Milbridge High School - Light Yearbook (Milbridge, ME)

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30 THE LIGHT Elsie: No, Evelyn you. Evelyn: Oh, you scared cats, if you don't dare to I will. tEvelyn, just as scared as the rest of them, calls with an unsteady voicel: Weh-o a-r-e y-o-n and w-h-a-t d-o y-o-u w-a-n-t? CAt this time four heads popped around the corner. It was our mothers., Mothers: What are you doing? Do you know what time it is? Girls: We are picking up clothes for the Vic- tory Clothing Drive. Mothers: Victory Clothing Drive nothing. You girls are going home. It is one o'clock in the morning and you have to get up in the morning and go to school. Girls: One o'clockl fThey all left and the girls were telling them about t'he news reel they had seen.J Scene IV-After school at the Mitchell house umzain the four girls and their mothers are the characters. jean: We've got someone to help us now. Dellic: I got Mom so excited about it that she forgot she was even cross because we didn't come home right after the show last night. Girls: We all agree that our mothers haven't mentioned again about not coming home. Jean: I went in and paid David for the ice cream last night, so you don't have to worry about that again. Elsie: How do you suppose they found out where we were last night? Dellie's Mother: If you girls don't stop talking and get busy, you will be here until one o'clock this morning. CEverybody forgot about her supper and at 1-ight o'clock they had put the last tag on the last garment and had packed them into the last box. Dellie's father was waiting outside with a truck.l Dellie's Father: Well, it is just about time you were coming out. I have been waiting since seven o'clock. Evelyn: This is the last boxful. CS'he puts the box in the truck.l Together: I am going home and I can sleep tonight knowing that I have done my share to- wards 'helping those children over there. Why don't you give all you can, when you can? THE END -jean Mitchell, '47. THE FIGHT A large, yellow cat of about thirty-five pounds, whose name was Tom, was lounging comfortably in a rocking chair on the Brown's front porch. About three feet away, perched on the railing, was jackson, jack for short, a grey cat. Anyone could see something was troubling him because his face was wrinkled with an angry frown. All of a sudden it happened! jack jumped and landed on top of Tom. They rolled off the chair and down the steps. Tom ran around a corner, but jack was after him and caught him under the kitchen window. They clinched. One hits with a right to the stomach. Both are fighting with strong hind paws. The fur was flying. They break, one had a badly scratched nose, the other's ears were bleeding. They clinched again, growling, spitting, clawing and kicking. Tom was on top, no jack was. Then they back off for another attack. There they went. Wham, splash!! A bucket of ice cold water was thrown over them. The cook had heard all and decided to stop same. jack sneaked around the corner. He had spots of blood where there was no fur and blood was running down his nose. He was ready to fight again but decided against it. Toni we-nt back to his chair to doctor the tender spots. All was forgotten, for the time, anyway. -Donna Burke, '47. THE IOKE IS RETURNED Mr. Teller, the town's richest man, had given a house of eleven rooms to the younger set to start 11 teen club. As yet no one had tried to clean it out and get it ready for the first meeting which was two weeks away, but they had set a date to visit it. One afternoon, seven girls had gathered into linrbii-is Monfs kitchen. Also, Bob and six other boys had gathered in the rumpus room down- stairs. Barbie and the girls were reading their N4-vvs lit-view assignment, so Bob didn't know they wr-rc anywhere around, therefore they talked of tht-ir ghost venture they were planning to stage when llncy visited the house. The boys were going to visit the house half an honr before the girls arrived and dress as ghosts to scare the girls. Unfortunately, the girls heard what they were talking about, so they had an idea of their own.

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THE LIGHT 29 VICTORY CLOTHING DRIVE Scene I-Four girls in a theater talking about a news reel that they were seeing. Dellie: Look at those women and children, no home, no food, no place to go. Elsie: It makes me ashamed to think of all the things I have and not appreciating it a bit. Jean: Look at the money we spend each week on movies, games, dances, candy and ice cream, and still we are always crying around that we haven't been anywhere since last night and we want to go again tonight. Galley SIXTEEN-Milbridge Evelyn: And those children haven't even got a mother and father, let alone a nickel to buy an ice cream. Elsie: Why, those children are so thin and sickly looking. Dellie: Oh, look at all those people dying. Jean: See that woman and her two small chil- dren and all they have is what they have there and that is just the clothing they stand in. fThc girls wipe away heir tears as the reel ends and a funny comedy is shown, but to the girls it isnit very funny., Scene II--At the corner drug store eating a dish of ice cream. The girls are all talking at once about the news reel that they have just seen. Jean: I've got an idea. All: What? -lean: Wlhen we moved a few years ago we left all kinds of winter and summer clothing there in the attic and they have never been given to any- body, and they are not doing us any good. CShe stops a few moments and at this point she has the girls all worked up.J You know we ought to clean that attic out. Evelyn: The drive is over day after tomorrow. So that only gives us two days to do it in. Dellie: And we have to go to school tomorrow. jean: But we can work after school and if We don'l gel them picked up before dinner we can go hack after dinner. Elsie: Letls go down now and sec -how much there is. All: 'I'hat's a good suggestion. C They leave the drug store all excited. They had even forgotten to pay for their ice cream.J Scene III-Going up the walk of the Mitchell house. Elsie: When Mr. Stinchfield was talking about that in school it didn't even sink in. Evelyn: If more people took this to their hearts instead of letting it in one ear and out the other one. Dellie: Yes, the people over there wouldn't have to worry about going cold this winter. fAt this time they had reached the attic. The girls all were exhausted from hurrying so they sat on the top steps to rest a minute.J Evelyn: What are in all those trunks? Elsie: There are two, four, Eve, six, seven. Why, there are ten of theml Dellie: Where are all the clothes? Jean: In those trunks, Girls: What, you have got all those full and have never given them to anybody before? Jean I going over and opening up trunks, one by one, so that the girls could see inf: Well, girls, I had never thought much about it until tonight. I had almost forgotten they were here. Dellie: It will take us a mont'h to get all those picked over. jean: It said in that news reel that we could write our name on a piece of paper and pin it on the garment. Elsie: Why couldn't we get some paper and pencils and write our names on the tags now. Girls: Swell. Jean: Wait a minute and I will go downstairs and get some paper and pencils. lWhen returning, Jean found the girls all ex- c-ited.J Elsie: jean, do you know what we have done? jean: No. Elsie and Evelyn lboth trying to talk at oncejz We dicln't pay David for the ice cream. Jean: Oh! Oh! What are we going to do? Dellie: We will have to go in first thing in the mor-ni-ig on our way to school and pay him. lThc girls get busy writing their names and addresses on the paper. Suddenly they hear a 1-oise. The girls are so frightened they don't know what to do.J Jean Csomeowe coming up attic stairsjz Dellie, ask them what they want and who they are. Dellie: No, you. Iean: No. Dellie: Elsie, you ask them.

