Colonel E Brooke Lee Middle School - Cougar Yearbook (Silver Spring, MD)

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Benny Gumbates David Delmar Benny Gumbates, the fisherman, was truly a man of great strength and stature. The Atlantic Ocean was his fishing hole and his swimming pool. Occasionally, he would step over to the Great Lakes for a footbath. He started each day by swimming a few laps across the Atlantic. Just for recreation, he would rope a couple of whales, place a foot on each whale's back, and have an exciting chariot ride across the deep blue sea. He had caught and conquered many demons in the dark waters off the coast: squid, octopus, and ser- pents. The real challenge came when he ran into the great white shark Jowls.', Jowls had just attacked the steamship, Queen Mary, and was viciously ramming her bow with his snout. Stop that , roared Benny, in a voice that could be heard in Cleveland, Ohio. Make me, snarled the irate shark, as he made a giant tidal wave with his tail. Benny ignored the rushing water, and carefully picked up the steamship, and placed it in a safe part of the ocean. All the passengers cheered as Benny plucked Jow1s teeth from his enormous ugly mouth. That was the end of Jowls terrorizing the Atlantic for awhile. He flapped his tail one last ripple and swam to the floor of the ocean to grow a new set of teeth. My Brag Elayne Kriss My name is Ezekiel Clampet, Zeke for short. In the Kentucky wilderness where I live there are so many gol durn turkeys that there's not enough room for all of them to fly at once. Ican shoot all of their feathers clean off and shoot them back on again, I can. I can wrestle at least ten alligators at a time, mebbe twenty. After that, am I tired? No siree! When I'm done with them there 'gators, I run thirty miles to my cabin so fast I git there an hour before I started. Porcupine wrestling is my favorite. Why, I can wrestle with that old porcupine for hours on end and never get stuck with a quill. Q But jumpin' is the thing I do best. I reckon there ain't nobody in Greenmeadow County what can out- jump me. I can jump from one end of the county clear to th'other side. Yes siree, I reckon I can out- jump, outrun, outshoot, and outwrestle anybody in the whole of Greenmeadow County, Larkspur Coun- ty, Juniper County and any other durn place in this here world! THE WORLD OF THE KING Nicole Jean Sideris A long time ago, Lived a King in a castle. Rich and handsome Was he. A life any fuller No one could find, Not even across The wide sea. One day the enemy came to the gates And took all the people away But inside the castle, Which stored no hassle, The King decided to stay. All alone was he, For the servants had left, And the joker was gone, too Among his great wealth And much pampered health, The King was very blue. Oh, The wardrobe was fine, And the food was superb, And the cupboard was certainly not bare But, Woe, Thought the King, What good are these things If there's no one with whom To Share? 33

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Black Frank Melissa Panich Black Frank was a very large farmer reaching 6 foot 4 inches. He had a long black bushy beard and piercing dark eyes. His monsterous hands had a mag- ical quality for setting broken bones. Although Black Frank had no medical back- ground, he would just come to small towns to sell his produce. After awhile people began to hear of his magical qualities and would be waiting for him anx- iously for help. Many stories have been told of how he would place his hands on the injured area and feel, twist, turn and bend until it had been fixed. One of Black Frank's most unusual events was when he healed a boy that had fallen off a cliff. The boy had to be carried home because he couldn't walk. They waited until Black Frank came to town. It was said that he took the boy by the neck and began twisting and manuvering him and that screams could be heard for miles around. When Black Frank was finished the boy was able to walk again. Black Frank would come and go just as mysteri- ously as his hands could repair broken bones, and improve sprained ligaments and muscles. Alison Breeze HAIKU The night has fallen everyone is fast asleep except the crickets. I . Sr 4 I ,li r ll ll F 'O N 39 . 2 . M 'If 'N fi, 'f xx 4 if fl, I , 'vg ur ' rl'-l ll 'l l ' .'TK, 42 Spring Lisa Stewart Spring is when the birds begin to sing again. Flowers and trees begin to bloom. Spring smells good, the fragrance of the new flowers mixed with the early morning dew. Spring also means summer is very close. The air is warm, school seems long, but the day drags on. The best part of spring is vacation, when it can be enjoyed fully. Heliotrope Jeanie Nairn You probably won't believe this story, but ...... I will tell it anyway. This story is about a hippo- potamus, whose name is Heliotrope. Well, Heliotrope likes to swim in the Gatun Lake. She swims around the lake and just has a good time. But Heliotrope's favorite place is at the School of the Americas in Panama. The cadets at the School of the Americas see Heliotrope everyday, and she looks so skinny that they have to give herhtheir leftover lunch. After lunch Heliotrope always takes a swim. So, Heliotrope went for a swim to the Gatun Locks. Heliotrope wanted to go through the locks to explore. So they charged her 3.50 to get through. Luckily she had some money with her. Heliotrope got part way through the locks, but then couldn't get the rest of herself through. She stayed there for 2 weeks. Everybody thought she'd be skinny enough to go through the locks but she wouldn't budge. So they called the most popular doctor in the whole world. The doctor gave Helio- trope some diet pills but that didn't work. By then 20 ships were waiting to get through the canal. One guy said, Let's get 5 truckloads of soap and slide her out. They tried but that didn't work either. Another guy said, Why don't we take Hercules , the biggest crane in Panama, and lift her out? They tried but she was so fat that she busted the crane. Then a man that used to sell balloons in Washington, D.C. pumped Heliotrope full of air, painted Good Year on her side, put a motor on her back and now she floats around Washington in the air, with a cage full of people underneath, sightseeing.

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