Lubec High School - Quoddy Light Yearbook (Lubec, ME)

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THE QUODDY LIGHT mg left to give you. You have taken everythmg which we had. Then roared the giant I will take away your daughter your beloved Salver Bell, and he reached out has great hand caught Silver Bell by her two beautlful black brands and dragged her towards hxm All her crxes were ln vam Spanmng her w'ust wlth his hand he marched off with her as a cluld would do with an old rag doll Then Grey Wolf called together his braves and said You know what has hap pened To whoever saves my beloved daughter I w1ll give her hand m marriage Now hasten before the monster dxsappears wxth her In your absence I w1l.l beseech the Great Spmt to destroy our adversary OH they scampered hke the wmd but be fore them was another Black Fox, having seen lus sweetheart s predxmment voluntarily followed behind Friar ludmg in the shadow of the mon sters great legs so that the grant was not conscxous of bemg followed. Soon Frzar neared the top of a great cllff overlooking the water and Black Fox ever hopeful fired an arrow which plerced I'lS arm eausmg hlm to drop the belle of the Pennaquols Whxle turnmg to see who had dared to do thls bold deed Fx-1ar stepped back and felt hunself shppmg He qtuckly turned facing the water and fell below Then the Great Spmt m an swer to Grey Wolf s prayers of angulsh opened up a great pit m the beach beneath and 1nto xt fell the wlcked grant Immedl ately the rocks of the beach closed ln around h1s neck leavmg only h1s monstrous head v1s1ble At thls moment appeared the other mem bers of the tnbe who forgetful of all Jeal ousy gave a great shout on seemg Sxlver Bell safe Of course Black Fox won the Indnan malden as hrs bride and at the death of Grey Wolf he became the chief of the Pennaquols As for Frlar he remamed powerless to 621 J move untnl the crows and seagulls came and plcked out hls eyes Then he gradu ally turned mto stone llke the rocks whlch surrounded him Any time that you go to Campobello or past xt you may see Frlar s Head or Old Fnar standmg bodyless on the beach beneath a hlgh cliff m the very place where he was put by the Great Spmt A W 18 TWO DAYS OF MY SCHOOL LIFE OR THE RESULT OF NEGLECTFULNESS As I walked slowly to school one day a classmate of mme greeted me wlth a pleas ant Good mornmg I replied to her salu tation with a cool Hello and then I wondered why I was so sullen For wxth rn -me I felt more llke dlsregardmg my frxends than respondmg to their greetmgs me despondent for It was a beautxful sprmg mornmg the sun was shlmng 1ts brlghtest the birds were smgmg gaxly and on all sldes Mother Nature was awakmg her chll dren The trees were buddmg out wlth leaves and on the lawns m several small patches the dull brown winter ooat of the grass had changed to a bright green I stlll pondered over the reason why I was m dull splrxts It was not becaux I had not enjoyed myself the n1ght before for had not I been to the movles and had I not seen Mary Prckford and Richard C Trav ers act? Surely nothing could please me more for these two players were my favor :tes At last the answer to my query dawned upon me It was too bad but all too true I had not prepared my lessons for the day' I had gone to the mov1ng plctures instead' After thmkmg of my lessons I began to wonder what I was to do As lt was Thurs- day I had no study periods m school On that day I always took Domestic Science I was certamly m quite a prechcament' ' ' Q! - Q u n ' u - - . ' , - I 2 , l ' . I U ' ' cc ' x . . ' ' 1 1 U 64 ' Y! ' . , 9 I . . . . ' ' 1 I . . . , , . . 7 . . ., . ' u , - , . . . ' ' 'Y cc ' xr ' - n u - . . ' 'C 7, 9 9 y 0 ' . ' l . . . ' . - y , n ' It certainly was not the weather that made . .' v , ' 3 n n u I ' ' 5 . . f r 1 I n J u , 1 n , ' A y 9 o . 1 , ' - . . r 9 Y . . u - . . 1 1 - 3 - . , , . , , 0 u - , . 3 . G ' . . ' , 1. 1 n 7 Y . I' . , . , .

