Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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1 'H 19' ULARI ON muster eonvulsing on the ground in the ngonies of death. She ren forward, lifted his heard with her left hatnd while with her right she pounded him on the lmek. From his lips issued eel- estiall sereums of agony. Then she awoke and to her surprise she could still hear him howling. lVhen she hind 'fully gained consciousness, she perceived that she wus sitting up in bed pulling Cztes:tr's hair with one hztnd and hitting him with the pillow with the other while l1e was hollering nt her to stop. She thought this wus un omen of the gods und tried to dis- suade him from going to the Sennte, yet in spite of her he in- sisted upon going. As he :tpproaehed the Senate house, the String Beans crowded nround him and pretended to show pet- itions about the hill relnt-ive to the reduetion of urmnments of l,m,hy eztrriztges on the Forum. lVhen he wusn't looking, they turned their nnufhine guns on him and converted him into :L sieve in un instant. He, gzrthering his tiogn nround him und summoning his lust strength, gasped out the words, Prunes--p1'unes-- Etltxvoi-Brutiis. Surely we are entirely lnelcing in appreciation of heroism if we do not ugree with Knot Muehov Ennithin in saying, Julius Catesur wus at wise old geezer, He froze off his feet in nn lee ereann freezer. DANIEL TUTTLE '29 Sllllffeb GRIIDICS Diane Fair, breathless utter :L i'ltLl'C-lgitU1G of tennis, sunk down on the soft green luwn. Dimmu Fair, fuir not only in name but in all qualities OfCl12Ll'21CtC1', had seen seventeen summers, sum- mers of perfect lmppiness. Dizn'nt's eyes were hlnek, her hair was bluek, and the eolor of her eheeks and lips indicated the 24

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.l,lTEIiA.1iY One moonlight night the Kziiser went out to reeonnoiter. As Virgil expresses it, Kaiser Bill went up the hill, To get :L look :it Frzinee, Kaiser Bill, eaune down the hill VVith bullets in his paints. This quiekly brought matters to an head. Nviillfillll ordered :in advance across the bridge. Unknown to the enemy Caesar had put several tons of high explosive under the bridge and when the Gernnms stepped onto it they started heavenward in more ways than one. A tobneeo box, which was zrfterwsrrd identiiied :Ls belonging to the Kaiser, was reeentl y pieked up near Paris. Otherwise no traee has been found. In ai syndicated newspaper article on the nnlssnere, ll. Gernuui soldier expressed it as follows. I stood on the bridge :tt midnight C To get some refreshing airg The bridge went out from under me And left me standing there. There wars :in arssoeintion of men in Rome, led by Caesars friend, Brutus, known as The Royal Order of String Beans. These men were unable to find anything to cure their excessive lezznness. Brutus linally appealed to Caesar, who was something of u, Scientist. For many days Caesar worked on the ease but was unable to iind il remedy. The String Beans, b1'oken-hezLrt- ed, formed 2l.COl1SPi1'2l.Uy to kill him. Only two days before the appointed 2LSSll5Sillil.'LiOll Caesar, burning the midnight oil, dis- eovered that prunes would eure the zmilment. 7 The very night before the crime, his wife, Calpurnia, had the nightm:u'e :md dreanned that she saw il plum tree, and while she watched, the plums dried up and became prunes. She saw her husband approach and begin to eat the prunes, she saw him ehoke on am prune stone and then to her horror saw her lord and 23

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Ll 'l'ElB11lif.l perfect health of her well developed body. Sprawled full length at her feet lay her partner of the tennis game, Anthony McRae. Tony's full length measured on the lawn a good tive feet ten. The l.l1'lglltSl1lll111Gl' sun brought out well the contrast between his light eurly hair and Dianzfs dark hair. Tony was nineteen, a brilliant scholar and, better than that, was blessed with that gift of the gods, personal magnetism. The homes of these two had always been side by side, as had Di. and Tony until now they were graduated from high school. They had had much in common : They were each star athletes and had won honors for their school and for themselves in that field. They were in the same. social set whe1'e each was pop- ular. -But why go on? They we1'e, after all, merely normal happy youth, youth as it should be. After three ties, Tony McRae, you should admit that I'1n as good at tennis as you are. Q I:Iaven't I admitted it a hundred times, Di,-to myself? laughed her companion. Well, I have to dress for dinner. -AIHLISG, yourself during my absence. A On the following day Tony, having passed his entrance ex- ams for West Point, was to leave forthe military school. Di- ana was to sail for Europe to spend four years studying in Paris and Vienna. After the four years were gone-well, let the future take care of itself. Di nuer was a cozy informal affair with Tony as the only guest. Much of the talk was of the plans for the coming four years, so full of bright prospects for the young people. Indeed every- thing seemed so perfect that Mrs. Fairis heart misgave her lest some trouble might mar such carefree happiness. Their very gaiety, however, caused her to quickly dismiss such thoughts, and to laugh at her forebodings. 25