Sedgwick High School - Comet Yearbook (Sedgwick, ME)

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THE COMET flom me Runnlng h1s hands through hls h 111 xx 1th a xxxld gestule he started to 1 1xc cxcltedlx about 1 theory xx hlch he h 1d been xx orklng on for some tlme I1om some leadlng xx hlch he had done ln th :ld mustx l1bra1y he had Come to Deluxe that thls leglon had been the haunt of a once famous plrate The next mormng found us armed xx 1th a compass and a couple of spades on our xx ax to the place xx here the kull xx as found Startlng on the edge of the beach xx here the flrst clue was found xxe took the f1rst bearlng and folloxx ed It to the face of the DFGCIDICQ After much huntmg the Professor found a perfectly engraxed goat on the fl It su1face of the stone By noon xxc h1d found all but the final clue We vxcnt back to the old stone house fo1 somethmg to eat The Professor other clue spent the Whole hour scarchmg through the reference books Ill the old llbrarx Suddenlv he came upon the plctule of an old plrate hold mg., 1 spx glass to hls eye and he rea llfed that thls xxas the mlsslng l1nk Forgettlng about our lunch xve rushed b 1ck xx 1th a telescope and by pomtmg It IH the propel d1I'QCtlO1I a skull stood out xclx plamlx at the base of a bw 111116 Aftel much hard labor xxe felt our padcs str1ke somethlng solld about flxe feet doxxn IH the ground We soon h 1d 1 lJ1g'1I'0l'1 bound chest uncox ered On the qulte xx ell preserxed l1d an other kld goat xxas calxed We HOII fled the dLltl'lOI'1tl9Q at once and then prled ofl the l1d to behold a Qlght of gold s1lx 61 and 1exx els set 1n an ornate Spalllsll stxle In the mldst of the treasure xxe came 11pon a faded xelloxx manuscrlpt xxorm eaten but stlll whole enough to be lead 'We spelled out sloxxlx the feeblx craxxled letters I Captam Iudd xx 1th the remalnder of mx crexx salled lnto thlS harbor the 7th dav of June 11180 Pursued by an Enffhsh fr1 gate xxe turned and gaxe battle I a lone surxlxed and leaxmg my sh1p peopled only by the ghosts of mx men I stealtmlv roxx ed IH the ex enmg untll I came by the llght of the moon to a large rock topped by a p1ne and there I burled the treasure I shall noxx bar rlcade myself behlnd the rock and Walt for the small boatful of Engl1sh sa1lors vxho are roxvmg toxx ards me to land If I xym the fight that 1s comlng I shall vxoxk out a cornpllcated cxpher uslng the slgn of the kld so tl1 It the treasure may be found l1te1 bx me 01 by those lnformed of the plrate Wlth I could nex er understand why mv f11end the Professor was more elated at the dlscox erx of thlS unknoxxn chap ter 1n the hlstory of Captam Kldd the most famous plrate the xx orld has ex er knovxn than at the uncox ermg of the prlceless treasure Edward S1mmons 42 EAGLE ISLAIND Plobablx ex eryone has e1ther been to or heard of Eagle Island It IS only a small lsland ln Penobscot Bav Wlth sex eral summer houses one store and a hghthouse xxlth 1ts perpetual llght gleamlng and bell rlngmg constantly IH ha7ardous weather The legend goes that thlg small 19 land 19 sald to haxe been formed by glants hundreds of xears ago xvhen Castlne xx as lnhablted by sex eral fam 1l1es of these ASl3t1C glants Thex l1x ed IH a huge caxe xxhlch xx as located un v ' y- ' 1 1 - 1 1 ' 'L1 2' 1 1' 1 1' K1 1 Y L1 1 1 1 ' K K1 1 N1 I 'i ' 1 xl' ' tv 1 1 2 ' ' If S 1 1 K1: U , '1 ' x 3 1 ' ' 1 ' 1' ' r ' ' ' ' - 1 1. 1 ' V ' I . V . 1 11 ' . -1 1 4 1 A ta ' ,, , 1 1 ' . 1 , . r' '1 'Q -' ' 1 1 v ' A ts ' ' ' A 1 , 1 '1 1 T' 1 I-1 1 1 - 1 . , , 1 1 - ' 1 1' 1 1' ' . . . . , 4 1 , 5 5 LY , va v y , ' 4 S V1 L1 . . I I 1 1 ' ' 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 ' ' ' 1 1 ' 1 ' a ' - ' 1 'v I v 7 1 . ve 1 . , .. . . . - I 1 1 1 K 1 1 3 , 1 2 ,1 1 1 L1 I b. 1 1 1 ' C 1' 'J 1 . ' f ' A z , 1 x 1 C L 1 1 ' 1- 1 11 1 ' 5 ' 1 ' . , . .. , . . . . ' , ,, tlllflklllg' that he mlght run across an- the spyglass , 1,1 ' ,- 7- . ,' ' 1 ' v 1 1 ' ' r ' - I . . - k. , ' r 2 1 1 . 11 '1 1 - 1 1 ' 1 1 1 7 ' r 1 1 ' 1 1 1 , . .. . . 1 V- 1 1 . . ' I 1 , c 1 1, , . . 1, 1 1 1 ' 1 ' ' I 1. 1. ' 13 I 1 5 v v ' ' 1 11 1 1 q v K l .51 r S' 1 ,Lv K1 D .1 D K1 . K1 'kv 1 . L . - v ' v ' 1 1 v I 1 ' 1 1 1 ' - ' ' ' 1 . , . ' ,1 1 1 1 1 1 '- ' , , , . . , . . n 1 1 5' 1 1 nl v v 1' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1- '1 1 1 ' , ' ' 1 - I wr ' K ' , ' 1- 1 1 ' 1 K1 -

