Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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r dc V’C. lain ao long, I noticed it w,.c tiny insect village. Little jcija'i -vers interwoven over its surface and every so of’c-cr. a holo i.- jj oux rov ed into the earth and formed a little tunnel. Jnconsciousl rj X ‘be'T.n smoothing the little oaths and filling in the holes with rr forefinrer. This gave me a feeling of satisfaction in v hicn I indul ocl for a while. But suddenly I felt a share main and pulled oac.: rr.y hand in treat surprise. I discovered a tiny stream of blooa floeing -to the little cafcaus of my fingerprint, and a bumo Y as already begm- nilg to rise . This promised to be very sore. Ouch, I deefsod aloud, I have been bitten, and I shall seek my revenge. I laughed a minute at the melodrama in my statement, and I niched uo a share stone and quickly crushed the little ant. Suddenly I turned for no apparent reason, and saw a little man beside me. He criea out inouisivoly at me, Oh, but you shouldn’t have. I looked down in amazement ne. 'Ho was no larger than your uniform of exquisite tailoring, the sun. He looked at me again n’t have. at the statc-ly little fellow watching lit Me finacr, and he wore a trim green with buttons that shone like the rays o and repeated softly, Oh, but you shoul '•Thy not? I demanded angrily. He bit me! Phat is it to you? 7ho are you anyway? ky name is Security, said the little man. It is for me that men desire hemes. It Is for me that men fight for their hones,and » added, it is for ne that they die for their homes. he looked o.,rnD3t- 1-r at the insect and turned challongingly back to me, He was but -an insect, I erica, a tiny insect, an ant, and this is my land. Ind his ho 10, reminded the little man. He had made his home her and his community. He built his roads and raised his family, md you, said the little man, erased it all. Do you blame him for biting you. For fighting for his home and security? Wouldn’t you. have done the same The- sun was warm against my back, but I shivered, Wouldn’t I hav done the same? I out the finger in my mouth and licked my wound. I «. tho :ght for a long tine. If 1 could but bring the poor tiling back to life - - But I couldn’t. The ant was dead, and I had killed it. I could only pick it up, poke a little hole in the sand ana cover it ten- derly. This I did and I turned eagerly toward the little man. But the little man was gone. Jane Gates ’48 All UNBX UCTED BATH IN JANUARY It was a nice winter day planned to go ukating on the in January. The boys of Jeffersonville river that night, if the moon v;a3 nice

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9. Tr.at nig.it the boys gst ready early and Joe walked over to the fija with ?oa. Everyone was looking foreward to the contest between Fete and Com. The referee made both boys understand that it ..as to be a fair f iglit. •Then om and Pete got in the ring, the olace rang with cheers end then quieted suddenly as the whistle ble',7. In the first round the fight v?as very close. 3ut in the second round Pete, determined to win, tripped Pom and the strict referee called the bout. Pete was in a rage and Pern did 't like it either because it did- n't settle the thing that had to be settled. '•Then they had gone to the locker room, Joe, having a hunch th t something -vac going on, ’.vent into the looker room and sure enough,Pete and Tom were finishing it up. 1 Stand back, kid, Tom muttered when he saw Joe's lc k. keep out of this. 3o Joe did oven if it was hard. But someone else had conceived the same idea that Joe did- hr. Harder, the boy's club leader. There was supposed to bo no fighting in the gym outside of the ring. That was a strictly kept rule and when hr. 3ardcr saw the fight,he asked, '.That's going on here? The boys shot a glance at hr. Harder but went back to their fight quickly, Haven't you boys read the rule book that's been around hcret hr. Harder asked. You shall both bo suspended from the club for two months. Yes,sir, said Tom, for the fight was over now. But ' etc didn't know a thing that -as happening. He was out cold. lladeline Jette '5C THE LITTLE SCAN It wae one of tlvase lazy days in late July. The sun was warm a- gair.st my back, and somewhere near me a fly buzzed persistently. I reached out with ay foot and kicked a rock over, tingling with excite- ment as it unbled over the ledge, hen I examined the place where the

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Ii. :nd toightv The boys asked Joe, ■Thy don’t you set v0Ur dad's truck and take us boys skating on the river tonight? v .Toll, Joe said, Dad may not like the idea. to aayfyesy0 . 4 ,,U “ hlB' ThSn h8'U br » « W»Ur Okey, Joe answered. That night when Joe had rounded up all of the older boys • ®LarteS lor bh® rivcr» which was one and one-half miles west of ' the town. Bob and Tom were riding in front with Joe. Cone on.Joe. speed it up. Bob urged, ' ° , ,.tou tbia isn’t my truck. If I smashed this truck, mother an . cu.d would never let me use it again. If it were mine I 'wouldn’t care, Joe replied, nor Snood01}?- ,To+ 3aVH T nt 6ot- there tonight- not tomor- Junk ii ?0 r t isn’t very fast for Ws junk. j, s r1' C Thj,t s a11 t ie more reson 'hy c shouldn't o Too fast. This truck is going to fall aart some day, the driver said. . . 'nc 11 thc back of the truck were hollft’in- and shouting to hurry so Joe kept going fastor, til they sailed. ‘1-rG ,G °ing fast enough now,boys? ' Joe hollg cd above the ongine• Can you go. any faster? No, guess not. Jell, maybe we'll ct there tonight, anyway, The boys in the bsk wore daredevils and thov sat on the ed c of the truck ready to ium? off when the truck stopped. The road followed thc river and Joe wanted to take the old road tat w nt off thc main road so they could stop at the old barn and ohu boys 'oul.i have a 'ood olace to put on their skates. Bob opened thc cab door ready to jum out. Joe slowed down a little but just as he swung off to the slderoad tooths old. barn, Bob •’io had thc door open, foil out, rolled in the snow to thc edge of too river, and fell in. Joe stooped thc truck and thc bovs heloed rull Bob out of the ri.ver. ( The river was about three feet from the edge of the road and was so thin in this soot that? Bob had broken •thfo' o .’hcn he landed on it.) The boys hurried Bob into the truck. :o left thc boys at thc river to skate while he took Bob home before he caught pneumonia. Well, Bob said as they neared home, that's the first time I ever took a bath in the river in January. Rosemary Jotte '51