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THE LIGHT 31 Thursday three boys and four girls were walk- ing toward the house, and Barbie asked, Bob, where's Jack, Tom, Dan and joe, weren't they comingfy' Oh,', replied Bob, Don and Dick, all in one voice, we sent them to bring refreshments. 'l'hey will be along shortlyf, Yeah,v put in Don, and where is jane, Cindy and Ellaiy' jean, one of the girls, answered: VVe sent them down to the hardware store for brooms, pails and mops. Maybe they will meet up with the boys. Mm, maybe. As the crowd opened the front door of the house, a loud groan greeted them. The girls screamed and grabbed a boy's arm. With the brave protec- tion of Bob, Dow and Dick, they ventured to the kitchcn between screams and heavy footsteps. Bob and Don brought up a suggestion to ex' plore t-he cellar. The girls immediately put a stop to this and suggested the second floor. The boys looked a little worried as this was where their friends were stationed, but they knew the sitnae tion could be handled, so they led the way. The door to one room was opened and from this room a voice that was very weak said: Leave me and my friends alone if you value your livesf, and a ghostlike figure floated by the open door. At this all three girls screamed and started down the stairs and toward the front door. Bob thought they had had enough so he said, Ha, Ha, girls, don't get scared! Come on, boys, take off your sheets and come downf' As the four laughing boys were descending the stairs, pulling off sheets and taking bricks off their shoes, the girls had turned, faces distorted with rage, shaking their fingers, declaring, I suppose yon call this a joke, and you were getting re- freshments for us. Get the brooms and start working. At the end of the calling down, a loud clanging of chains and more shrieks could be heard I'ronr the cellar. That's enough, boysf, said Barbie. Call 'em off. Okay, Tom, you can quit now, the girls know about the trickf, B-b-but. Bob, I'm standing right here beside you, replied Tom in a low voice, and all the boys are here too.', Oh,! Oh! Oh! I-I think this is where we do a disappearing act, said Bob. Come on, we'll find another place for the teen club. Now it was the girls, turn at laughter as they said, Ohl Boys, I thought you were the great, big, brave boys who could protect us. Wife can, but not with real ghosts. i'VVe've a surprise now. Come on, Cindy and the rest of you. They have learned their lesson. Remember, boys, all people are equal, even us girls, who are supposed to be the weaker sex. -Donna Burke, I47. YYIIY TVVO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE Early one forenoon a man with long hair entered a barber shop and had his hair trimmed closely. After the barber had finished trimming the man's hair, he produced from his pocket a small bottle, and held it out to the barber saying, Here is a bottle of hair tonic I invented, put some on my hair and I will come back tonight with long hair againf, The barber replied, Man, are you crazy? Certainly not, replied the man. If this is so, said the barber, I would like to buy your formula. I could give you a fair price For it if it is as good as you sayf' It's a deal. Put some on my hair and I will come back tonight, said the man. In the evening of the same day his twin brother, who had been for many days without a haircut, entered the shop. Of course, the barber didn't know they were twins, and furthermore he didn't know they were playing a trick on him. When the twin entered, the barber stood and stared at him a second or two in amazement. I told you I would be back tonight with long hair, so here I am, said the twin. Y-y-yes. you told me, but I didn't believe you, was the reply. a piece of driftwood. Soon, oh, so very soon, the storm broke with all its fury, very undignified in Well, I am here so please cut my hair again. c'Yes, sir,', answered the barber. I also told you I would sell the formula. Do you still want it? asked the twin. Sure,,' replied the barber. When may I have it? Have you it with you now? No, answered the twin, I never carry it with me. An enemy of mine who is a barber,