Harmony High School - The Ferguson Yearbook (Harmony, ME)

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THI' FFRGI SON gaxe h1m a gold xx atch and chaln H xx as xerx much pleased and thanked her xxxth a klss Then 'NI1ss Jox pass ed hlm a small shell box Thls xx as a box xx hlch Jack had glx en her xx hen he xx as a httle box She had been verv pleased xxlth It and had kept lt Noxx she xx as returmng It to hlm He opened lt and lnslde found a check for an amount sufficlent to pax the ex penses of a college course He was nearly oxerccme xxlth 1ox and SUTDFISQ He had expected a present but had not hoped for anx thlng llke that He thanked her several tlmes and then standlng hesltatlngly before her a moment threw hls arms about her and gax e a klss IS the old mald xerx old but she evldentlx llked It tor although she blushed she gave hlm a sxxett smlle Jack xxent to bed happx that nlght thlnklng that thatdav had been xx 1th out doubt the most momentous of hls whole llfe her a regular hug and was qulte a shock for who really was not so D R D 8 FOOL S GOLD In the mountalns of X ermont there xx ere txxo old prospectors huntlng for that brlght shlnlng metal gold Thls dax xxhlle thev xxere xxalklng along telhng of xx hat they xx ould do lf they ever found anx gold Charles Carson saxx somethmg shmmg Look Jack that looks llke gold sald Charles ln an exclted tone Both rushed for the spot as fast as thelr xx earx old legs xx ould carrx them Upon reachxnff the place Jack plcked up a large DILCQ of the Sllllllllg' metal and CXCld1IH9d Its gold and xxe re r1c He grabbed hls partner a round the neck and thex loth sang and dlnced 'lhex xx ent back to toxx n earlx the next mfrmng nd arllxcd there about noon Thex made thelr x ax tt once to In lu Slllltll s e grocer Smvth knexx bx the happx looks ofthe old men th xt SOfl1LtlllIlf., had happened Hxxe xou struck ltI'lCl1 box s he asl cd 'Xlo just xx on a game of cards replied Charles lhcn thex ordered a great deal of flour and DFOXIQIOHQ As quick 'ts the old men had gone the store keeper rushed to ex erx hang out and told that Char les and Jack had found gold Folloxxlng this there xx as a mad rush for the mountalns mt once Xl nen Jack and Charles u llxed thex xx ele surrounded bx toxxns people There s plentx f all Jack snouted is he droxe the posts to mark lns clfum Ex erx one rushed for a clann except one old m rn He sat doxxn on a rctk and begun to laugh Fxerx one turn ed at once and asked xx nat ne xx as laughing, about 'lou xe all '1 bunch of fools sau the old man that '1 composltlon of Mlt 1 or lll other xx ords tools gold Lverx one pomted at Charles and Jack and c rlled them fools but thc store l eeper xx as the rt tl fool J L C Qvrfelufnras 18 , . ,. , ' , ' 6 V V -V V V V V V V . V ,, . If ' l. I . 1 -.., ' ..'- ' ', .2 . l , ' ' V Y .' 7- V 7 .. . jx u , . . . H . f ' ' hl . - ' v. ' V c -V l .l V' ' , - ' f . 3 ' V V .V V ' . c . K ,K V . . . . sv 4 av . 8 . . K. . ' J 1 ' xv K x. - V 1 x V ' v c 7 ,- kc-ll . . ., ' V V V . V l V' ' V 5- ' A 2 K. , ' r ' 1 - . 1 1 . . . v L' r v V 1 e ' ' V 77 ., , L- 1 I x V l . , , fx? . . . HI . V I H A , Q ., , 1 -. 's f f V 'l J ' .. Th '- -. , . rt , V V V 4,-V V V V V , K 1 , . t V , C . - K f 1 C ' xxx r ' . , g , . ., I V . . . C V Q X 2 V V ' V' V V .. L c , . . c ' ' ' . V' .'V V V . - .. V V . V ' 3 , . - 1- y Y , u . . . OI , . . . ,2 .l 2. ' ' S r ' . c . .- V ,- . 1. . . 9 V . J' v ' 'A -V 1 .. 4. T . - v x f U Y 9, , Sv . c , a v V . -4 9 . . . ' ' S1 C . . . ,, H , . .- v - . . . L' ' v r v v f 1 . .1 . ' ' A V Y V . V , Y 1 c ., r . r ' C ,V . V . V V. . 1 ' . I' . 'X 3 ' 'c . Y ' '28 H .' H . . . 1 v v ' A ., ce -'