Camden High School - Megunticook Yearbook (Camden, ME)

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libliflllll - ' ' 7 .l.,1 ' 11 -5.4 , THE FIGHTIN'EST DOG This is a story of a dog and his family. It was told to me by a little cold lady who lived near my grandfather's. She had beautiful white hair, sparkling eyes, and could make the best little currant cakes I ever tasted. When I took her wild flow- ers, she would always say, Come in child, and sit down and eat a little cake while I tell you a story. Then she would begin. A long time ago when I was young like you-. It seems there was a family by the name of Yarrow who used to live on a farm near one of our western Maine rivers. There was Jim, a hard-working young farmer, Tamie, his wife, and their six year old boy, Toby. In the late summer some of the men who had gone down on the log drives would travel back up the River Road to go into the woods again. There was one who had al- ways stopped for a night's lodging and a meal or two with the Yarrows ever since they were married. He was Dan Calloway, a gaunt giant of a man to whom Jim and Tamie had become quite attached. The year our story opens he arrived just at nightfall accompanied by an awkward, red pup with a long ropy tail. The old fellow had been down with the fever and still seemed very sick and weak. f , - is Y Jim and Tamie put the old logger to bed, but he grew steadily worse through the night, speaking only with difficulty. Finally he whispered. Thank ye, Jim, all I got to give ye is Brick. He ain't much to look at, but he's wo-rth keepin'. His mother was a no count female, but his father was the fightin'est dog on the river. He shall be Toby's dog, Dan, prom- ised Jim pressing the old man's hand. Old Dan Calloway had made his last trip into the woods. The dog soon worshipped his devoted young master and many were the ad- ventures they shared. There was Toby's first day at school when Skip Harkness smeared wagon grease on Toby's face. Brick, who was never very far away, heard his master's cries, and soon, ar- rived on the scene, removed the seat from the bully's trousers, and escorted Toby home in triumph. The summer Toby was eight a travel- ing pedler with a bony old horse, red cart, and a big white dog on the seat be- side him, drove up and stopped in the dooryard. While he was trying topinduce Tamie to buy some gaudy shawls and laces, the dog trotted up to the d-oor of the woodshed where Pansy, Tamie's lit- tle gray cat, and her four kittens were sitting. Pansy flew at him and stood

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TI-IE MEGUNTICOOK - 13 growling and spitting on the threshhold. Just then Jim drove around the corner of the barn with a load of hay, Toby and Brick with him on the load. Brick took in the situation at a glance, shot from the load like an arrow, and rushed to the rescue. The white dog was so intent on teasing the cat he never sensed dan- ger until Brick set his teeth in his throat. The big dog leaped backward dragging his antagonist with him. Over and over they went snarling and slashing. Toby stood by his father's side with quivering chin. The pedler grabbed his whip, but Jim warned him back. It was to be a fair fight. At last red foam began to drip from the white dog's mouth and with one last plunge he fell limp over the victor. Only then did Brick let go his grip and dragged himself, bloody, torn, and trembling to the side of his master, eyes still green with the glint of battle. Jim picked Brick up and carried him to Tamie to dress his wounds. The pedler fussed and fumed but at last threw the body of the white dog into his cart and drove off up the River Road. Later one day that same fall when the oak leaves were dark and shiny, just like Tamie's hair Jim used to say, Jim, Tamie and Toby Went to Hempstead 15 miles down the river to get supplies, leaving Brick on guard. Returning they found no dog. Jim, T-oby, and the neighbors searched for him, but all the clues seem- ed to have no ending. It was reported that the pedler with the red cart had been seen in a nearby town on the day of Brick's disappearance but no trace of him could be found. That winter Toby caught cold and didn't seem to get over it. Kind old Doc- tor Wheelock came over from Pem- broke, but the little boy grew weaker and weaker. One windy March night Toby was ly- ing on the couch in the kitchen when there came a scratch at the door. It's Brick, he's come home, he cried. Jim sprang to the door and opened it. A gaunt red dog limped across the room, put his paws up on the couch and licked Toby's check, laid his head beside that of his little master. The boy's arms went around the thin neck of the dog. Jim drew Tamie down beside him on the wide old chimney-seat, and peace and quiet settled over the room, broken only by an occasional low, reassuring thump, thump of the ropy tail on the floor. Here the old lady looked away across the fields. Then turning to me again she murmured half to herself, That was a happy spring. I think, our happiest. Were you there? I asked. Yes, child, she answered softly, I was Tamie. Flora Pease, '44 SNOW DREAMS As Mom and I one evening, Were strolling down the street, The snow began falling gently, Covering us from our head to our feet. It was one of those silent snowstorms Which seem so still and serene, And we gazed about us in wonder, As it all seemed so like a dream. The trees soon wore coats of ermine, And the ground a blanket of white, As the evening shadows lengthened, Changing twilight into night. As we wandered silently hand in hand, We paused 'neath a bright street light, To watch each drifting crystal swirl Like stardust out of the night. And my thot's in comparison wander, To a warmer sunnier clime, Where someone we love is fighting, And I miss you, brother of mine. I think of you constantly, brother, And when snows begin to fall, I remember the walks we used to have, Happy memories I recall. And, dear, when this war is over And we've won our victory, Life for us will be even better, And for all boys across the sea. Maxine Duffell '46 -lCH'S-