Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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THE FIRST TIME I DROVE A TRACTOR 10. One day after dinner, when I was a little boy about five years old, Father pushed back his chair from the tsble, picked up the news-paper and began to read it. I went to get ny coat to go out, but before I went out I asked, Father, what are you going to do this afternoon? He looked up from the paper and said, I am going to take the tractor and pull those stones out of that meadow near the pasture. As I walked out of the house he said, Would you like to go along and help? Yes I replied. So when father came out of the barn with the tractor and wagon, I jumped on and rode to the field. Wo pulled big stones out and put them on the stone pile. The little stones we put on the wagon and drew them to the stone pile. The cows were standing near the fence. Father saw them and looked at his watch. It was past time to get the cows. Then father turned and said, Will you take the tractor home? Yes, I replied. So I got on the tractor and drove it across the field, but soon, I came to the hen house. I turned the tractor sharply around the corner. All of a sudden the tractor's steering wheel turned. I stopped the tractor. I looked and I could not believe what I saw. I had run into the hen house. I shut off the motor and ran to the house. At the house my mother was making cookies - my special kind of cookies. Mother said, Would you like a cookie? No, I replied. By that time I was getting rather shaky. Mother noticed this and said, What is the matter? OhjI ran into the hen house with the tractor, and broke the tractor, I replied. When I told Father he did not think very much of his tractor being broken. He soon had it fixed, but I did not drive it much for a long while after. Gery Stanley '57

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THE TROUBLES OF WHITEY AHD SPECKLES 11. Old Mother Speckles wss in trouble, ond Teddy was the one who wss to blame for it all. Teddy didn't mean to get Old Mother Speckles in trouble end if he hed been born on the farm like his cousin Sally, all this wouldn't hove happened. But Toddy was born in the city end hod lived in the city, so he didn't know much about a farm. When he cane from the city to live with his Uncle Will end Aunt Ads, ho didn't know a thing obout the farm. Why when they told him to sec if the hold back was fastened, or to buckle the throat letch he didn't know whet they meant. But he liked the country; he liked to drive old Topsy, end pretty soon he could do c lot of chores, without making many mistakes. After he had been there a while, Aunt Ada told Teddy, I thin’: you've been here long enough to have some real things to do, so you con look after the poultry. Sally showed'her cousin how to feed end water the hens end tha ducks. She showed him about the nest eggs, how to always leave the chine c:;g in the nest, so the hens would keep on laying in the some nest. She showed him how to sot the hens ond ducks. Old Mother Speckles was r Plymouth Rock hon, end Miss Whitey was a ekin duck. Pekin ducks are always white end Plymouth Rock hens aro rather speckled. Now Mother Speckles began to stay on her nest end so did Whitey, the duck. Teddy esked Aunt Ada if he could 3et them both, end Aunt Ado sold, Of course, you may, but you know Speckles will hatch hor chickens before Whitey does her baby ducks, for it takes ducks eggs a week longer to hatch. When Teddy got the eggs end put them under Speckles, she said, Cluck, Cluck, Cluck , which meant, Now, wasn't he a good boy I He put eggs under Whitey, and her nest was all lined with feathers. She was glad too, but she made some pretty queer noises, when he was trying to get the eggs under her. Speckles was getting discouraged sitting on the eggs so long. It seemed os if she hod never sat so long before, but after a while she begen to hear the Peep peep in the eggs, end soon she hod the nicest family of yellow chicks. She could hardly believe her own eyes; they were not bleck at all She finally decided she would take her family out looking for worms.