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

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FOUL PLAY It never occurred the confusion our to understand our incident happened to me to be concerned about foreign friends have trying English language...until an the other day. nMizza BetN,Joe, the vegetable man, exclaimed, HCanna you tella me something? How can a foul be a punch below the belt, an outside ball, and a chicken?d I waited patiently for Joe to explain his sudden curiosity. dYou see, Mizze Bet, the ot2nr dey I tooka my little boy to sec c baseball game. Thr batter swunga da bat, and hitta da ball. The umpire called, HFoul!H.' So I ask the man next ta me, dwhatsa the mat?N He say that it's an outside ball.J That didn't seem strange to me. Joe went on. dLast week I go to da boxing match. Sure enough, da referee yells HFoul!H Could dat be an outside ball, I says to myself. The man nexa to me tells me it's da below-the-belt punch.H I could hardly refrain from laughing out loud in Joe's bewildered face. He continued, nNow the other night I went to a friend an Americana. He tells me dinner. Imagine eating an the belt punch! But whats Dis is too mucha for Joe.d we're having outside ball Q he calls it of mine, fowl for or a below- but chicken Joe immediately went into a spasm of unintelligible Italian and American cursing. This time laughter was uncontrollable. When I could speak, I said, dWhy, Joe, what foul lanfurreid Joe threw up his hands in despair, muttered some- thing about Americana, and disappeared - more con- fused thnn ever! Betty Christensen - '45

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spoons y One night I was playing hide-and-go-seek. I saw a ghost. The ghost was eoming from under the bed. The ghost fell down and the sheet fell off and it was my sister. Lee Herrington Grade III NIGHTMARES My brother told me never to look at the moon when I was going to bed. I did,one night. Later, when I was sleeping, I get up and went out of my door. I walked down to the stairway and tumbled down. I woke up seared out of my wits. My father and mother heard the noise end came running down the stairs. Billy Bomster Grade III AN AIRPLANE The airplane up in the sky Didn't make L noise beeeuse it was so high, But it would go roaring ebout,, When it was on e lower route. It dips and loops all round about, While children watch and dence and shout: The pilot set behind the shield, And landed the plone upon the field. Dennis Blakeslee Grade III Tommy Spot I once hed a little dog, His name was Tommy Spotg I gave him e bath one dey, And he yel1ed,WBow3 Wow! It's hotln I Andy Kopkind Grade II