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THE COMET OOOOQOODOODOOOOOQO0090062000000QU55HKMHHHHHHHHHU KNHKHKH QGDQDQQQUOQ UQ 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 O O 0 0 0 0 6 O 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 9 Q 9 4 Q Q U U H H H 9 V H H H 5 N H U H E S U H H H U S 35 RAIN It s 1 1a1n5 day Ex erythlng IS orcnched xuth the peltmg ram The leaxcs blovs flom the trees stlcklng xx hum L1 they land Llttle streams of xx 1te1 1un bcslde the road not p1ck 1ng any dtflnlte path but wanderlng tl then fanc5 leads them The road IS COX619d vuth leax es wet leaves the oak n wt IQ bare Wmter 1s comlng on It s 1 sleepy dav a wonderful day for tm l1Tldg'IH3t1OlT to work Many thoughts seem to run together 1n our drowsy m1nd But along Wlth thlS llstle sness thcle 1s a restless feehng 1n the ttmospherc Ex en the blrds seem uneasy a sea gull goes scallng to the shore to plck up some dlnner Whlle the t1de IS out A flock of xuld geese fly ox Ll not nl than usual V shaped pat tern but rzthel raggedly as lf they had no part1cula1 destlnatxon People drne by not 1n the usual hurry but takmg the11 tlme looklng fo1 somethlng new The w1ndsh1eld xupers ale slow thelr task seems so gn it to them As nc gaze through the wmdovs th ngs seem blu11ed The wlndovx pane IS coxeled xx 1th 1a1n When vse D1Ck out a place xx 1th a llttle less blurr a d1op of 1a1n lands Our dream 1s mteuupted by a fllm of vsater on the pane Slonlx oh so slowly 1ttI'lCk los don n the glass and falls to a graxe of QIIJNN and ltaf strewn earth. LITER RY What a wonderful day for remxn 1sc1ng a day for Slttlllg before the fireplace gamng xnto flames peopled by all kmds of welrd shapes A log falls and wakens us to reallty The ram st11l pounds on the pane the wmd stlll howls 111 the chlmney Prlscllla Byard 42 THE SIGN OF THE KID One stormy afternoon I decided to x1s1t an old frxend of mme Professor Roberts who had recently returned from hlS stud1es IH Parls because of a nervous breakdown He was 11VlI1g ln an old stone house that stood on a heawlly w ooded penmsula 1utt1ng lnto the Atlantlc The Castle as the townspeople called It was accessible only by a very dlfferent path down the cllffs IH back of the house As I enter ed my frlend was holdmg a curlously shaped stone that looked somethmg hke a skull After a short frlendly talk the Professor passed the obJect to me and asked What can you make of 1t'7 On the stone there was engraved a kld goat An arrow leadlng from thls polnted at the hldeous looklng mouth Accldentally I hit one of the teeth and the laws came apart Inslde there was a map drawn on very old parchment paper On It there were four dlrectlons vxlth a plcture of a kld goat between each one The Professor grabbed the map Y . L - 9 . . .. ' v - vl v ' ' ' ' ' ' . L . A , 3 Y Y. Y . . Y Y Y . . . . , Y YAY Y Y . . Y . . . t, 1 . . , -J . , . .. . . . . . . v. 4 . ,. - v - ' c . , . . , ' 7 5 c f . . . . . , . .. . . y . . A . . , ,, f , , , 1 1 1 s 1 Z I . . . . . , 1 4 w 1 Y Y y. . . . , 1 . .Y i . , Y Y Y, A . Y . . , . , t I . . YY . . . . . . . S Sf Eff, ' ' . I .S I . 32 LY YY Y . YY Y Y. Y . Y. . . v . . v f Y ' ' H 77 . , . . ., . , . . , . .Y Y. Y- . . . , . Y . Y . Y Y U Y ,, . . 1 , 2 . -. - . . . - Y Y . . . . 1 C ' 1 ' v . . . . . . . . . . u . . . . . v v , . Y Y . Y .Y . . . v ' Y 1 1 ' v I I at . . , vi av 1 u w Y . - ,, . . , . . . fir: . . . . vs ' ,v ' ' ' I .' S , . ' . . Y . Y Y Y Y. Y . Y . . I . , . Y Y Y. . Y . . .. , ' . . 4 1 14 . w ' . . u . YY Y . Y Y Yi Y A Y -. . - Y. .. . . . 1. --

