Gardiner Area High School - Quill Yearbook (Gardiner, ME)

 - Class of 1939

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I4 THE Quitt driving. All the other drivers just stayed still until we passed. It seems my new owner has a ticklish left ear. Friday, April 7: The family is just wild over me. I chased their big black cat and he 'scratched me something wicked. Re- solved: In the future never to chase Tooky, fthe thing's namej again. I ate a shoe last night. It belonged 'to the man who bought me. I-Ie paid fifty cents for seven gallons of gas and me. It seems that I had worn out my welcome. Saturday, April 8. Last night I slept with the baby. Never again, never, never again will I do that. Sheyelled in my ear all night and when I tried to comfort her the ungratef ful little thing up and whanged me over the head with a bottle. I'll get it back on her one of these days. Sunday, April 9: Had a real good time today. I got even with that baby. The fam- ily was all dressed up going visiting and I jumped on baby and landed her in the juiciest mud puddle in the yard. Then I go-t in the car and shook a few fleas on the boy, Spike He hit me with a newspaper this morning. Monday, April IO: Today I'm at peace with the world. Spring fever has got me. The lady called Ma is lying at the top of the davenport and the cat's at the foot and I'm on the side. Oh-hum! Will you excuse me while Buzz z z z. -Betty Chase, '40 MONEYA TO SPEND OR NOT TO SPEND One should be thankful that a wide expanse of ocean separates our country from others, in more than one wayg for instance, the monetary system. On several occasions and in various man- ners, I have come into possession of Cana- dian money, but I generally regarded it with little suspicion. I was not aware that it is more or less considered as black sheep. A Usually, I'd try to drop it down on some merchant's counter, surrounded by some change, and assume what I hoped was an air of innocence. just as I was about to breathe a sigh of relief at having successfully palmed away the Canadian money, the merchant would pause, regard his payment critically, and then turning to me with a de- cided frown of annoyance would say, I don't take Canadian money. I would blush, and hurriedly take the dis- pleasing money from his hand and replace it with good old United States, currency. For a long time a Canadian nickel amd two Canadian pennies have cluttered up my finances, because I'm always having to figure around them. Thus, if I had thirty cents, counting thefCanadian money, I did not have thirty cents in figuring how I was going to make both ends meet. - I answered a letter to a friend, and at the same time thought I had discovered- a way to get rid of this bothersome money, and yet not feel as if I had committed some terrific social error. . Waiting my turn at the stamp window pa- tiently with the Canadian nickel resting in my impatient lingers, I decided to play safe, and so fished around for another nickel. Taking the woman's privilege of making people wait, I inquired of the post office clerk, Don,t we have some sort of trade agreement with Canada? The clerk paused, and thought seriously for several seconds, then said, Why, yes, I guess we do. 1 My spirits quickened. Ah! I breathed. Then I can give you a Canadian nickel?

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THE QU ILL 13 Where now is that rugged independence which once animated the hearts of our fore- fathers? Where now the glorious Spirit of Seventy-Six? Fellow citizens, can you be deaf to the pleading cries of liberty? Can you allow freedom to be banished by the merciless ticking of the clock? Not I! By the Fates, never! I feel the noble blood of my ancestors in my veins. I will submit no longer to the Tyranny of Time. I can stand no more. Fellow sufferers, unite! Com- rades, arise! Down with Time! -David N ivison, '40 MY FIRST OFFENCE Did you ever get a ticket? Possibly you have had so many that the experience has palled on you or you have become callous, but I have just received my first, and the mental anguish is still fresh enough to frighten me. Returning from the show, I found a red fof all colorsll ticket on the handle of the door. I have heard of such things, but horrors - this couldn't happen to me! I gulped down my heart, quickly tore the ticket off and thrust it into my pocket before anyone should see it. After I had recovered from the shock, I nervously asked my companion, why? Getting no comfort I hastily got away from there and went home, where I felt se- curity was. I took the ticket from my pocket and looked at it - Violation of the Parking Law. Illegal Parking. Recipient report at once to the Police Station in person. Visions of court, fines, and thick steel bars came crowding into my mind. Oh, I know it wouldn't mean all that, but one does think! I rushed to the phone to get my Dad but no luck. Was I in a mess! Well, no help for it. I braced myself and trotted down to the Police Station ffrom now on I'm walkingll and waited for the Minion of the Law, but none appeared. My courage grew stronger and when it grew strong enough I went out and hunted up the afore- said M. of L., showed him my ticket and ex- plained to him. Bless him! He said of course I was parked wrong, told me not to do it again, and tore my ticket up. -Lois Farrell, '40 l HIGH SPOTS FROM HAPPY I THE I-IOUND'S DIARY . Monday, April 3: Life is grand at the filling station. It's a dog's life. Cars to chase, nice bunch of boys to bark at, and a nice river to swim in. Today I'm in the wrong. I chewed up a tire and ate a pan of grease. I don't see why they should feel so bad, it's I who have the stomach ache. The tire tasted rather nice fit should. Sim said it was the most expensive one in the store.j - Tuesday, April 4: I-Iad a lot of fun today. I grabbed that hose thing. It squirted all over Ted. I-Ie looked so funny until he re- membered to stop turning the crank. Then I put for the Kennebec just as fast as I could with Ted at my heels and the motorist at Ted's. Wednesday, April 5: A man came in to- day. I lifted my left ear, grinned and winked. I-Ie's sold on me already. I'm getting sick of the filling station. It's just the same old cars, boys, and fleas. The boys say they are going to stop the filling station and start a flea circus with me as the home of the trained flea. Thursday, April 6: I'm sold to the man I winked at yesterday. I-le took me home in the car. I kept lapping his ear while he was



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