Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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Harriet and Mildred are two of our nine, And, as girls go, they're mighty fine. They giggle and laugh and try to act dumb, But we're lucky they're not as bad as some. Buell and Welch both play their fiddles, And think that girls are just like riddles, For when on their fiddles they play UThe Bee,N The girls all head toward the open sea. There's Bryant whose camera is always near To snap a picture of any dear, Or catch a teacher with a push of the thumb To see and remember when future days come. TO SEE THE GREAT WHITE FATHER Richard Moriarty, '41 Before a conical tent of hides on an Indian reservation, Idaho, stood two men looking toward the South. They were both tall and lean,but one wore a many-colored blanket and the other a wrinkled gray suit. A close view would have revealed that they were both Indians. The gray-suited one spoke, NWhy do you wish to see me, fathern? nLook, my son. To the South. The white men are coming. They are taking up lands in our reservation. In the night they steal our cattle. When we tell them to give them back, they laugh. The men at the agency, they laugh, too.W Wwhat must I do, fathern? NYou must go to the Great White Father, in the East, and tell him to make his people go back to their land to the South? WI shall go, as you say, father.u The young man turned without further ado, mounted a little black pony, and disappeared in the gathering darkness. Now this was no ordinary Indian, for in his coat pocket was his most prized possession,a bar examination and a congratulatory letter from the president of the New York Bar Association. So he had, of course, a good knowledge of what to do on this trip, and of the difficulties ahead. About two weaks later the same lean man walked upthe steps of a large gnvcrnment office building in Washington. Passersby remarked at his dark complection and at the ease with which he took three stops in each stride. He passed through the tile- floored hall and stopped before a large suite of offices marked HHouse Committee on Indian Affairs.n A particular door marked