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THE COMET der the exact spot where the ball fleld 1 11OVl Dur1ng the war of 1813 the unken case was used as a fort by the C1 1 ons of Castlne agalnst the Br1t1sh The glants were of a sery cruel and bloodthlrsty race It ssas dur1ng a par t1cula1ls hard w1nter that they ate es en the1r WIVQQ and chlldren They alvs ass kept the ammals kllled off vs1th1n a hundred m1les of the1r home One sery stormy n1ght as they were returnxng from an unusually success ful hunt1ng and f1sh1ng tr1p among the coastal 1slands the1r huge raft vs as 'fotalls destroyed and they them sels es were drowned The tremendous amount of game and flsh they were car1y1ng at once fell 1nto the bay form mg a small 1sland It attracted eagles for many years unt1l noth1ng remalned but bones mud and earth whlch the eagles used 1n bu1ld1ng the1r nests of the part that the eagles had 1n 1ts formatlon but few people know that 1ts foundat1on vsas made of the bones of g1ants Frederlck Brown 42 CAPTAIN SNOW Captaln Snow sat on the porch of h1s small cottage the smoke from h1S p1pe curllng lazlly around and around and f1nalls d1sappear1ng 1nto the cloudless sky As he looked across Deacon s Pomt to the small lslands ln the d1stance h1s m1nd wandered back to the tlme when he was Captaln of the sessel Betsy ln h1s m1nd s eye he could p1cture the vs1nter when he and hlS brave crevs of tvs enty men crossed the Cape It vs as a stormy w1nter lndeed fF0SSlHg the Cape was nearly 1m poss1ble and only Wlth the best Sh1pS would the most skllled and bravest captams attempt the great task Th1s ss as the vslnter of 1776 It had been an unusually hard wlnter and few sh1ps had crossed the Cape to br1ng back supplles to the starsmg col on1es As the Betss neared the Cape the vseather vsas nne and only two men were left on watch About m1d n1ght Captaln Snow vsas awakened bs the loud cry of the Hrst mate All hands on deck The men sumped from the1r bunks haullng on the1r boots and sllckers at the same t1me Bllndlng snoss and a blow1ng gale met them as thev scram bled onto the deck Captaln Snovs shouted abose tht roar of the w1nd Lower the sa1ls and keep the boat on an es en course E job After many attempts the sessel vas at last safe from the treacherous ledges As the sun rose the w1nd and snovs ceased as qulckly as It had begun Standmg on the deck sv1th h1s half frozen and neaxly exhausted men h knelt 1n s1lent prayer R1s1ng he looked once more at the w1de expanse of dark mysterlous water that by h1s sk1ll had been conquered agaln But suddenly the st1llness of the scene was broken and the proud thoughts of the Captaln ssere xntcr 1upted bs a loud Cly from beh1nd h1m Asast ye lubberl And are se dream1ng agaln my hearty? Get vour self 1nto the galley and to vsork' The capta1n drevs h1mself up to Iull helght at thlg presumptuous 01 der from one of h1s men But the next mlnute more fully awakened from h1s .. Afs 1 '. ' S ' ll ' 1 - - t Z 1 1 . ' f ' . ' 1 s - ' CK 9 A n V A ' A Y' 1 1 7 1 ' 4 K' K K' ' .. - ' , ca , ,rv 14 N, sv 7 7 1 K , - ' - ' , ' s 7 v v . . . . .. K 7 - - 91 . . , 1 . 7 A 1 7 7 ' . 'v 1' Y , A A A1 A A 1 A Y -1 I . . 1 N I - 1 1 - T A Aw . A c . . is sf . 1 I A, , I , A A . . . . ,, V . . . 1 ' . sf- Th1S name Ea le Island remlnds us er member of the crew was on h1s 7 7 ' . 1 . n v 1 . K 1 4 r v so 1 A 7 A. l r A. K A , 1 1' ' ' , V A A A , Y Ak 41 41 if ' - . , e I A ' I A .1 1 - , A is ' kv 1 'ks K. ' . , . A ' 7 1 ws ' 4 A AA 1 . K , . , , 9 1 1 . ' , - X ' 1 K ' v . ' f ' U v 1 l V , u as l ' ' AL A, 1 . , , , . v . U - 1 1 w ' Y yy . V. . ' . Y . v 7 7. . .A 1' ' '- sc , H 7 ' . . . ' . 1 1 l ' Y . . ' ss' x as ar - . ' 1 11 A - .Q 7 1,