Holbrook High School - Echo Yearbook (Holbrook, MA)

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THE ECHO 31 Taylor: My feet burn like the dickens. Do you think a mustard bath would help? Martin : Sure ! There’s nothing better than mustard for hot dogs. Mike : Who was that peach that I saw you out with last night? McKay: She wasn’t a peach, she was a grapefruit. Mike: Why a grapefruit? McKay: I squeezed her, and she hit me in the eye. Captain: All hands on deck! The ship is leaking. Voice from fo’c’s’le: Aw put a pan un- der it and go to bed. ♦ Hs J. Sullivan left his umbrella in the stand in a hotel recently with a card bearing the following inscription attached to it: “This umbrella belongs to a man who can deal a blow — 250 pounds weight. I shall be back in 10 minutes. On returning to claim his property he found in its place a card thus inscribed : This card was left by a man who can run 12 miles an hour. I shall not be back. ♦ ♦ Mr. Walsh (In geography class) :“What is Boston noted for.” John Mullin: “Boots and shoes.” Mr. Walsh: “Correct, and Chicago?” Mullin: “Shoots and booze.” ♦ ♦ ♦ The English class had been told to write an essay on Lincoln, and Bernard wrote : “Abraham Lincoln was born on a bright summer day, the 12th day of February, 1809. He was born in a log cabin he had helped his father to build.” ♦ ♦ K « G. Dyer: Who invented work? Fond Mother: You should worry; you’ll never infringe on his patent. ♦ « « K Mr. Walsh: The camel can go eight days without water. Mullin (to seatmate) : So could I if Ma would let me. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Inspector excitedly: The car is running away! Use your brakes. Felix: I can’t — they have failed. Inspector disgustedly: All right then, l)ut at least pick out something cheap to hit. Bob. Martin : Where do insects go in winter? H. Dunford: Search me! B. Martin: Oh, I just wanted to know. Cop: Could you identify your car if you saw it? B. Martin: Yes. It had a dent in the bumper. Hs G. Sears: (On the balcony) Are you comfortable, dear? R. Hutchins: Yes, but why couldn’t you have got seats in the orchestra? ' t ' ¥ George E.: Miss Maguire, is it all right to have Lincoln for a biography? Miss Maguire: Yes, if you can under- stand it, but I thought he was above your understanding. George E.: Why, how tall is he? J. Mack: What shall we do tonight? J. Smith: I’ll spin a coin. If it’s heads, we go to a show; tails, we go to a dance; and if it stands on edge, we study. “This poem is very good,” remarked Miss Megley during an English class. “Is it your own work?” “Yes” replied H. Walsh. “Then I am very happy to meet you, Mr. Shakespeare; I heard you had been dead a long time.” Norman Smith: “Gimme a quarter’s worth of rat poison.” H. Wiggins: “Do you want to take it with you?” Norman Smith: “Naw, I’ll send the rats in after it.” ♦ ♦ J. Sullivan : Last week I bought a har- monica, and now I can play harmony. H. Smith: S’nothing — three years ago I bought a violin and I have always played vilely. ♦ ♦ Mr. Neal: This is the fifth time I have I ' Unished you this week. What have you to say? A. Coe: I am darn glad it’s Friday. )tc )|c )|t 9|C Miss Collins (in shorthand class) : If there is a word you can’t find, write it in English. R. Whitcomb: What is that word?

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32 THE ECHO Freshman: My old man is one of the big directors on Wall Street. Sophomore: Really! Freshman: Yes, he directs traffic at Wall and Massare streets. Miss Murphy was testing the freshman’s voice. “Can you sing?” she queried. “Only two tunes,” came the answer. “Pop Goes the King, and God Save the Weasel”. ♦ Wade Hooker : What do they call little brown horses in Canada? J. Johnston: I don’t know. What? Wade Hooker: Colts. hj It happened one chilly morning in Miss Richardson’s room, when the fair sex were shivering in the cold atmosphere. “Please keep quiet for just one minute til the heat comes on,” requested Miss Richardson. “One minute.” came a shocked exclama- tion. “By that time we’ll be stiff.” ♦ ♦ She (complainingly) : You don’t dress as nicely as you did when you first came to see me. He: Why not? These are the clothes I first came in. Hs Johnny Watkins: I read in the paper yes- terday that a man ate three hard boiled chickens, a peck of potatoes, a half pint of salad, sixteen assorted pies and topped it off with seven quarts of ice cream. Then he up and died. Duck Crane: Well, he had about all there was in life. Melbourne Smith: “Say, Dutch, who’s boss around your house, anyway; you or your mother?” Edith Killen: “Well, Mother assumes com- mand over the dog and the cat and the other important affairs, but I can say pret- ty much what I like to the goldfish.” ♦ Sully: “Hey, Wiggins, to what do you owe your great success in selling tickets to old women?” Wiggins: “To the first five words that I utter when an old lady opens the door. Sully: “And what are they?” Wiggins: “Miss, is your mother in?” Wade Hooker: “Oh, it certainly seems good to be dancing again.” Grace Kelly: “Yes, I suppose there’s nothing like the feeling of a good toe un- der your foot again. An over heard conversation between two juniors. Ransom Whitcomb: “A fortune teller said I should go to prison for stealing money entrusted to me.” Joe Callahan: “Don’t believe it. Who would entrust money to you?” Malcolm Andrew: “Some people think it is against the law to be cheerful.” Albert Smith (Brightly) “Well, we could issue happiness permits.” Chase (A patient) “S’ay, Doc, I asked that nurse to put a hot water bottle at my ieet, and she just turned up her nose and walked away. Doctor: “Well, what did you expect? She’s the head nurse.” Chase: “Good Heavens! do they spe- cialize to that extent? Please get me the foot nurse, then.” 4: Doctor : It’s most essential that you should refrain from doing headwork during the next month. “Oofty” MacPherson: Yes, doctor, but it ' s my living! Doctor: O, are you a scholar? “Oofty: No, I’m a barber. Joe: “I discovered a way to keep a foun- tain pen from leaking.” Bob: “That so? Let me in, please.” Joe: “Forget to put ink in it.” Pedestrian: Hey, why don’t you blow your horn? J. Walsh: Who do you think I am? Little Boy Blue? W. MacPherson: (Shaving a customer) Will you have anything on your face when I finish? Customer : It doesn’t seem likely. As one hen said to the other when Bruce Grindle went by, “There’s the guy I’m lay- ing for.” B. Grindle from High School: Have you an opening for a bright energetic high school boy? Office Manager: Yes, and don’t slam it on your way out. ♦ , J. Feeney: I think I’ll open an office when I graduate. Freshman: I’ll probably turn out to be a janitor, too. ‘ i Rita Hutchins, admiringly: When you got your first job, were you fired with en- thusiasm? Boy-friend: Was I? I never saw a man so glad to get rid of me in my life. Bobby: “Why doesn’t our canary sing any more?” Mother: “Because he’s moulting, dear,” Bobby: “I wish Aunt May would moult.” Miss Collins: I wasn’t going forty miles an hour, nor thirty, nor even twenty. Judge: Steady now, or you’ll be backing into something.