Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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l,l7'El311RY liencl rested. Pollyl Polly! NV:tlce up, Polly! Yer ein't dezul is yer, Polly? ,Plense eonie hnek I need yer l My yeller mztdness got the hest of ine l I kin see so soon how mean Pve been to yer! .lust pleztse Uilllit yer eolne hzteli l Hut there wns no response-Polly haul gone never to come hawk l Between sohs :tncl snuflles Amos was zthle to kneel over Polly :tncl to szty :Lloncl this verse from the I-Ioly Book, which he haul often heard his futher reed,- 'lThere lStililiflllll.lC0l,i1 hiineelf rieh, yethnth nothing: There is tlmt nmlceth himself poor, yet hath greet riches? ALIC'lE DYER '30 SPRINGTIME THOUGHTS I woke up in the enrly morn Feeling snrl :Incl all forlorn, But when I heard the babbling brook And sew the bright green grassy plain, My thoughts were of another vein. l thought of ull the birds that sing, As from the South lend, new they Wing Their happy wuy toward Cnseo Huy, Where in tall pines they build their nest, 'Flint serves izhexn for their Slll'lllllUl'7S rest. I i.il0llg'lll'. of countless wintry streams Thnt free themselves from iey dretuns, And wake again to active life, And gently flow mid ITIOSS :md flowers Where snnnner hnilcls her secret bowers. GLADX'S OLIVER ,257 Zl

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THE OLARI ON 'is I1lO1'DlD,? Polly lonesome yes'day, Daddy-please--ain't yer gonna let us go Daddy ? Shut up! Stop yer whinin'l Ain't I thinkin' on th' sub- ject? W al, if it'll sats'fy yer any, and seein' yer ainlt been down fer two weeks, Pll let yer go-if you and Bruno will keep from under hoof l Understand ? Yes, Daddyf, said Polly, her face beaming with pleasure, I'll promise to be real awful-the goodest l kin be, if ye'll let Polly go ln Grit on yer duds then, an' make it snappy. I'm late as it is this mornin', an' if I find yer loiterin' behind, Pll give yer th' Willer switch and send ye home I U nderstand? Whereupon they set out for the mine. Inside of a half hour Amos was at his work with his partners, Felix and Jim. Polly 77 and Bruno scampered over the piles of discarded ore, ran through the shafts and tunnels in order to keep from under hoof? I judge we'd better git busy an' blast the inner vein this rnornin', said Amos to Felix and Jim. I will be our last ehanee of gitting anythin' outa this cursed mineg so might as well git it did up quick, eh ? They all agreed and soon the holes were bored for blasting, and the tapers were lighted. The three men ran back at a sen- sible distance from the mine-then BANG- l-up went dirt and rock into the air-and with a terrible crash came down to earth I Wal, if there ainit any gold in that there middle vein now -I'll eat my Sl1lI't-UllKlCl'StfLllil ? laughed Amos hysterically. He was the 'lirst one to reach the middle vein, and there his eyes feasted upon the glittering nuggets which studded the sul- len walls. Ah l Here it is l I l1ave found it li' he shouted to his partners. ILM was certainly here,-yes, there with him-not in the Walls, but at his feet-there it lay, his only daughter, Polly, her golden hair mingled with the yellow nuggets on which her 20

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THE ULARI ON Qfulius Caesar Caius Julius Caesar was born July 12, 100 B. C. in Rome, in Italy, and in the night. During his life he was a very un- happy man. To be more explicit he had four different wives fat different times, of eourse.j If Caesar had lived at the present day, there is no doubt in the minds of those competent to judge that he would have been a great moving picture actor. That he had all the qualilications is shown by the number of his marriages. But being cruelly prevented by lack of opportunity from embracing the calling for which he was so admirably fitted, he decided to become a soldier. He gradually rose to be tl1e commander of a legion and fin- ally he became virtually a dictator-an absolute ruler not one who gives dictation. He had one favorite legion gathered from all parts of the republic every soldier of which Caesar was per- sonally acquainted with and at whom fso he boastedj he could swear in his own language. The Gauls were getting very troublesome to the Roman fron- tiersmen, taking pot shots at them from behind trees and letting the air out of their tires when they werenit lookingg so Caesar Sharpened up his scalping knife and started to clean them out. In the course of this cleaning, he played mean tricks on them. All the Grauls got so sore at him and the rest of the Romans that their bitterness has been proverbial ever since. Space prohibits my entering into details on the campaign, but I will mention one incident that received quite a write-up from the paper. Kaiser Bill and the German army were on one side of the Rhine and Caesar and the Dagoes on the other. Communication between the two armies was almost impossibleg so Caesar conceived the idea of building a bridge. In the con- struction of this bridge he used tive legions, 700 tons of cement, 3 tons of TNT, four weeks, and several volumes of cuss-words. ' 22