle srster clap her hands over her ears Eddie' you know what mama said about shoutrng at me Where have you to go swimming with me Please do Ed die' It rs a lovely day and mama won t let me go with the others without someone older She says I might get drownded What does it feel like to be drownded Ed d1e'P With a groan he went back into hrs room for hrs bathing surt No use for him to say no rf he wanted that car for a blrthday present Now Eliza would go and get about live hundred little girls and boys none of them over ten to go with her Wouldnt he look just fine going down the road with all of them' ' As they started down the road with Ed die leading and all the children behind h1m Eddre spied Joan Holland and Sam my Mance coming very slowly down the sidewalk Wasnt there some way for him to get away from these blamed k1ds'J Then an rdea came to h1m He would use that dignified walk that he had been practrs mg and he would bow and say good mornrng with a cool smile then go on quite quickly as rf he had very heavy business on hrs mrnd As the two parties drew nearer together Eddie hastened hrs steps a l1ttle threw back hrs head and thought how rmpressed Joan would be He noticed that the children behind hrm were very quret but he didnt turn hrs head because h thought that rf he rgnored them Joan mrght think that they werent w1th h1m but only golng the same Way Now they were meetrng As Eddie strargtened from a low bow his face very red through its close contact to the ground he heard a sound behind hrm that made hrm turn Behind hrm ln sm gle file were all the children bowing so low that their heads almost touched the srdewalk The grave expressron on their red faces as they regarned their posture with their shoulders so far back they could see nothing but the sky they looked so comr cal that Joan and Sammy were rn gales of laughter Eddie almost ran down the srdewalk Why he wondered had he got en himself into this mess? He might have known that something lrke this woud happen All the chrldren were coming behind h1m and when he got far enough down the street he turned and scowled at them You can go swrmmrng by yourselves I dont care rf you all drown a ely Then he turned down a back street and headed for home When he arrived there father comrng down the steps Hello son his father greeted him I have been looking for you Come wrth me a minute They went down to the old garage that never had been used because they had he sard sav he met hrs 8 ' . 2 . . . . U ! . . . . . ,, . . l ' 7 7 Z . . , . 1 . ' . , . . . I ' y U ' 1 . , . . . I . , H I li ' ' H - . ' . -V , . . ' Y ' . . . , . , e ' - .' . . - , . . Y r Q ' ' 7 AK H ' . - J . Y . v , v ' , ' KL ' ' G been all this time? Mama said to tell you ' - - I . , ' ' , l , . . . , , , , - l ' 7 7 ' 7, L . . . . ,, , . . N . . . Y . i , , ' , ' as . ' ' ' .I v ' ' - , . ,, . - 7 . . . Cl' D . , - , ' . . A - - rn v ' ' F - . H '-. -. - u 1 ' ' , , , . . . . ,, . Q . , . - , ,

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THE BRFI' LF LITERARY U Q EDWARD BROWN Edward Brown sat on the wrndow seat 1n h1s room h1S eyes gazrng dreamrly out of the wlndow Tomorrow he would be elghteen and he had h1nted very broadly to h1s father that he wanted an automo b1le for a buthday present He had wanted a car all h1s l1fe Well anyhow for the last five months s1nce Jack Holland had come to town wrth hrs Plymouth Before that he hadnt thought much about rt because h1S best frrend Harry and he had been wlth h1m But moved 1nto the and tw1n slster Joan Edward had dec1ded that he must have a car He pictured hrmself r1d1ng around 1n a brg sedan Then he thought maybe just a lrttle roadster would be better wouldnt have to have a whole crowd wrth hrm every tlme he got 1n He would say to hrs frlends Im sorry boys but there IS Just room for Joan and me When I get the car that I mtend to have next year I ll take you all wlth me Oh yes a road ster was what he wanted Then h1s thoughts turned dreamrly to Joan He got up and Walked to the look mg glass As he approached lt he threw Duncan had an old Ford content to r1de around when Jack Holland had town wlth h1s mother back h1S shoulders and walked very strarght and dlgnliied The person rn the mnror looked back at hlm and smrled as 1f the world was Just an open book to hlm and he was very bored w1th every th ng Would Joan be more lmpressed 1f he walked lrke thatf' Or would she 11ke lt better lf he took smaller steps l1ke that srssy Sammy Mance who was V1Sltl1'1g her brother Jack Sammy had blue eyes and straw colored harr and all the boys called hlm