George Stevens Academy - Mountain Echo Yearbook (Blue Hill, ME)

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Xlfll XFAIN FLHU THE SKIPPER S LAST TRIP One of the chref rndustrres of Newfound land ls cod flshrng Newfoundlands greatest source of supply of cod rs at the Grand Banks whrch rs of! rts coast Gomg out for months at a time the cod fisher men often brrng back a fortune but som trmes they never return Schooners take the fishermen to the fishing grounds and then smaller boats or dorres are used for stretchrng nets for the catch The following experrence rs recalled by the whales crew It was a blustery sprrng mornrng back rn the 1800's when an old skrpper Pete Jud son was sarlrng wrth hrs crew on hrs last trrp to the Grand Banks After this trrp Pete who was rn hrs seventres was plan rung to retrre to hrs seasrde cottage At first there was a brrsk southwest wrnd behrnd the sarls of the four masted schoon ers If thrs kept up rt would not be long before the Whale would reach rts destrna progress because he Was always anxrous o get home but he drdn t lrke the rdea of not sarlrng anymore on the Whale whrch he had grown to love rn the past years In a few days however the wrnd changed completely to the east A low fog settled on the ocean whrle the barometer dropped sharply There were rndrcatrons of an approachrng storm Pete estrmatefl that the Whale was about half way to the fishrng grounds Hrs worry was that rf they were delayed too long by the unfavor able wrnd the food supply mrght grve out leavrng only flsh whrch mrght b caught to eat The wrnd whrch was garnrng rn for e steadrly drove the salty spray from the leaprng waves onto the deck where the crew was scramblrng about takrng down sarls and fastenrng the dorres securely The rockrng of the shrp made rt necessary to fasten the barrels and cases rn the hold Whrle thrs was berng done a loud squeak mg was heard and then a horde of rats that somehow got aboard were seen leavrng the shrp There rs a superstrtron among sarlors that when rats leave a shrp that they have rnhabrted then some work of fate wrll overtake them The crew drd not lrke this sign but let rt pass As the skrpper called hrs crew together they notrced an anxrous look on hrs face Although he wasnt too sure of rt hrmself he trred to assure them that they would get through all rrght They had confi dence rn hrm because he had brought them through many a storm some of whrch had been worse than thrs one One thrng that worrred Pete was that the srdes of the old shrp mrght not be able to stand the terrr fic lashrngs of the waves The barrels and cases had been tred down so that they couldn t hrt the srdes as the shrp rolled As the storm reached rts full fury there was a loud rumble rn the hold that could be heard above the storm then a crashrng of Wood One of the crew scambled down to rnvestrgate but rushed back up yellrnff hat a stream of water was pourrng rnto the hold through a hole rn the srde of the shrp The ropes holdrng the cases had broken lettrng them bound wrth full force agarnst the srde The damage was beyond reparr and no one could work among boxes that were crashrng about The skrpper ordered the dorres to be low ered for the abandonment of the shrp In the storm rt took sometrme to untre them and the shrp was srnklng fast All the men had left the shrp except hrmself when he suddenly remembered hrs drary was rn hrs cabrn As he went rnto the cabrn the shrp gave a heave and drsap p ared under the water The crews ef forts to recover hrm were rn varn Thus on hrs last trrp Pete went down wrth hrs shrp to rest where many of hrs comrades had perrshed The mournful crew had some good luck because they were soon afterwards prcked up by a Brrtrsh vessel on rts way to Canada Nrrlo Anderson 45 I KILLED HIM T had been five weeks srnce the lrttle boy had been murdered Some hrgh school boys had found hrm lyrng rn the blackberry bushes besrde hrs crutch He was holdrng hrs lrttle trn parl Who had murdered the lrttle boy'1 For . T. - r' If 31 , .A T . . . . - . . ' ' 3 I . . ' 9 . . 9 . . l - . . . 9- 'f ' ' .' Y..I K . - . , . f -- - . Y ' . . . . , D . , . . . . U tion. The skipper was glad of the rapid , ' . , . . . . y f . . . . e' v . , ' - . . . D - . . Q .. . . . A . . . P . .. , . . V - , . Y -

