Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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I?. After cat in the deli si: us lunch I decided, to try out the other buttons, I found on narked, You Favorite 'ovic, so I pressed it, A monent later a ocreae sh t up fron th floor and a voice from the ceiling said, This is a Twentieth Century Fox oroduction of '. eckcr.d in the Country'. The picture v; ?wonderful. Then, I had to try all the other buttons, so I next picked one marked , Your Horning ‘'haper'.' A slot in the 'jail opened and a sheet cf paper cane rolling out. It contained th v-ry lat.st n.us and ny favor- ite comics. After looking at the pap r I decided I would like a nice warn bath, so I found the button’with the right narking and crossed it, jly b d folded up into the will and out cane th. bathtub. The soap and towels were there, too. After ny nice wan bath I look-d over the buttons again, I found one that so.id, Your 'York All Done for You. Oh Boyi' I thought, I will cress that one. I did. But out cane all the modern things to do it with, . hat a disappointment that wasI .ts I renonbered I had a stry t' write f or M'as in the aft erne on I decided to or sc the button narked, School -Vork Done for You . The voice fron the ceilin'-' asked, .' hat do you want, Joyce? This is your teacher, ’iss Go-tes, nd I, in a frightened voice replied, -s. short story for class tomorrow. Thy Jovee, returned th. voice fron the ceiling, You must write y-ur own story. I gave it to y-u t- write and Icon't write it for you. You rust hay.e the buttons nixed up. I I looked carefully and pressed it gain. Then I heard a voice that said, You get up this minute, Joyce Elsworth, or you'll be late for school and you haven't got your homowork done ywt. ' It was ny mother, was safe in ny own bed. It was ]ust a dream after all, J-'yee Elsworth '53 THE .JIT OF GETTING INTO TROUBLE Getting into trouble cones $»turai to ne and is, therefore, an ar in which I excel.. One exap.riencw which is brought to ny mindful shouldn’t say brought. It has n v r left and I don’t believe it over will.) took Place while the family and I were on a camping trip. Now I call ray self an honest fellow and will tell you ri ht now that I'm the kind of uy who’s always doing somethin; the opposite '.ray •U-cm, other peoole would do them.’ ( A second Thomas Edison, if y u know ! h I nean.

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 I 77iah y-,u 77'uid buy ne a ticket back to thw city, he beg'ed. ell, iark replied, I’a nc.arly broke nyeolf,but I’ll tell you v h.at I'll do. You con cv70.77I und-r ny s-at, end I'll hid- you -oith ay legs. (ion) agr-- to this pl?.n. Th- Hark T7-nt to th- ticket of.ic , ana bought tvro tickets. 7h-n thw train pulled out (Ton) v as und-r th- s-at. Th- conductor cone throught £or th- tickets, and iA .rk hin tv o. The conductor said, ! 'Thy tv:o tickets? Hark said, Oh, I thought I would buy tvro , and have an extra one do h- hand d th conductor both of then, 3ut the conductor said, I thou ht you were .going to save one. You nay have th-n, I don’t ooant then, said Hark. That did you buy then for; th conductor asked. By this tine Ton v as getting nervous, so he canc out and thv con- ductor asked, That ar- you doing? Oh, said Ton, I 7:as tired , so I thought I r ould lie dovm und-r the s-at. Mark began to laugh, a nd so did the conductor. So you tri-d to play a trick on no. . ell I guess You Th - conducton took th t770 tickets one v alk-d off. 'iVhcr , said Ton, that V7as a clev.r trick Sybil G-eno 1 53 IT ITJST K iV2 3ZE1-: 30HET I.:G I «TE Last- ni'-ht I awoke about tr elve o'clock, and ai' in the ybar of 1975. On my night stand I found a A flUBn out cons all narked with Wines. The first one said Trod , so I pushed it , as -’■pod thin 3 to eat ?.ro very tenpting to no. A voice coning. fron the calling asked, '.That ’.vill your or r be? Then I , in a frighten-d little voice, answered, piece of oolcc and iglaos ff nilk. Like m ic, the side of th- 77all opened up, and th rw sat ny ceu and ny nilk. . In ny alipp-rs I '.Talked to th- tablo and founa , to ny surprise , that it v as r-al.

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18. Our catn was located on the shore of a boautiful lake hi-.h in the mountains of Vernont. Ut least, I think it’s in Vermont. By the time - done driving I didn’t know hut what we were in Connecti- cut ) vf finSlv arrived with just two flat tires on the way which is «cut-i rin 'il- considered orotty good luck for the shape of the roads. After yetting unpackc$aaae sett ed aown, I bocOTiee restless and ay ingenious mind immeadi- ' atoly oegan to function. To nysclf I said, The j, T old cor' skipped pretty badly coming uo. Guess - 11 , zt look her over add sec what I can do. X started my interprisc with proctoly the e V J'-'iLa.: snallest assortment of tools ever used to tear down a notor. ( I started :ut to cl an the spark plays, but one thing led to another.) The to ls c nsistcd of a Jack, tire levers, lug wren- ches, an adjustable wrench, and a pair of pliers. .»s anyone knows., a person doesn't need a Jack, tirv, levers, or a lu wrench for motor work, but ,nevertheless, I kept then handy just in case. ( You never know what has to cone off next.) I started like a mechanie. with fifty years’ experience. Oh sure, I knew what I was do in:;. T thought. Just one air» nut and I’ll have the top off this Jig-cr. bonder what’s in- side! Huh! Hothing but a bunch of wires. Maybe if I change ’em arour a little the old girl will run better. I did a lot of tinkering before I noticed the shadows w re begin- ning to lengthen, and then I be an putting things back together (start I looked down at the parts lying around and was doumbfounded, Whcnc in the world had I -athorod all those nuts, screws, bolts, and Junt 1 I was flabbergasted, but they can’t say I didn’t try. No sip! That That motor went back together in a hurry. ( The next day a mechanic carte uo and out it together a little ffiffcnantly than I did. My stre! of genius cost me five weeks' allowance and a ruined refutation as a mechanic.) Later in the week I was tryinr; out a new brand of cigarettes one night in bed, and having out in a strenrus day ( d ing oractically nr ino;) I 'was very sleepy, and fell asleep with a Chesterfield dro oin from my mouth. It was a short sleep, very short. Then I awoke I re- alized what a smoking ham must feel'like. Luckily, my room was facin the lake, for out went -no of my mother’s best blankets into th wat„ It was recovered the next morning, and since I was, or my folks thou; I was,too young to smkc I took my meals standing up for the next fee days. Another little incident was the falling out of the boat in ny Sunday best after unccssfuliy trying to start the confounded motor. But -why should I kick? I didn’t accidentally kill anyone, and that’e, something. Alton Lothian '48