Petersham High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Petersham, MA)

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.............- ........- - ..-.... ..,. .- -.... .... .................. ...-- ...........-.- .... ..... ............. ..... .....-.. ........ . .......-. ...-.. ... . ....... . F:-M- ,---an i Wm V, 1 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..,.,,,,, ,..-.--,....,-..,-...-...,-... .--- ...-... I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I UNDER THE WAVES Harriet Johnson, 'AO It was when we lived up in Vermont, in a house which was in a hollow with wountains on all sides, that it rained and rained and rained. In fact it rained so fast and long that the only river running out of the valley, was blocked by refuse brought down by the floods. Therefore the hollow became slowly submerged in water and we, knowing happened at night, were in danger of situation now, we could have escaped we would have missed a very exciting I nothing of it, because it drowning. As I look at the up into the hills,but then and worthwhile adventure. of hed as father called me That morning when I crawled out Iour hired man was ill, so I had to help fatherj it was very dark without the electricity. I scrambled into my clothes and started downstairs, going by leaps and bounds, for it was late. Suddenly I heard a terrific splash and before I knew it, I was under water myself. It was not uncomfortable at all and we felt no impulse to swim or struggle, but father and I walked -along the hall three feet under water as if it were a common affair. he put on our coats and set out for the barn to milV and feed the cows and horses. I will now attempt to describe my feelings at that point. As I said before it seemed very codmon-place except that I felt very light and my feet didn't go where I aimed then very well, for the currents of water were quite strong. I seemed to be breathing water instead of air which was all right under the circumstances. The most annoying thing was that my heir kept floating around in front of my eyes, obscuring my vision. Venturing outside the door, we found it about the same ex- cept that the currents of vater were swifter. We could not see more than about ten feet, being under water, but I should imag- ine the whole house was submerged. Goiny along toward the barn I found it was easier to half swim along with my feet barely touching Tround than really walk. Katching father I saw he had adopted the sane method of traveling. Arriving at the barn we entered and found the cows munch- ing on hay which they found very hard to get because it floated around up by their ears. The cat was sitting by the wall with the water beautifully rippling her fur. Starting to milk thecow father found it impossible because the milk wouldn't go into the pail, but formed a very disagree- able sight like a miniature fog. The cat enjoyed it though, for she get up and swam over, making greet progress waving her tail like o propeller, and drank as much milk as she could. Since there was no use in milking the rest of the cows,xe went to see 7 F F