Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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12. A greet many things kept her in the back part of the house, and when she wes through with then it was quite dsrk. Mr, May was coning down fron his study ready for his six-o'clock dinner. Only when Laddie had been put to bed and she and Mr. May returned to the parlor did she remember her hundred-dollar bill, and hurried to the piano to get it. Oh, dear, how careless I an! she exclrineu. You nay be sure Mr. May agreed with her, especially when they discovered that neither on the niano nor anywhere else could that money be fohnd. They looked everywhere. The front door being fas-- tened,no cne could have got in that way. The nurse was out. Their rood, faithful Matie had not been out of Mrs. May's sight for a moment before dinner. Since Mr. May hinself had not left the parlor, they finally came to the conclusion that Laddie was the guilty one. They questioned hin that night, but he declared ho did not take it. He said his little evening prayer at his mother's knee, and then he went to bed and to sleep and forgot his troubles. In the morning he again told of his innocence. Still as there was no one else to blame, he night hove remained undfer suspicion olweys if it had not been that a few nights after, Mrs. fay was awakened by hearing some one down in the parlor striking a key on the piano. She and her husband got up, and together they went in search of the intruder. Again the search seemed useless to her, but Mr. May,suddenly noticing fragments of pa ,r scattered over the piano-strings, lifted the lid and found the thief. The thief was a Tittle mother-mouse, with a helpless family around her. As part of the nest in which they were cradled, really and truly was that one-hundred-dolla.r bill which Laddie was thought to have taken. Mr. and Mrs. May were very sorry they had suspected their dear little boy end very ha jpy that he was innocent. Sybil Geno '53 Miss Gates: ‘Alfred, how many days ere there in a ycer?' Alfred C; Three hundred end sixtv five end a fourthv Miss Getcs: ‘Kow can there be a fourth of a day? ‘'Why there's the Fourth of July,'' Alfred:

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13. WHAT RC ZRT FZR-C.’S CALLS PUN One day Robert Perkins and some of his classmates de- cided to climb Mt. Tim. They started one Sunday morning last summer, from Robert's house with Robert's old car. There was four of them in all. It was ten miles from Bob's house to the foot of the mountain. ■ Don't you think that it will rain? asked Jim. You know the top of your car, Bob, isn't too good. Yes, I know, Jim, but I don't believe it will rain this afternoon, answered Bob. Deciding to go, they all jumped into Bob's car and start- ed for the mountain. They were traveling right a.long when Bill asked, You are going oretty fast for'this car aren't you, Bob? it.1 Oh, no, 3ill, my car is o.k., although it doesn't look I don't care, but we are going too fast. If we had a flat tire, we might take the ditch and get hurt, broke in J im. Bmg 1 There I told you, Bob, I told you we would have a flat tire, be are lucky that we didn't get hurt, - xcl dried Bill. Oh, the hole in the road made the tire blow out. It was in good condition. Furthermore that is the only weak s;aot in the car, answered Lob. Have you any snare, Bob? asked Jim. No, but I have a repair kit. We can fix it in no time. Oh, yes, returned Jim, but how are we voing to jack it up to get the wheel off? Oh, you boys can lift it up, and I'll take the wheel off, exclaimed Bob. So you've got it all figured out. ife will do the work and you will do the easiest part. You should do the heavy work and let the rest of us watch you. If you had paid a little attention to us we wouldn't have had the flat, snapped 3111. Finally, after some arguing the boy's lifted the car and Bob took the wheel off. They fixed it and were on