Rockport High School - Tatler Yearbook (Rockport, ME)

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18 THE TATLEB the countryside for miles around. Ift. roused guards from their homes, and tumbled prisoners from their cots. The guards ran for their posts thinking it was a prison break. Running to the condemned row they stopped horrified before the shat- tered cell number 117511. The walls were dripping with blood. VVilliam Roebuck had cheated the chair. Robert Hare. Ten Minutes of a Business Man's Life It was my first day as a newspaper reporter. I had been assigned to interview Mr. Jones, a prominent manufacturer. After waiting two hours I was in- formed by a secretary that Mr. Jones was very busy, but that I might go inlto his office and wait for a mo- ment. VVhen I entered the office Mr. Jones was dictating to another sec- retary. After investigating your proposi- tion, he was saying, 'tl have changed not only my decision but also my lawyer-consider yourself fired. I'll sign that letter, Miss VVinkle, and you may go . tlrabbing a :telephone he called a number. Hello, is this Ames' Produce Company? It isn't ---lllll sorry, I got the wrong num- tier . fllperator, please give me number hastily 1121. Hello, who is this please? The Old Ladies Home! Bang! Went the receiver. D Please, operator, What number nmst I call to get 1191? You have given me the wrong munber twice . A pause. 'llhen someone answered. VVho is this? he asked. The In- sane Asylum . Crash wenit the window as the telephone, wire and all went sailing through 1 ttVVell, what do you want? he yelled. UNotliing at all, Mr, Jones, I--I was just leaving. I replied, and hurriedly made my exit while I was able to do so. Priscilla Crockett. Why the Leopard has Spots Once, a long, long time ago, there were no menwonly a great magi- cian. Except for him, the world was ruled by the animals of the jungle. Among the animals there was a leopard niamed Billy. Now liilly was a handsome young leopard, and proud of his sleek, smooth skin. But sad to say, Billy was a thief! At night when everything was still, he Would glide softly through the tall grass of the jungle, stealing the food of the tiger, and all the other resi- dents of the great forest. Soon, the leopard's victims began to suspect that the thief was some- one who lived in their own forest. So the lion, king of the jungle, called a meeting which all the animals were to attend. .Xl this meeting, the subject of the thief was ot' course brouglit up. We must rid ourselves of this robber, said fthe tiger. Ile is a menace to our homes! But not one of them could find a solution to

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0:or1oZnio101o1u1ir1o:4xiini:xiixiiricrioiniiuioiixioioiinioimxioi gzg iiuninr High nina E .!.,-.,-.-.-,---..-.,-.,-........-.,-.,-.,-.--.,...-.,-.,-.,-.--..-..!. l,l'l'ER,XRY An Amazing Experience tlne night a friend and l started lo walk lo town. XYe had not gone tar wlhen we nn-It an old woinan with a pig. She wus trying to get him over a stile. VVe stopped to help her hut sudden- ly the pig disappeared and there- was a eow with a ernnipled horn who started to ehase us, VVe ran so faslt we soon got into town, and hearing inusie in the 'I'own Hall, we went in. l'l'here was a hig danee lieing held there, hut, sueh a danee! XY4- eould hardly he- lieve our eyes. 'l'here were pigs, eows, horses, hens, and dueks daneing, singing, and inaking nierry. .ln oetopus sat on the stage play- ing a violin, a piano, and a di-uni. .Xt one side Donald lluek and tllara tlluek were singing a duet. Miekey Mouse was doing a tap danee on top ol' the piano. lloraee ' and tloofy were trying one to danee with lthein. tlow was serving puneh and eake. no plaee for hut as soon llorse tiollar to get some Claralmelle NVQ- deeided that was us and started to leave as we turned toward the door, llor- aee llorse Collar and Goofy grabbed us and started dancing us around the hall. 'Phey stepped on our feet and huinped into everyone. The niore we struggled to get away, the tight- er they held us, VW had just ahout given up try- ing lo get away when we heard a hell ringing. It Continued to ring and slowly l woke up, Thank goodness, it was only a dream! lloherta Sinnnons. Grim Satisfaction XYilliani lloehuek was a oondenin- ed inan locked in a cell at Aleatraz. llope gone, he sat silently with the shadow ol' the electric ehair hefore hiin. Suddenly a light eanie into his tired ey:-s. Roeihuek set to work, Froin his eot he took a short pieee ot' hollow iron: digging into his pos- sessions he took a deek ol' ordinary playing eards and lore the red hearts and diamonds out. Isle -then soaked them in water and stut't'ed thein into the tuhing. This man knew that playing eards are inade ot' eellulose, a produet. from whieh nitro eellulose, the powerful explo- sive, is niade. XYhien the tuhe was ready he took down from the wall an oil heater, flyer the tlaine he heated the tuhe while steani and gas gathered with- in the tulle. He put his head against the tuhe. .lust hefore dawn a terri-V tio explosion oecurred. lt rocked

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'l'Ill'l T.VI'Ll'IH 19 the gireat prohlem. Now, while all this was going on, the magician had made a trap which he knew woul-d not fail. He then set the lrap in the home of one of the victims and watched t.o see what would happen. VVht-n the leopard finalily appeared, he walked straight into the trap and was held fast. Presently, the magician came lo him and said, Billy, all your life you have done nothing hut steal. Now, I mean to punish you hy ex- posing' you to PVQ-'I'Y0l1l', so that -they inlay hewarr ot' you. From now on, you, and all the meinhers of your l'amily will he distinguished by the spots which I shall cause to appear on your hodyf' XYhen the leopard looked down, he saw that this was not an idle threat. For the first time in the world, a leopard had spots. Rita Gash. POETRY soNc. or A MODERN MAIDEN I wonder if h-e did not like The way I wear my hair Or maybe he .thought that my new dress Had too much of a flare. I-Ie may not care for girls who smoke And go t-o tears and such Did the things I said sound silly? Or did I laugh too much? I wonder what he d-id no-t like Or what it is I lack He thanked me for a lovely evening But never did come back. Barbara Richard son. ROCKPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOL R is for Rockport on the sea coast of Maine, O is for ocean, Atlantic is the name. C is for college, where some of us will go, K 'is for knowiledge, that teachers- all sihow. P stands for some pupils, what problems they are, O stands for others, who look on from afar. R stands for replies, they are sometimes all right. T stand-s for tests, for which we study all night, G is for Greennose, Oh so tall, R is for Railph who is quite small. A its for Arlene which is my name, M is for Mary D. of basketball fame. M is for many who play on the team A is for Aninie or so it would seem. R: is for Robert, whose last name isf Deane. S means spinach which we should eat, C' tis for carr-ots, which are hard to beat. I-I stands' for honey made by the bees, O is for orchard where they work in the trees. O is for others we'll keep ever in mind, L for the last of this funny old rhyme. Arlene Kellar. THE WEATHER On snowy days I run around, While big white snio'w1iakes came danc- ing down. I run and play from morn till night Until the sun is out of sight. On rainy days I play indoors And crawl along on very hard floors. Through the attic dark as nrigiht To reach a trunik way out of s'igl1.t.