Norway High School - Caduceus Yearbook (Norway, ME)

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26 THE CADUCEUS QAD, Lorraine Shelley CRaineD, Janet Chilton CJanj, and Barbara Benton QBarbsj. 4'Girls, just think of it! A real human young man at Cherry Lane ! The only man we ever see are the 'profs' X uYes, and isnlt he handsome! Just look at this picture! Cnewspaper clip- Pineb. 'tBut do you think he will skate all the time'Zl' HSay, did you ever try to skate in your sleep TV, 'KCf course not, silly, but do you think he will go to our 'prom' banquet and con- certs? 'tYes, he will. He'll have to. We ,ll make him. 'tWhen will he arrive?l' HToday on the 3:45 train. Say, girls, it is two now. 'We'll have to hurry to get everything straightened around before we go to the train. HO. K. Let's get busyf' Now let us see the station of Cherry Lane at 3 143, that same day. The girls are eager- ly watching for the train. It appears around a bend in the distance. Oh, I'm so excited I could flyf' ttWliy don 't you? Oh, her wings aren't sprouted yet. t'Blah. LL CL We'll have to be very nice to him at first. Don it grab him, but act as though he were a professor. But I thought you said to give him a nice, warm reception. Well, do what you think will make him stay longest. Let's see if we can see him. Wliy, here he comes! t'How do you do, Mr. O'Day'V' 'tYes, we're on the reception committee of Cherry Lane College. 'tWelcome to our college. HWe hope you'll have a good time. Weill try to give you one. 'But I-I-eh- HDon't bother to say anything. UMay we call you 'Tommy'? HYes, do let us. Mr. O'Day is too long. ttYes, everybody calls me Tommy. The girls made very rapid progress wget- ting acquainted . In no time at all Tom- my was an old friend. The days that followed were very happy ones for the girls. They seemed to please Tommy, too. He attended their dances, concerts and other social affair. After Tommy had been there a week the girls held a private meeting. MWell, girls, what do you think of Tom- my? HHe's just grand V' 'tBut he isnlt as good a skater as I thought he'd be. No, he isn't. 'tHels not doing the best he can. He suits me as he is. HHe's Wonderful! 'tHe doesn't look much like his picture but then, news pictures aren't very clear. That,s right. Let's go find Tommy now. He's out practicing skating. The next week passed by quickly. It was the day for Tommy's departure. Cf course the girls did not want him to go. He had been a very good sport and friend. Tommy was to leave at four that afternoon. It was shortly after lunch when Tommy called the girls together to Usay something importantf' The time was set for two o'clock in the main hall. The girls ap- peared on time. Tommy took his stand on the platform. 'tGirls, he said, I have had a very good time here for the past two weeks, and certainly appreciate having been asked. Now I have a confession to make. On the train on which I came was another young man. He is known to you as your errand boy and all-around man. He is about my age. We look somewhat alike. He can skate, too. Maybe you've seen him. He

