Milbridge High School - Light Yearbook (Milbridge, ME)

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32 TI-IE tried to get it once by attempting to kill me, but tonight at twelve be at the crossroads by Grand Rock, and I will tell you the formula, and bring the money with you. Then the amazed barber said, Let me use your picture to advertise my hair tonic. We'll see about that later on, was the answer. That night at twelve, the barber came to the crossroads. He stopped and waited. In a few minutes the Hrst man came from the shadows. The man said, I will have to blindfold you for a minute, are you willing? Yes, was the answer from the barber, and here is your money. Thank you. While he was blindfolded the twin came from the shadows and stood beside his brother. The barber was then instructed to remove his blindfold and turn, facing them. He did so. For a second he stood and stared. The brothers heard a scared voice ask, Are you freaks, or am I intoxicated? and he started running back to town. Thanks for the money, yelled the brothers to him. Well, said one brother to the other, this proves our two heads are better than one. -Donna Burke, '47. A HORRIBLE TALE My mother was living in that town when it all happened, said Mrs. 'Cunningham very ex- citedly. Mrs. Cunningham was a little woman, fair, good looking, but with a hard, set mouth. On that quiet aftemoon Mrs. Cunningham was having tea with Mrs. Jenkins, who was a little, fair woman, with blue eyes and an impertinent nose. Mrs. Cunningham was telling Mrs. jenkins of a very strange incident that had occurred in her home town, which was in Findellen, Maine, when she was a little girl. She began her story by telling Mrs. jenkins about two little sisters who lived in Findellen. They both were very lovable children. Alice was very thin and had straight brown hair while Ann was a chubby little girl with long golden curls. LIGHT Everywhere one sister went the other one would go also. They were very devoted to each other. One day a tragedy happened in their family which changed their happy days to unhappy ones. Their mother and father were killed in an auto- mobile accident. On the day the accident hap- pened, Ann, who was eighteen and the older of the two, promised her sister, Alice, that she would never leave her and that she would never marry. For two years the two devoted sisters led a contented life. During Ann's twentieth year she fell in love with a young lawyer. She married him and moved to another state. Alas! She had broken her promise. During the next ten years nobody ever saw Alice outside her own yard. She never spoke to anyone. She had white hair now and was thinner than ever. During the fourth year Alice's sister, Ann, came back to Findellen with her child for a vacation. Her husband had died. One day Ann thought she would take jim, her child, and go to visit her sister and try to make Alice forgive her. As Ann and jimmy went up the old wooden walk of the house they noticed that the front door was opened. Ann knocked and when nobody answered she stepped inside the house. She met her sister face to face and Alice said, Nobody is allowed in this house. You broke your promise. Suddenly Ann felt something hit her head and everything went black. When she came to she found that her hands and feet were bound by coarse pieces of rope. Ann was dumbfounded. Her sister, Alice, was stand- ing ovcr her. Alice was muttering, You broke your promise four years ago, so I arn going to make sure you won't escape from me this time. The story is told that Alice went mad because of her sister breaking the promise and that she killed Ann's little boy Hrst, then Ann and finally herself, for the police, two or three days later, found all three of the bodies in one of the bed- rooms in the old house. At the end of that horrible tale, the aftemoon tea party was broken up after having thoroughly enjoyed another one of Mrs. Cunningham's inter- esting legends. -Joyce Fickett, '47.

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