Bryant Junior High School - Junior Life Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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THE JUNIOR LIFE 45 Robert E. is just coming home from school with a pumpkin seed given him by his teacher. When entering the house he told his mother that the teacher had told him that although the seed was white the pumpkin would be yellow. Mrs. E.: And what color will the vine Ik? Robert: I don't know. Mrs. E.: But you should know. The color of our vines in tliL hack yard. Robert: But we aren’t expected to know anything until we are taught. • Prof.: What’s nothing? K. S. (very thoughtfully): It’s a footless stocking without any leg. • Betty Lu Schoening is (as you probably know) a resourceful lass and an extremely forgetful one. Miss Bergelarui (stopping her dictation): “Betty Lu, what are you doing?’’ Betty Lu: “Oh, I forgot my pen, so I’m dipping my pencil in the ink.” • And then there’s the one about the Scotchman who fanned his wife with a herring because the doctor said she needed salt air. Here's to the teachers, long may they live, Just as long as the assignments they give. • Law: The deportment of a student varies inversely as the square of the distance from the teacher’s desk. Miss Wilson: James, use disposition in a sentence. fames B.: When I wants to fight, I fights in dis position. Mrs. K. (all star): Why didn’t you put the watermelon in the ice box, as you were told to. Helen N. (indignantly): I did, but it isn’t cold. I had to take the ice out to get it in. Mrs. H.: And what did you do in school today? D. .: Wc had nature study and it was my turn to bring a specimen. Mrs. H.: And what did you bring? D. H.: I brought a cockroach and I told teacher we had lots more. • Hostess (politely): What part of the chicken do you like best, Robert? R. S. (timidly): I like the meat best. Small Boy (visiting zoo for first time with his father. His eyes arc glued on the elephant): Oh, look at the big cow with his horns in her mouth and eating hay with her tail. Miss Kitcher: “What is steam?” fohn: “Water in a high state of perspiration.” Mrs. Warner: “Don’t you know George Washington never told a lie? Sam Jackson: “No, Ma’am, I only heard it.”