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THE QUODDY LIGHT of Robert E Lee we would try to capture the enemy ourselves and then we would fix up the old wireless and proudly pro cl'nm to the president We have met the enemy and they are ours That 15 just what we would do clalmed one jumpmg up 1n hrs eagemess to be heard We would take one of the hsh mg boats crumse around the xslands come up beslde them and then we would sud denly board the1r vessels fall togged up m pamt and feathersj and let out one wlld warwhoop m concert The Germans thmk tl 'tt all American Indians are savages Of course thelr geography has told them about the trxbe at Pleasant Pomt. They would be so frxghtened that they would flee 1nto the sea leaving thelr state papers their guns and thexr large stores of ammumtron Everybody was so exerted that all sprang to their feet .talkmg U1 such wild confuslon that It frlghtened somethm that had been lymg unnotlced m a lxttle lack heap near them It struggled to 1ts feet and as rt did so someone shouted 'That 15 the black bear which has been seen m Morton s woods The boys had been practlomg for the foot races but the gzrls were not far be hmd when they reached the bottom of the hxll and came out upon the public hxghway B-a a a sald Farmer Brown s black sheep as she watched the would be braves scamper away LMG 20 A 'floral 'jllegznil Long long ago when th1s country was by Indlans there dwelt on the nelghbormg rsland of Campobello a lrttle tr1be of In dlans called the Pennaquols The leader of the tr1be was Chief Grey Wolf who had a beautxful daughter Snlver Bell hrs pride and Joy for whose hand there were many sultors But the proud Grey Wolf would gnve hrs daughter to no common brave Has daughter dnslxked th1s foollsh prxde of her father for she secretly smiled on a promlsmg young brave Black Fox The Indnans dwelt on the zsland IU peace and quiet and m the love of thexr Great Spmt While the braves were hunting and fishmg on the xsland and makmg occasional trrps to the mainland where Lubec and other towns now stand the squaws were domg the heavy work and caring for the papooses But one day things changed for the Pen naquols tribe A canoeful of Indians re turmng from the mamland brought the C201 startlmg news that a strange bemg had monly tall and large one a person whom we would call a glant He had warned the Indxans not to come back but to stay on thelr xsland Terror filled the hearts of the httle tr1be for they reahzed how power less thetr small numbers were against such a foe Two days later the grant whose name was F r1ar stepped across the narrow strap of water to vxsxt the Indrans and to see what they would give hlm 1f he would not Lother them He returned home with many skms blankets and beautiful ponies Day after day for about a week Friar exacted thus trrbute from the Pennaquols until they were beommg very poor mdeed All that they could do was to pray to the Great Spmt to destroy their terrible foe Thus they did continually On the following day Friar came as usual and demanded hrs tribute Alas' sand Grey Wolf we have noth . .. ,, ' 1 , . ' ! Q e 1 c n I ' 1 y I -I . . . an ' ' ,rs ex- . ' , ' . . . . n -' K ' . ' . . n ' lv 5' , . l u . , ' 5 .. 4 y 0 n u Q- in ' ' . if i hm- ,ff ' Y L . . - , , ., , . . ., . , w u . o U N ' . covered wlth thlck forests and inhabited come there. It was a man, but an uncom- n , s c u , n , n - s . . , 1 Q l u - Q n s , u a ' Q n . c . 1 1 ' . 1 I ' 1 .u . u oscl . u . , . v Y Y , . . . . p . I . 5 o ' , 1 0 , 1 . ' I 7 , - . . . , ' . ' ' ll ii ' Cl - ! ' !

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THE QUODDY LIGHT There nas my Geometry and Enghsh rec: ldl1OllS ln the mormng I mlght shp and shde over those but 1n the afternoon were my Latm and French perlods I would probably have to translate advance Latm so I dxd not worry very much about that but Ill Trench everyone had to reclte All day long before each recltatron I hoped beyond hope and even praved that I nnght not be called upon ln the classes Put hopmg and praymg dld l1ttle good llou I ever got through the day nobody lnows not even myself One thlng I do know that when I left school at half past two oclock I had declded to remam at home that evemng to study ln splte of the severe headache I had recelved as the re sults of the trxals of the day The next day dawned The sun was lndden behmd a cloud and I heard a nelgh bormg old tlmer say Waal Ig'l.1CSS1tS gonna ra1n today so I took lt for granted that 1t was As I hurrled to school I hummed the Star Spangled Banner In stead of thmklng of the terrors of the pres ent vsar I thought of the bravery of our Yankee boys and the peace of the mormng I was very happy I dld not mmd the pourmg ram Why was I 1D light splrxts? The previous evenmg I had prepared my studies I was anx1ous for school to begm Would the bell never rlng? At last my recltatlons began How eagerly I awalted each ques tlon I was really dxsappolnted when the teacher dnd not call upon me to recite A1 though rt was stormy outslde yet to me nothmg could be more pleasant than the classroom In Geometry I dld not dread the questions nor shun the prlnclpal s look In fact this day was a strlkmg contrast to the prevlous day At half past two I was very mdustrxous and went to the hbrary to look up refer ences As there was no one else there I was left to my own thoughts Instead of zmmedlately begmmng work I sat down C227 and queer xdeas concernmg a happy school hfe 1n the future rushed through my mmd I recalled how elated I had been m all of my recltatlons that day How different lt had been from the day before' Then I said to myself How much better lt IS to prepare my lessons than to neglect them D P A FRESHMAN S DREAM Pa may I go to school? Thls ques t1on was anxrously asked by a homely pmched face g1rl wnth iiery red halr jerusha Bean was a very ambltlous grrl but her parents were very indifferent When Ma Bean felt as though she could spare her Jerusha had gone to the l1ttle country school eagerly and now her great est deslre was to attend the Hlgh School rn the cxty about erght m1les from her home Jerusha had two overgrown bolsterous brothers Sllas and Pete both of whom were very lazy Thus a great part of the work fell upon Jerusha On thls mght of whlch I speak the weather was bad and lt happened that the whole Bean famlly were at home Sllas and Pete sat wlth thelr chalrs tipped agalnst the wall whlttlmg Ma Bean sat knlttmg beslde the dmlng room s1tt1ng room and parlor table combmed on whlch a small smoky kerosene lamp burned dlmly Pa was seated by the cook stove laborrously trymg to extract hrs huge feet from some red and whlte homespun socks HIS flrst response to th1s question ffor a few mmutes jerushaj was few moments jerusha you dishes and be whlch seemed hke hours to a loud grunt but after a he saxd m a loud tone glt tuh work at them er of some use tuh you re Ma afore you begm that school tomfoolery It was one whole week before Pa gave hrs consent and overcame his prejudxce for city schools He always took as an ex ample two Hawkms gzrls who attended school only for the fun of going and con 1 - ' J 1 1 x ' . - H . . - V - 1 1 4 11 - . . , E. . ., 19. ' r . . , cr 1 n . . . . H ,, . J . , . - , . 1 i , . ' , . 1 1 , . . . . . . . 1 . ' , . , ' 1 ' 1 - ca ' 11 cc ' 1 1 ' 1 . ,, . . . 1 1 1 cc 73 1 1 1 . . , . - y - - 1 - 1 . . , I - y 1 1 1 - 1 - ' ' 1 rc ' 1 - 1 . . . . , , .. ' ' 11 . . 1 . . , . ' 1 1 1 '