Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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as level matters. It was used for the signing of our Constitu- tion and Declrrntion of Independence. It has been used to begin were 's wfll as end then, to make trade treaties and to hieax then, and to convict es well as to nardon the hreikcrs of the laws. Tn: pen has been mdn's Chest friendn as well as his most nhittar rival.u H05 I FEEL WHEW I AV TRYING TO WRITE A CCNTOSITION AND CAN THINK CF NOTHING TC SAT Richard Moriarty, 'il I Well, this is certainly an easy suhject tc write shout, for ull I need to do is describe mv feelings at the present moment--ar perhaps that isn't logic, since if this is an easy subject, I should be able to think of something to sa'. iowever let's not worry our heads about the above circumlocution, but get on to the real story. When I am trying--oh you know how it goes--I do many strange and wonderful thines. First I dip my pen. Then I start to think of something to write. By the time I think of a few words, mv pen is dry and I redip it. At this romwnt I hear a few tords said on the radio, and my mind is taken away from my work. When I finally awaken to the fact that there is a blank sheet of paper before me, I have forgotten what I intended to write. At last I think of something, dip my pon, and--oh, what was the score of the last basketball game? 'Round and 'round it goes and then f.' I'll write mv comfodition, nohody knows. However, despite all these interruptions, in a v-ry dazed condition, I come to the end of an equally dazed composition, and pass it in the newt day to mv Enqlish teacher, who, when she trite to read my writinp, will alsu be dazed. S l'f.I.1kli INC I Claire Coolidge, '42 One dev I clinhei upon a chair, To reach the cookie jar, The chiir slipped out from under me, And 'roused my slecpinq ma. She heerd thc crash and came to see Whatever was the matter. She saw the cookie jar and me And you should have heard her chatter. But chattering wasn't all she did, She laid me on her lap, She spanked me till I was Ulack and blue and toy, I felt each sled!