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X JUNIOR SENIOR EXHIBITION I m as nervous as a draftee Or a Red Cross blood donor Id bett r stop shaklng pretty soon Or Im sure to be a goner I ve forgott n my books And my m1nd seems empty All the thmgs Ive learned Have gone and left me What shall I do to rlght my wrong I Just cant shake all nrght For afte1 all the Exh1bxt1ons Not t1ll Wednesday nlght Marjorle Young 44 IIIT S SQUIRM WORM He came and asked me for a dance That handsome guy rn the checkered pants He g1aLbed me up and swung me round I never knew when I h1t the ground He sa d that I was a fancy number But I felt more l1ke a load of lumber Then when he tossed me round a b1t I thought he must be havxng a ht I sald Now look here lug' Is th1s what you call uttlng a lug 'J Cause 1f 1t IS Im 1l11ng It qults I don t want to catch your Jltterbug Flts My feet were up and my head was down But he a d Come on Babe' Lets go to town' He thr w me over hls shoulder and caught me by the nose What went on from there Heaven onlv knows' But now Im a crlpple' So dancers beware Of guys 1n checkered pants And dark wavy han' -S Babson 44 C Butler 45 A PLEA It s nearly sprlng the wlnter s gone And yet we must admlt We ve mu h to do before we leave We all must do our b1t The Jubllee must be Just pel fect The IVIOUIIIIZIII Echo rxght We need a lot more stor1es So wont you try tonight The Glee Club needs more practxce Lets srng w1th all we ve go Lets practlce hard for speakxng And do Just as we re taught We need a strong Amerlca We re dependlng upon you So study hard your Democracy And your other lessons too We re 1n to w1n and WIH we must To keep the thlngs we love Our homes our f3.l'I'11116S and our land All came from God above' And do our b1t today I ets buy more stamps and bonds right now I et s fight the Yankee way MarJor1e Young 44 V A FISHING TRIP One day I went on a flshlng trxp To a llttle stream I knew It was tucked away ln the distant hllls And It was stocked wlth many fish too I came at last to th1s httle pool Where the rlpphng waters stands And I saw a big trout cuttlng wlde On a long wh1te bottom of sand I dropped my hook 1n a qulet place Where the trout stlll played about He struck my hook and b1t down hard And then I yanked h1m out B111 Babson 46 :ill NlHl'. l'AlN l'll'llH U , ' ' u va 7 3 , ' . ' y . 7 1 v 7 9 ' 3 9 , , , I S . . , - 3 . , , . . , tl , ' ' 7 - y l 1 H ' Y TV, 1 as , 1 is ' ' Y ' Y , I . . Y l -- - p - ' v So come on, Stevens, let's pitch in . Y ' I , , V , , ' Q Y , ' '7 T I . ' Y I A ' 'C ' ' 'I ss 11 , . . .Y , C . . . Y , - - ,, . . , . . . V Q i .. , . . . . , , . H , . H Q . . . V U v I ' I 1-4 ' 1 ' i Y '

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X I I LHU Hve weeks the pollce DOIld616d upon the quest1on and searched for cues but all 111 va1n There were no clues The ques t1on could not be answered The l1tt1e boy had 11V6d w1th h1s aged grandfather One of the boy s legs had been paralyzed S11'1CE blrth and he could not 1un and play w1th the other ch1ldren as was h1s greatest deslre The old man had been fa111ng 1n hlS health these past few years H1s e1d was 11ear and he had known It Now when they brought the llttle boy home to h1m for the last t1me h1s gr1ef was unendmg and he took to hlS bed One CVCUIDQ the polxce were summoned to the bBdS1d9 of the dy1ng man As th X entered the 100111 the old man ralsed h1m elf upon h1s elbow and faced them H spoke almost 1l'1 a wh1sper and b could hardly be heard Gentlemen he spoke wlthout faltermff I have a confession to make It was I I k1lled h1m I k1lled my l1ttle boy DIS VOICE rose and he faltered I had to He was lame I was all he had How could l e l1ve w1thout me? How? How', The old man fell back on h1s DIIIOW and losed h1s eyes Th1e m1nutes late1 the If' l1ce left the 1oom as s11ently as they had entered It The case was closed The old man was dead L1ll1an Stover 45 THE SUN Al' D THE MOON Two scenes 111 n1v ch1dhood That I shall not forget Are when the sun lS r1s1ng And when the un doth set When I look over the h1ll tops And scan the b11 ht hor1zon What can be more beaut1fu1 Then a b1g round sun 1lS111g'J When the tw1l1g,ht gathers At the close of every day Another scene that I hold dear Is the moon on Blue H111 bay The moon shnnng on Long Island On a cool and CFISDY nxght Spans the deep blue waters Oh what a gorgeous s1ght' To God we should be thankful For th1ngs of natu1e br1ght O11e IS for the moonbeams The other for sunllght -Josephxne Pettenglll 4 IMPOSSIBILITY I th1nk that I shall never see A woman as qulet as a tree A tree that never IS known to talk Beh1nd people s back an awfut lot Most women talk constantly 'Ihat plants 1ts roots 1nto the ground And stays there the whole year round Barney Plper 44 LAMENT Im Just a bashful freshman I dare not move nor Slgh For fear a sen1o1 ll hear me As he IS passmg by Those soph1st1cated sen1ors Would l1ke to own the school There are a few who th1nk they do But there are except1on.s to the rule Those sophlstlcated sen1ors Show thelr author1ty Wlthout whlch theyd be the same As common as you and me IV Although the S6lllOI'S bawl me out I calmly take It Wlth a Smlle For though Im Just a freshman now Ill be the sen1or after a whlle A Green Freshman IIZI NlHl'. 'AIN +1 ' 1 . . L . Q . D . , . . . . , , 7 . ' 1 . ' - 1 . --v-- , . . . I 9 , ' . . - . Y . . Q U Y - - at Y - E. ' , , . j N 'I' Why can't they all be like a tree? . . H , 9 . , A -1' ' 7 -I ' ' 17 y C . ' . ' e ' I . 7 C. . . A V . . , - 7 Q --V-h ' , it -J H 7 1 h ' , S . III - ' ' ' 1 ,-nk - ' ' s , .