John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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longer and suffer longer. He knew that the will to live is not a matter of reason. The man was starying and his arms instinctively reached out to encircle the gulls sleek body It hoyered aboye him so infuriatingly near yet so im possibly distant It came quite close to him and he thought he saw in its eyes a look of desire and fear Then it was gone He watched it circle out to the sea again out of sight of land its beady eyes downturned to the dark stormy water It was gone but he knew it would return It was gone but not forgotten by the man He thought of it as he chew ed with exhausted care on a re duced fraction of sea biscuit which w as his days allottment He made the biscuit last very long and with red dened eyes watched for the gulls return He was certain the gull would re turn for somewhere somewhere on this desolate upcrop surrounded by mountainous seas the gull had nested He was almost certain of that and he determined to make a sayage search of the island It was not difficult One hundred and fifty feet in one direction and about forty Bye in the other During 111 day and all night colossal combers be1t upon the shore oyerwhelming fume 'Ihc island was only rock There yy IS no yegetation no shelter There was barely more than a foothold on this steep up-cropping of wet slippery stone which constituted the land. There was no soil. There was only the nssured rock. The mans eyes blinked and his lips quivered at the growing reilizltion that the island might or might not be on the charts If the island w ere charted ships would ayoid it as a danger to navigation The island was a mere speck in a waste of sea He had no real hope of rescue but the instinct to cling to life was too strong for mere reason to controvert His knees felt oddly exhausted as he climbed about the waye rounded mass which was the island but he resolutely mide the yourney His stalk ing brought no result for he did not see the gull He did not eyen catch 1 glimpse of it By this time he desired it with an emotion far past any yelrning man would ordinarily know The man stumbled back to his use less cache of shattered timbers and weathered cordage He returned to consume his meager allottment of sea biscuit and water He picked up a canyas bag which held the sea biscuits It was nearly empty though his daily rations were smill But is he lifted the bag some thing fell at his feet There was 1 portion of white powder sifted out spreading in the air liye biscuits yy ere missing At his fcet lry 1 sixth h llf chewed irregularly gnawed Thc c rnyas b ig was a good ten feet from where it had been The gull had been trying to fly aw av with it The mans helrt tried to stop Hc regirded the hole and the diminished number of biscuits with 1 stupehed horror Days of Iifc hid bccn stolen from him by thc thicyin skui gull 1114111111111 7 7 V , . , . . , I LY V lv 2 2 . , Y . 7 W 7 . V ' Y ' . , ' , rr . 5 Q T , , Y l ' 7' 7 - ' Y V. - Y .' . I , , . 7 Y 1 a ' . 7 . Y - I 72 . 1 V . . y 1 1 Y V Y' , . 1 ' ' I f ' - ' V K z ' ' ' 1 . 2 ' - 1 ' ' i ' ' Y ' ' . ' ' . two-thirds of its length in Spllffefilig hole in the bottom of it and a tell-tale ' . ' Y - - - ' ' , ' :' , ' ' 1 4 ' - S . 'Q ' Q y - ' i ' . ' ' Ld' 1 2 , , , . 1, , , I , 'eii-i'7:: 'L ' 2 .f1ifjj'-3l' Y ' U . k 4 2 ' . + . V A . A '. U h V 1 Y - P c '

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He made rnartrculate norses of fury' He knew now that the gull would soon prey upon hrm for food as long as he was on the rsland That was the rnstrnct of the gull The conflrct of rnstrncts became more than eycr rnevrtable for the man knew he would try to krll the gull rf he saw rt The man was too weak to thrnk yery clearly but he had found a rock wrth a hollow rn rt He put the bag of brscurts there and lay down Hrs body formed a protectrng lrd over the receptacle of food The gull could not reach the brscurts wrthout at tackrng hrm hrst He sat wrth a splrn tered club rn hrs hand watchrng the unchangrng horrzon wrth a srngle h my groprng thought The skua gull or he must dre The sun sank and 1 multrtude of strrs gazed down upon the man a monstrous aggregatron of star eyes He drd not even glance at the horrzon now He grew raprdly weaker but hrs whole thought was fixed on drs pensrng wrth the company of hrs sole comprnron the skua gull He could guess too well what was rn tre ser gu s mrnd now rnforced wrth food rts rnsrtrrble appe trte would not be satrslied wrth a few dry brscurts He remembered clearly thc berdy eyes wrth therr look of clcsrre ind fear Hc looked rnto the crepe blrck nr rt He w r ser no s r Nothrng but hurtlrng rn rsses of w lter rnd form plungrng upon and oyer the rslrncl T e tentrcles of ferr rn the mars mrncl were closrng now wrthour h rung acturlly surrounded hrm he felt tle strenf th of therr cl rsp It w rs rob rbly the darkness the nrght and the breeze whrch suddenly seemed to chrll rrm 11141111 flu He felt farnt not wrth pam but wrth fear He lay down Suddenly he felt no hunger nor even hrs thrrst He was peculrarly clearheaded and calm Hrs body was weak to be sure but there were no hunger grrprngs rn hrs stomach It seemed strange to be free from that never endrng gnawrng of hunger lrke a hawks talon tearrng at hrs vrtals The man s head was clear now and wrth rts clarrty one factor stood upper most rn hrs mrnd He knew the brrd must be as hungry as he Slowly and delrberately he set out hrs bag of precrous brscurts They would serve as substantral bart for hrs wary opponent He lay on guard besrde rt club rn hand wartrng Before hrs squrntrng eyes the lonely skylrne of fissured rock wayered and pulsed lrke the rrm of the surroundrng restless sea Then he herrd a lrttle sound and rn the moonlrght he saw 1 moy ement was the gull It was strll for fr long trme The mln drd not move The brrd hopped toward hrm then st pp d Presently rts head bent for w ard rs rf rt questroned the man wrth glowrng eyes A qurckenrng emotron surged through the man 1 hrgh rntoxr c rtron stronger than lrfe stronger than death A cool hand seemed to pass oy er hrs brow and cheeks and taperrng hngers seemed to knead the muscles , , v v - ' - , , , W. Y. . . 2 I Y ' w . r r I ' a ' l V- - . I 4 L T' . V ' I ,C . f ' '- V' ' 1- v ' . 4 9 . . . . , Y Y ' C L ' ' , A . , . L z , y I I , ' , . . . . I Y V ' . - r 2 , , U . . . I Y ' l ll' ' ' ' ' . '. Re- . . I . . , , , L 2 K - , Y ' . . . ' r , , ' , v . 4. ' V A I v v' I v ' L . 2 . 2 l , . V I 2 V ' 'L V L l . gl . f sa ro x, ta s. If 'L , V ' t . Y ' Y rf ' , ' K L L K L . L . 2 1 , ' 1 ' k L 1 - o e . ' - h ' 1' 'Q ' rrj U 1-' ' ' f ' -. r - -S' , . .' L V' y ,' Y , ' , ' ' c ' c L R ' .' 4 4' Q ' 1 ' ' 1' K s L ' ' g rr' . 4 p - fr , , -1 v - , ' Y - V Y . l ' 1 ' L p. '1 . JNL,