a SISSY Edward had notrced that Joan had looked upon Sammy Wlth favor the other day As for Edward she had never spok en a dozen Words of real conversatron to hrm 1n her l1fe But she always sard hello when they met and once she had laughed Wlth h1m over some 11tt1e thmg that happened and he could st1ll see her b ue eyes twmklmg and hear her lovely laughter that had sent shlvers up and down hrs back Yes he guessed that he would practrce walkmg wlth h1s head and shoulders well back and the next trme he met her he would take off h1s hat and bow Of course lf she Eddie' Eddre' where are you? All of Edwards dreams came tumblmg down around h1s ears at El1zas call Why oh why drd boys who were erghteen have to have ten year old s1,5ters'P Every 4, 7 4 4 4 H W . I H 1 U ' 'S I - 1: I f ., I lt f E 5 x I , I 1 -1 1 X , . M.-.:-. . win: l C' X f ll ..1'5- 57 ' ' ' , , . y .. y i I . . 3 Y 7 , Y J , , 7 y l , L4 . 7 7 I 7 I Q . ' Y - , , . . . . ' 1 U n , 1 Y . . , . . . . , . He , 1 ' - , ' J . m4 . ' ' . ll Y 4 ' ! J ' y ' s 1 . - - 1 - Jn . - ll - ' yy . , , . . . , . - - . . , ' Y . ' , , . , , - - i

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Tm BRFI 71' had no need for a car After unlockrnff the door hrs father preceded hrm rn Then he moved asrde so Edward mrght ee Where were all of Edwards dreams of a lovely new car ' Surely thrs couldnt be what hrs father had bought for hrm' Why thrs was Harry Duncans old Ford wrth a new coat of parnt' Well how do you lrke rt son'P asked Mr Smrth beamrng proudly upon Edward Why father' Er uh why' Now I have a car of my own Thanks ever so much father' Not for anythrng would he let hrs father see how drsappornted he was Wrth feet that dragged he followed Mr B own up the road to the house Hrs fath er was sayrng somethrng And so I thought you and I would go huntrng up rn the Marne woods thrs fall How would you heard a horn toot behrnd hrm As he looked up he saw rt was Sammy Mance rn hrs new Burck and besrde hrm her han flyrng rn the breeze from the open wrndov. sat Joan Holland She drdnt efen look Edwards way though he knew that she mut have seen hrm She was too much engrossed rn what Sammy was sayrng For a mrnute Edward was very Jealous 'Ihen he threw back hrs shoulders not to create an rmpressron on Joan thrs trme but because he drdnt care rf Joan drd go by wrth Sammy Mance Wrth her head rn the arr She could have that lrttle srssy rf she wanted hrm Soon rt would be fall and he and hrs father would be huntrng rn the Marne woods Wouldnt the other boys be surprrsed to see hrm come home Wrth a 400 pound buck rn the back of the old Ford? It was not the admrratron of the weake sex that he could crave rn the future He cl leave that to the fellows who understood them' Grace Ladd 40 BOOKS Boolfs are one of the most essentra' thrng rn thrs crvrlrzed World or rather rn thr world that rs supposed to be crvrlrzed If rt werent for the number of books that are publrshed we should all be rgnorarrt unrntellrgent people Even rn the Brble trmes some sort of books Were wrrtten on parchment so as to keep a record of what happen d In Rome and other parts of the world rnscrrptrons have been found on rocks and ca e walls Indrans often drew crude prc tures to rllustrate 11 hts or somethrng else that they thought rvnportant All these books are to us People must learn to wrrte and to use correct Englrsh It rs through books that we learn all these thrngs The one thrng that entertarns most people rn thrs town durrnff the wrnter months rs readrng Hav you ever stopped to thrnk about how th hrstory of wrrtrng books dates back? If you haven t why not start thrnk rne about rt now? Publrc lrbrarres have been establrshed so people who are unable to buy or secure books any other way are able to read book erther frctron or non fictron whrch ever nts rnto therr schedules Some people respect the rrght of berng able to borrow books from the lrbrary but otlcers use the books carelessly and often sporl them for someone else by markrng on them or tear rnff pag s from them I hope you arent the krnd who destroys books Avrs Soper 41 C . 'Z . 1 9 .l - ' D 1 ' ' . C i 7 ' r , ' 7 I ' ' r' s. . . cr ' - ya . , 7 1 ' - . 1 ' ' Y ' k Ayr. , -U , H , -. - . . Q . 1 ' - . H ' 'fr 1 1 ' - ' - - M ir . ' - ' V KA . . ... ,, - . . - Y . f ,ou . D x . a 'A I - like that? Before he could answer, he things were probably to them like Our- , A . 7 D ' ' S ' . f 3 ' ' ' ' . A . l y 8 . . . y . 1 . t . V ,, . - ' ' , : Lg ' . V, . . . . M . , . . , . . . X , A G E, . . - L. y . - ' , - . . ' . , , 1 ' D , 1 . g .. . , . , , . ,