Burr and Burton Academy - Burtonian Yearbook (Manchester, VT)

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THE BUPTONIAN POLYPHEMUS Br Betty Swift 3 Polyhcmus was one of the grant Cyclops I saw him rn hrs ranlt smelling rancid wwe surrounded on all sides by piles of stagnant entrails and the remnants of his last meal of human fle h dripping from his chin For a meal he takes a person 1 exch hand and after exulting over his prey strugvlrnq in hrs clutche he squee es them untrl their cries can be heard re echoing in the lofty mountains Then after bashing, their brains out on rock he crunches them with hrs terrible pointed yellow teeth licking his chops in a fearful manner With their bodies still trembling with lrfe he tears them lrrrrb from lrrnb and with the putrrd ,ore dripping, from hrs chin he dcvours them with great relish Washing this down with wine he next digs out their eyes taking them as so many candy drops he suelis noisily before crunching them down in the cave vomiting mightily and belching forth gobbets of half chewed entrarls and foamy bloodstained wine A gory stench rises from his pukings When the worst of the bloody gore had been deposited I took a sharpened pole and creeping upon him dug out hrs lone eye whereupon the goo Lame gushing forth and blood spattered the cave and myself Vvrth a roar of pain and agony he rurnped up but as he couldnt see I was away before he could catch me AN ELF Hx lvfartha deSchweinrt ld like to be a lrttle elf They are nexer bad or mean Lrlte bats and goblins Wlro make the babies scream Elxes don t live under the ltrtchen sink Lrlte spiders and insects do They lrxe in eoal bins black as rnlt And they like to live there too They leep all day and dance all night Maybe you don t thrnk that s right For you do just the other way But rt rs for I heard one say FAIRY LAND Martha deSchwe1nrtz 3 Neath the moonbeams srlxer glow Lp and down to and fro Dante the fairies rn a row Now they re feasting on puffed rice Now they re riding on white mice Neath frost lamps flickering low 16 t :J I S ' ' ' A . ' ' 5 . 'rr A . . B. X , . Q S, 8 2 Q , , , x L . . , . . U . , Y .Q ., Q, H . . ' , ' I - 4 . Having gorged himself with their bodies, and drowsy with much wine, he lies , , . y K , . , . , v Q K . A . I . In - I . , - , - ' . ' Az, '35 , . . . , Q ' , Y . . -. . - I ' K , v I ' I - ry s 'Y , , , , By ' ' , ' 5 v r , , . . , , T 9 I .

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THE BUPTONIAN JUST ONIONS Bw Barbara Shaw 4 I realx c I should not breathe to a person one word wlth on1ons rmolved but I fetl that rn transferrmg thls to paper I wxll not be ostracxzed from soerety Omons What was the Almrjahty thxnl-.mg about when he made them7 Sueh quetr vegetable queer because of nts rndeserlbable flavor although the shape and .rppexrnnte of the omon rs most common 'very much llke the potato apple or beet To some people onxons are a sad and tearful subject another peculxarxty of thrs etable Strll thxs tearful breakdown IS only physxeal Only the real omon peeler cm enjoy the results of drsmantlmg th1s frrend and qu1te often enemy of mrnkxnel It 15 a very pleasant and amusxng feeling to cry for no real reason One feels xery pleased to know that he can appear very dejected and stxll be ln a happy frame of mmel It would be most traglc rf when peelrnv them one should brood over hrs own funeral or the death of the fHIU1IyS beloved dog In thls case the on1ons would cause quite a dlsaster Thelr peeling would be rnterrupted frequently by snrffs 1nd blows fof the nosej In fact the OHIOHS themselves mlght become so drenched retarded There IS the old saylng An apple a day keeps the doctor away Then the parody An omon a day keeps everyone away Th1s parody IS true only IH the humorous way Invarlably after I have enjoyed some raw on1ons fthe strongest lemdj eompany arrrves at the house Thls has happened so regularly that many tunes when I have been lonely I partake of the old relxables and sure enough 1n half an hour s tune some one lS callxng In the vegetable world omons are perhaps not the most popular but certarnly they have the most character In one of Bruce Bartons artrcles he says In order to be recognized by the world one should cultxvate h1s lfldlNldUZ1l hablts Dont follow the co'nmon herd be drfferent have your own ldeas and rdxosyncrasres Such rs the omon so different from the rest so outstanding' Outstandmg rn more ways than one fbefore and after devourxngj I do not belreve there is a person IU the Unlted States that does not know what an omon IS What would we do wlthout xt? Long lxve the omon NIGHTFALL ON THE LAKE Bv Louise Haldlman BW The settlng sun has gone to rest The sky rs drpped rn rose The farntest breeze comes through the trees The day draws to a close A rlppled wave leaps on the shore And sxnks upon the beach The new moon glowing rn the east Is just above beyond my reach My lake rs luke an ocean then Wxth ships far out at sea The Hreflles are my harbor lrghts That guide my shrps to me .. y lo L -. 1' r , J .7 . . , Y M ' D . 5- K .1 , ,. 6 V j j 8 ' ' - ' I I' I r ' , ' 1 ' fx ' -K Y Y 1 I v f , , x ' 7 .I x I L at I I I ig! 5 I It Wg al.. K , , .Q I . ' x ' ' . ' ' ' 1 ' . . . . 6 . Jlm, . that they would be useless.-In many ways the routine of the kitchen would be I - ' I kt Qi , ' . . V , ' . A - - , I V! I 7 , , . 1 4 ,

