Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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A DOG'S DIARY January 15 - My master and mistress went to the shore for tea today, and they locked me up in the cellar. So I decided to have a little fun. Master has a tccl box up on a low bench. It is filled to the brim with screw -- drivers, saws, hammers, and other tools. I climbed up on the bench and pushed the kit with my feet. Over it wentn Bang! Crash: Hammers, saws, and everything fell out on my poor head, Then, oh dear: I heard the car coming into the garage. My master let me out of the cellar. I thought he'd find out but he didn't. January 16 - My master found out last night. He was going to put together a bed which Little Mistress had received for Christmas and he found the tools and box lying on the floor. Boy, was I scoldedl Master will never whip me unless he catches me right after I do something wrong. But he certainly can scold a dog by the look in his eyes. January l7 M This morning master got me up early and brought me into the house. As soon as I got into the house I heard a motorcycle going up the street. Master hadn't closed the door all' the way, so I dashed out and raised a rumpus. My mistress called loudly from her window, and I came back with my tail between my legs, to be chained up all morning. Pity a poor dog's life!!! ' Susan Tracy, Grade 7 AFTER THE STORM After the storm had subsided the waves tore at the ragged rocks, which had for so long endured the beating and the pounding of the surf. The breakers were crowned with white caps vmich crusted the shore with foam. Far out at sea one czuld see the faint outline of a ship tossing about in the gusty wind Cne could realize how hopeless the people on that boat felt marooned out in the ocean that night with only the swelling waves tc comfort them. However, now that solemn quiet that takes place after a storm at sea has suddenly descended - the waves begin to cease their dashing and surging, and instead they start to roll stealthily in with just a slight ripple as they reach the shore. The sky is very different also - from a black-clouded sky it changes quite rapidly into calm and serene clouds, which form everchanging shapes. Emerging now and then from the clouds is the moon with its silvery light pouring down upon the rippling waves. Elizabeth Duncan, '43

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FOOTSTEPS IN THE NIGHT My brother and I were staying at a big house in a little village. The rest of the family had moved to a town about fifty miles from there. It was in June, so we were staying to finish school. One hot night it had been very hard for me to go to sleep. Around the middle of the night I was awakened by bright lightning and loud blasts of thunder. The rain was pouring down and beating on the roof. I would be almost asleep when a streak of bright lightning would come along. when the rain began to die down and almost step, I could hear funny sounds. It seemed like the steps of a person. They sounded as if they were coming up the hall toward my room. After a little while I still heard the sounds although they didn't seem to move along the hall anymore. It was very mysterious. Then, all of a sudden, I realized what it was. It was raindrops beating on the roof. ' ' Roberta Jean Sloatman, Grade 7. HERBERT, THE POTATO BUG OF BUGVILLE Herbert was the cutest little potato bug that you could ever imagine. Some of his kinfolk are Henrietta, his sister, his pop, Alexander, his mom, Harriet, his uncle Oscar, his aunt, Matilda, his cousin, Maybelle, and his best friend Oblimifororious, the otter. , In the town of Bugville there lived Herbert. He had the cutest 'ittle bed and the cutest 'ittle quilt on it that his mother had made for him when he was an Wittsy, bittsyn baby so he could keep warm when the fierce cold winds would blow in his little room at night. In his little room his mother had made the little curtains out of some material that had little potato bugs all over it. This made him very happy. One day Herbert got a huge brainstorm and decided that he would go west and start a HDude Ranchn for the potato bugs in Bugville. Before long he ran short of money and had to borrow some. Soon he had enough money to pay back the money that he had borrowed. Now he had an excellent business and he had gotten quite a lotuof money. When one day Henrietta, Alexander, Harriet, Oscar, Matilda, Maybelle, and Oblimiforcrcus got into the car and went out to Herbert's HDude Ranch,h to spend the summer. Strangely enough the very night that his family get there his sister was captured by a band of horse thieves- He Lcrt got on his horse and after a hazardess ride he finally caught up with the horse thieves and got his sister back. when his father made out his will, he left all his money to Herbert because he had rescued his sister, Henrietta. Jan Elizabeth Oakes, Grade 6