Princeton Day School - Link Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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4, V, Q! ,i ,K My , y, , Y jack Kilgore The jung blakey-bird hopped from book to book. Jung, jung, he said, me blakey bird. He gathered with zest and inference a small wonder from large leaves. And the sky hung down, a pin-striped grey. He looked up at the sky. Bosch, he said, and carefully dragged the leaves, two by two, to a small cove under the Acid Rock. He lived there in fair splendor. Then one fine day he sat on his rock rumi- nating. He saw a worm squirming and wiggling and the worm could move in all directions. O wow, he said, the worm is God. He chewed the worm vehe- mently, he spat it out and got convulsions. Things happened rather fast and he finally flew away, across or through the tiny stripes. Moral: The bird in the sky is worth two on the hook. 18

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The spotted giraffe in the zoo was a collector of items. Because of her long neck she was especially fond of the highest and more obscure leaves on the tree which she swallowed in huge vol- umes. On account of her height the gi- raffe also encountered some of the more shooting breezes in existence but she was equally capable of creating some of her own. The giraffe always meticulously chewed whatever she came in contact with - leaves, volumes or shooting breezes - and digested it in such a manner that it could always be recalled. lt was widely acknowledged in both higher and lower circles that the gi- raffe's neck was well-developed for her age. The giraffe had recognized this herself and - accordingly - had several unusual stunts in her repertory. Une of the more spectacular ones was a head- stand - no small feat for a giraffe un- less, of course, it had a strong neck - which tested leaf strength. Standing on her head and kicking her heels, the gi- raffe would shake off all weakly bound leaves on the tree, which left only the proven ones on the branches to be eaten. Of course, she always lost a few good leaves, especially in the fall, but this was to be philosophically accepted as sad and true, but inevitable. The stunt, by the way, was most offensive to the ground's crew in charge of upkeep of the trees and leaves, but that too was inevitable. Bobby Miller 41

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Cn a high, out-of-the way shelf of a candy shop sat some Very glum gumdrops. Every day they watched the customers lin- gering in front of the gaudy dis - plays of jumbo assortments, pouring over tiny, tempting chocolates, and exclaiming over the precious coconut animals. But no one saw the gumdrops, who were beginning to lose a bit of their sweetness with sit- ting on the shelf for so long. Then one day a new lollipop display was set-up. It was a very nice display, but the cher- ry lollipop would have none of it and escaped on a small balloon of giggles. All the other candies collapsed in ecstasies of laugh- ter at the sightg all but the guin- drops, who only watched glunily from their high shelf. The lolli- pop was not discouraged but floated right in front of them, giggling in their laces. Finally the guindrops looked pleasant, then grinned and at last began to laugh so hard that they fell right off their shelf onto the counter below, where all the children love to see them. Lucy Stover