Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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7 finished, Korn walked in. And to my surprise she told me the cake looked beautiful and. she said she could hardly wait to eat some. 1Je cooked supper and had the cake for dessert along with ice cream. I was cer- tainly pleased with all the praise I received from my mother on how good the cake tasted. T7y little brother said it was ood, too, and he suggested that we ive some away because it was so good; to be oiven to our dog. I guess the idea was not to have it last so long. Who knows? ? ? ? Donna Peaslee '65 THE STAR CHASE The story takes place on a small farm just outside of Hudson, New York. It was in the middle of the winter and there x as about three feet of snow on the rround. One day mv father told me to take the horse and ride up to the upper barn to see how the young cattle were coming along. The barn was four miles a ’ay and with so much snow on the ground it x ould be ureless to walk. I saddled up the mare and set out on a cold ride. The snox-7 started blow- ing and the wind was really strong. I I finally reached the barn but just as I started to ooen the door the cattle seemed jumpy. I opened the door and walked in. There was a strange smel3 in the air and I '-new something xifas -wrong. I walked oxxer co the pens and saw that one of the sides were ripped open. Inside the pen war the body of a calf half eaten by some large animal. The way that the body was torn aoart looked like the worV of a bear. None of the windox-rs were bro- ken and I ''new that the hear must have entered the barn by the hay shoot. I xrent back to the ’am to tell my father what bad hap- pened. As I was riding into the yard, I saw my father with a group of other farmers. I knew that something was up be- cause whenever they get to- gether, there is trouble some- where. As I listened to them I learned that the bear had destroyed their cattle and caused considerable damage to the buildings. The men made plans to hunt and kill the bear the next day. Mr. Wilson offered S 00 dollars to the person who killed the bear. Mr. Wilson was hit the hardest by the beast and he wasanxioua to see the bear dead. My father didn’t say any- thing about my going on the hunt. I arose early the next morning and did my chores in the barn. I wanted to get a head start before the men could stop me. The snox; had stopped fall- ing, but the wind was blowing strong. I headed for the up- per barn because I figured that was the last place where the hear had done any damage. I was just abovxt to open the barn door, when I heard a loud roar. It sounded like a demon from Hell. I stood in the doorway, petrified and stunned. There before me was a lar e black bear standing

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8 over the body of a dead calf. The bear must have been just as surprised as I was, because it jumped off the floor when he saw me. The bear stood there, looking me in the eyes wondering whether to stay or run. He decided to run just as fast as he could to the nearest door. He did not both- er opening the door; he just plowed rirht through it. I could hear the bear go tearing down the mountain. It sounded as though ’-e were fly- ing head over heels and olow- ing through everything in his 59th. A few minutes later, I heard a few shots. I knew the men must have caught up with the bear. In a little while, I saw my father riding up to the barn with the bear. He said that he saw the bear coming down the mountain just as fast as he could go. The bear finally stopped when he hit a lar'e tree and that was when Dad shot him. As for the reward money, it was split between Dad and me. Raymond Love joy '63 THE GRIM TRAD ETT (This is a true story; only the names have been changed.) My story begins as a typi- cally gay Labor Day week-end. This soon became a traved.y for a Connecticutt family, to whom I shall refer as Budd and Jean Evans. The Evans family wap visit- ing a relative, John Manley, who lived in Richford. Mr. : anley lived on c. fern and, as ve all ’row, c’tm c :ld co are fascine ted by a. fa? m, r. and ' . s. vans had three chil on: Danny, 8; Donna, L.; anc Pamela 3 ears of a-3. '.fter a delicious Sunday dinner, tic family plannee to visit another relative who liv5d nearby. The children wore 0: ''ssed in their Sunday Best and given permission to play while their mother fin- ished the dishes. The child- ren decided to go to the barn to olay with the new-born kit- tens in the hay loft. Fifteen minutes later the thirty-three year-old-mot’ er looked out the window and saw the barn en- gulfed in flames. Terrified, she ran toward the barn, but it was too late. The flames and intense heat were too great. She had to be forcibly restrained from entering the barn. Mr. and Mrs. Evans were both taken to a hospital in St. Albans and treated for shock. Meanwhile, the grim search for the three small children beman. The thirty by sixty foot -am was filled with hay and although it had been burned to the ground, the hay was still blazing. Firemen, state police, and volunteers ' egar sifting through the hay with pitchforks for the small bodies. The search was halted about 6:00 P.M. when the tiny bodies of Donna and Pamela Evans were found. It was a- gain continued, however, when the body of Danny was not dis- covered. Darkness forced the searchers to stop late Sunday night. Early Monday morning the search was again continued.