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THE CADUCEUS' 25 Meanwhile, Caleb was quickly barri- cading the little cabin, while his wife loaded the two muskets which he had, besides his rifle. The Indians rushed toward the cab- in, but quickly vanished, as Caleb's rifle spoke, causing one of their number to fall, fatally wounded. 4LWished I'd waited till they got near- er,H growled Caleb. HThey'll be more crafty now, and plan up some deviltry that'll git us. Even as he spoke, three of the Indians suddenly rushed to one side, at an angle too acute for him to shoot at them. His wife quickly crossed to the side where the Indians had just gone, and kept watch. Caleb gave a groan, and cried to his wife, See, what did I tell you, they 're advanc- ing on us behind that mass of bushes. They know that they can get us before I have a chance to shoot more 7n two of 'em. Those from the side will sneak along up to the cabin and pot both of us from the opening there. ' His wife quickly grasped the situation, and quietly said, HNOW Caleb, I'm not so sure of that. She was preparing to say more, but just then, a terrific war-whoop pierced the air, and her husband muttered, 4'Here they come. Wliile Caleb shot at the onrushing In- dians, Martha seized a long pole, and pushed it through the peephole over the door. The peephole was just opposite to the big hornet's nest which hung from the eaves of the cabin, and of which Martha had complained yesterday. Giving the pole a deft push, she hit the nest squarely in the middle, just as the foremost Indians had reached the door. Instantly, horrible yells arose from the outside. Her husband saw what she had done and praised her, saying: '4Good work, Martha, I guess we'd better be going. Holding Martha by one hand and his rifie with the other, he cautiously sought the door. The minute they reached it, they ran for their lives, expecting any minute to hear a bullet whiz by their ears, but, by now, the Indians were too much oc- cupied to pay any attention to their intend- ed victims. Indeed, both Martha and Ca- leb had several very sore spots, where their lifesavers had stung them. Hastening towards the settlement, the Lanes looked back, and saw that their cabin was burning 5 but they felt safe, as the settlement was right nearby. They could even hear the shouting of some of the set- tlers, who, having been warned by the ar- rival of the dog, were coming to their res- cue. Turning away, Caleb remarked to Mar- tha, We7ll build there again next spring, but we must be sure and have a hornet's nest over the door, with hornets just like those and us, old settlers. -F. Pendexter, '33. i..0 THE ADVENTURES OF TOMMY It is midwinter at Cherry Lane College. All activities are flourishing. Cherry Lane is a well known women's college situated in a small New England town. There is a great excitement at Cherry Lane. Thomas O'Day, the famous skating champion, is to come to the college! A man in the midst of so many girls! For two whole weeks! This is an extraordinary event. QMen are allowed at the college. only for a very short time.J This famous man Chandsome, tooj is to come to Cherry Lane to teach the girls how to skate. Of course, the girls know how to skate Csomej, but they voted to be taught more about this art, and who would be bet- ter to teach them than Thomas O'Day. Let us listen to a scene in Barbara Benton's room. Several girls are seated around the room. They are Alicia Grey l

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THE CADUCEUS 27 doesn't like social affairs. He has never been a right-hand man before. Perhaps you wonder why I am telling so much about him. You see, I am he, and he is I. In other words, he is Thomas O'Day, the skat- er. I am Thomas, but I am Thomas Sheri- dan. I should have been your chore boy, and he should have been your instructor. At the station, when you received me so heartily and called me Thomas O'Day, I knew you were very much mistaken. I tried to get a word in edgeways, but I could not. I couldn't see why you would receive a chore boy so grandly, but decid- ed it was because men are lacking around this place. I let you call me Tommy be- cause that is my name. When I arrived at the college and was taking a look around the place I met a young man, who was running wildly to- wards me. He immediately told me he was Thomas O'Day, and that he wanted to swap places with me. He saw the wild meeting at the station and decided he wished he were somewhere else. He had come here to get a rest, but he thought, for a while, that he would have to seek it in some other place. He knew the girls were mistaken about names, so he decided to let me be Thomas O'Day. You see, I like so- cial affairs, but do not know much about skating. Well, anyway, we got along O. K. Girls, do you hate me for being an im- personator 'Z ' ' Of course not, but where is the real Thomas O'Day? We must explain to him. We wouldn't have had this happen to him for anything. He left on the 11 o'clock train. He left this note for you. - What does it say? Cherry Lane College girls: I have ap- preciated tl1e rest very much. The work wasn't at all hard. Aren't there any more old fashioned girls in the world, or are they all modern? Don 't blame Tommy for this, but treat him nicely in the future. Thomas 0'Day. Isn't he hateful? I'm glad we didn't know him very well. But he's supposed to be a marvelous skater. 4 ' Skating isn 't everything. ' ' '4Our Tommy can skate well enough for us. But how did the picture in the paper happen to look like you? There was a mistake in the placing of our pictures in the paper. My picture was to have been in the paper next day. The mistake was explained in the next edition. Well, girls, we 've gained a good friend and sport, and listened to an exciting story all through the mistake of a newspaper. Let's go to the 'dorm' now and get ready for our bridge party. Of course you'll come, Tommy. You have a standing invi- tation to all of our affairs. So long, Tom- my, see you later. -Maxine Richardson, '33, LHQHH THE HUNTING TRIP Pa and I were picking apples. It was a ivery cold day. The strong, raw wind blew from the Southeast, feeling very much like rain. Pa suddenly spoke up from the oth- er side of the tree, and said, J ack what do you say? Let 's go bobcat hunting tomor- row, if we can finish picking these apples today. Tomorrow came with a little rain, enough to dampen the leaves and grass, making it easy to move about the woods without be- ing heard. We packed our knapsack with food enough to last a couple of meals, plen- ty of ammunition, and a couple of thirty- thirty rifles and started on our way. Down through the pasture we went, eag- er and really thrilled to have the day off, as it was seldom we had the chance to go,