Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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THE PIONEER PAGE FIFTEEN began to realize that small as I was compared to man built things, I was less than an atom to nature. I got a different feeling, though, I felt it was good to be even an atom and be able to see this world. Lately I’ve begun to wonder whether we, little we, make any difference in the world? When I boil down my thoughts on this it brings me to the idea : I am here, so I must be here for something. That is the prime motive to start religion, the desire to find what we are here for. I think, and history bears proof, that all we are here for is to make the world better in some way. Ghungis Khan and Alexander the Great are on a par as conquerors. We do not hear much of Ghungis Khan but we shall always hear of Alex¬ ander. Why? Because the former did nothing to help the world, but the latter did. Small as we are comparatively, we shall not have lived in vain if we do something to help the universe. T. F. ’30. WHY KEEP A CAT? No. 1929 (Johnson) Saturday, November 12, 1712. Cave felem domesticum cum unglibus acribus (Beware of the cat with sharp claws). One of the Magi. If thou shouldst ask me why one shouldst keep a cat, I might answer thee thus: A cat is not of much use, methinks, but they surely can drink milk. Me¬ thinks most cats need a cow of their own. The cat that I owneth is about six years old. He hath been with us since a kit. I boughteth him from a boy, who used to sit beside me in the elementary school, for a little more than a shilling (25c). Although now’ me wondereth where he excelleth the cat that thou canst buy for nothing. He neither drinketh w r ater, nor eateth vegetables. He wilst eat meat and fish, but he oft turneth up his nose at such favorite morsels. He loveth sour milk and prefereth it oft to sweet. He loveth to rub one’s legs, when he hath just cometh in out of the rain. If one doth not giveth him attention w’hen ' he wdsheth it, he wfilst biteth one’s leg to attract attention. He is very slow, for it taketh him a full three minutes to go through a doorw r ay when one holdeth the door for him. He also loveth to sit in one’s lap when one carveth the chicken, although he is seldom successful in doing this. I meaneth not to say that all cats are like this. Cats usually like to catch mice, this one doth not. Cats are useful in one respect at least, they killeth the mice which are pests, but oft mistake, perhaps, a bird for a mouse. They are lovable creatures and wilst oft singeth for hours, and allowed one to pat them. But look out for him when he w aggeth his tail. Now after all that above has been thought over, we may ask ourselves the original question, “Why keep a cat?” That may be answered, briefly, (1) To catcheth mice, (2) To drinketh milk, (3) To keepeth one company, (4) To scareth old maids by waltzing upon the piano, and (5) last but not least, to maketh themselves good target for some enraged sleeper, who doest not wisheth to listen to their serenade, entitled, “On the Back Fence in the Moonlight.”

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