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THF IUPTONIIAN CMON OUI Errc Allen r P Passrng through the woods and helds one observes many thrngs I-Ie hears a norse rn a tree whrth he mry retognrze as that of a brrd of the arr or a squrrrel of the land He sees myrrrds of anrmals whreh he may or may not recognrze All the varyrnq aspeets of nature ehallenve and develop 1 persons powers of observatron If he rs a nature lover he wrll take advrntavt ef thrs and wrll be able to recognrze all n rture and other thrnffs by ear md eye A persons who spends hrs trrne undtr open skres comes to understand and rnterpret the physre rl world rn whreh he lrves so th rt he rue to ILQLIN rrrnse o r T us a person wrlkrng rn the woods can see a lrvrnf' tres. and realize that rf hc rs wasteful thrt tree must dre A lrttle squrrrel ehatterrng rn the tree tops rs all too apt to dre for the satrsfrctron of m rn s lust for krllrng or woman s desrre for a fur cort Perhaps the man may study and frrrd that wrld lrfe loves to lrxe and he wrll adjust hrmself to protect the wrld and not wastefully destroy rt If rnan protects and loses the woodland hrunts he wrll hnd that there are generous returns for hours spent far from the maddenrng., crowd He wrll be developed physrcally and mentally he wrll haxe r heart overflowrng wrth gladness brought on by a love for nrture He wrll thrrll to the song of a brrd the splash of antrcs of the stuprd poreuprne as he seeks refuge rn a Hfteen foot poplar tree All rn all he wrll be bountrfully rewarded wrth joy for hrs hours spent close to the wrld Lrfe out of doors rs rssocrated wrth many wholesome games and hobbres What would football baseball hockey or hrkrne be vvrthout access to a free spot unsporled by mans hand The astronomer and the botanrst all look to the unsporled parts of God s creatrons for therr hobbres and aetrvrtres and what hobby rs more wholesome or enjoyable than one whreh brrngs eontact wrth the world works of the Lord The path of he rlth le rds out of doors The tubercular patrent seeks the out of doors the fat one nr ry elrrnh mountrrns or preferably rrde horseback to reduce thc weak man seeks the naturrl erccrtrses to develop hrrrrself rnd hnds that he can I fret for every rll mentrl and physre rl there rs 1 Lure rn n rture In the forest the rrtrst wrll End much to admrre The outdoor world gxves man hrs most rnsprrrng errperrenee wrth be rrrty One hrs but to look around us now to see beauty rn every maple tree The leaves are a gorgeous color rnsprrrng to every parnter the huge prne trees sway majestreally rn the breeze and even lrtcle brrch trees seem beautrfully pert as auturnnal wrnds strrp them of therr leaves The rrpplrng brooks and bobbrng rabbrts even supply rnsprratron for poets All nature expresses beauty whrch we cannot destrrbe and whrch only God can create T0 WRITE A POEM Bw Mable Wrllranrs 34 The lrnes should have a number of feet The frrst rnd thrrd should rhyme There ought to be a eertrrn beat But then :would not be rnrne A poem has 1 swrng of lrnes Wrth prctrrres that I love to see Patterns done rn brrght desrgns But not rn poems done by me 'r I s L v I v - r 1 By 'N ' , J .. . G. .x ' . 1 .i N. K ' l K . . .Q 2 i . 'L I K . . K . ' 1 1 , 1 1 .ha V q ' 1 ' 1 ' ,Q 1 1 '. , I r' I.. I I :Il -I s I 1 1 I 1 ' 3 1 rszll' 1l Stl' flft 't. h 5 1 L 1 ' 1 J ' ' 1 1' . 1 . ' 1 1 E ky ' .I I L , ' 1 I 1 . I .' I 1 ' K , 2 I 'V s 1 . ' ' ' , a hsh as he throws his glistening body into the sunlight, and he will laugh at the . 1 1 . . Q x , H , Y V, , . . ' 3 1 . 1 . . 1 1 . e. ' '1 .1 1 1 ' ' 1' I ' 1 ' ' J 3 ' 5 : ' 1 , ' 'I . ' ' ' 5 1 . rr 1 ' . 1 ' 5 '1 , 1 ' ' 1 , 1 ' ' . ' ' ' 1 . 1: 1 I ' . H I 1 1 , I I - L ' . ' - ' 1 . .1 1 . 1 . . N I -T C - 1 1 . , K I 5 .