North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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Sixth Grade FRONT ROW: Anne Leimert, John Ayer, Genevieve Cremin, Marianne Ware, Nancy Green, David Bergman, David Dobkin, William Stern, Katheryn Dole, Eliza Millard. SECOND ROW: James Restin, Rocky Wirtz, Thomas Boal, Ellen Benson, Catherine Welch, Mark Milliken, Ann Howard, Peter Jefferson, Alison Hurd, James Flynn. THIRD ROW: Crispin Colvin, Susan Severson, Mark Preece, Gideon Searle, David Severson, Charles Lyon, William Wilson, Sharon Siskin, Spencer Pun- nett, Barrett Hills, Eunice Jackson. [ 28 ]

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A DEEP HOLE Johnny Jet Club was a gangster club. It was Hal- loween night. They were planning to throw cherry bombs at cars and to smash pumpkins. They surround- ed someone ' s house. One of them was drunk and shot a little girl in the leg with his pistol. The people in the house called the cops. The boys ran. They threw a cherry bomb into a window at a Halloween party and ran. Then they threw a cherry bomb into a drugstore and ran. You can imagine how many cops were after them! The police dogs were out after them. They hid in a grave- yard. The dogs tracked them down. The gang wondered where Johnny was. Back in the graveyard Johnny had fallen into a hole. He fell deeper and deeper. It felt like a dream. Then he hit the bottom. It didn ' t hurt. There was a small room at the bottom. He didn ' t get tired or hungry. He just sat there and thought how bad he was. He sat there forever and thought, and he never got old. Nick Johnson BoMMie Itf z-

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THE HINGE OF FATE The door of fate is heavy As it swings hard and fast. The noise it makes cannot compare To what happens if you dare To venture long in earth ' s own tomb . The door of fate so heavy. The hinges rust Such noise does make, When some small hand Makes the mistake .... A scream, a yell, The fingers grab But it ' s not there The handle slips, Then silence reigns. The doors have won, Freedom lost. They ' ve been conquered, No more glee, They ' ve been conquered For eternity. Susan Severson In the year 1999 there was a man named Orville Finn. Orville had extremely big ears. Orville ' s mother was embarassed to take him out without his bonnet. When Orville got older and went to school, all the children would laugh at him be- cause his ears were so big. When Orville grew up he was embarassed to go to work. Orville went to an ear doctor to see if he could make his ears smaller. But the doctor made his ears twice as large. Orville felt very discouraged and unhappy. One morning, Orville woke up and heard strange sounds. Everyone thought that Orville was just hearing things. He finally invited a scientist over to see if the sounds meant any- thing. The scientist said that it was Martian language and that Orville could hear millions of miles away. The scientist translated the Mar- tian language and said that the Martians wanted to attack us. When the Martians did try to attack us, we drove them off. Orville became famous and everyone wanted to have big ears like Orville. Rocky Wirtz