Quincy High School - Goldenrod Yearbook (Quincy, MA)

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THE GOLDEN-KOD. ly proud of its record during the past sea- son. For the first time in many years, the school stands not only free from debt, but with a balance in the treasury. It has indeed been a year of progress and of athletic success. CLIPPINGS. Carl A. Lewis. It was said to be a Maine man who told an agent for a cyclopedia that he didn’t want one, because he hadn’t time to learn to ride one and he didn’t wish to risk his neck trying it, anyhow. v The Cabbage and the Beet had had a race and the Cabbage had won. “It couldn’t be otherwise,” sighed the Beet. “ The Cabbage was made to come out a head, and I to be Beet.” “ Bobby. “ I don’t see why they talk about the ‘forty thieves,’ in Arabian Nights.” Mamma. “ Why not, dear? ” Bobby. “ ’Cos they acted like sixty.” Jack. “Papa, isn’t it always best to have one head to everything ? ” Papa. “ Yes, my boy.” Jack. “Then why do you say two heads are better than one ? ” Teacher. “Jonathan, you may spell yacht.” Jonathan. Y —a—h—t.” Teacher.—“ Isn’t there a ‘ c,’ in it? ” Jonathan. “Depends on the weather, ma’am.” « Sunday School Teacher. “ Can any little boy tell me who attained the great- est age in the world ?” Bobby. “Santa Claus.” “Say, mamma,” said little Tommie, looking up from his tin soldiers, “ do angels put their heads under their wings like turkeys when they go.to sleep?” “ Hullo, Fatty,” said the Copy-book to the Dictionary. “ Hullo, Thinny,” retorted the Diction- ary. “ You’re a wordy person, Fatty,” said the Copy-book. “ You’re an empty thing, Thinny,” said the dictionary. “ Bound to have the last word, eh, Fatty ! ” sneered the Copy-book. “ Need it in my business, Thinny,” said the Dictionary, and the Umbrella in the library corner laughed so hard that he bent one of his ribs. Irish “bulls,” or witty sayings always make interesting reading. It was Pat who observed, after watching two men shoot at an eagle and kill it, that they might have saved the powder and shot, since the fall alone would have killed it. It was Pat’s reply to a man who boasted that he had the smallest horse in the country, “ By me faith, I have wan as little as two of it.”

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