Vergennes Union High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Vergennes, VT)

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TIIE BLUE ANI) WHITE. 11 Grinds. Limericks. Our Teachers. There’s gladness in their gladness when they’re glad, And there’s sadness in their sadness when they’re sad, . But the gladness in their gladness And the sadness in their sadness Are nothing to their madness when they’re mad.— Ex. To make a small limerick Isn’t hard; for most any old stick Can grind out a few In a minute or two. No indeed, it’s not much of a trick. “Miss Evelyn!” Cried Alden: “Oh, that to love me you’ll learn For you ever I languish and yearn. Of you I’d ne’er tire My heart is afire.” Said she : “Then you must have heart-burn.” “Mr. Alden!” Said Miss Gough, “Dear, how well you propose. How e’er did you do it? I wish you’d disclose. Oh please now, do tell!” Said Alden then, “Well I’ve had practice and know how it goes.” Our editor surely’s a peach He works us a limerick each Though with Tib he do spoon By the light of the moon, Other pebbles there are on the beach. There was once a fellow7 named Slack, Whose hair was decidedly black; He thought he was fine Playing back of the line, But on a school team to gain he hadn’t the knack. Haven, ’OS, is a cute little boy. His map, “Ellen’s Isle,” is a toy. Ilis poor heart will break He’s been oft heard to state For his Ellen, so sweet and so coy. The quarter, ’05, is named Stone, At tackling he’s game to the bone; And when he gets through We’ll feel mighty blue For he’s certainly in a class all alone. There was once a brave Indian, a Sioux Who had a pappose, aged tioux. Its name wras Amusin, Being plain English Susan— A name among Indians quite nioux. There w7as a young man, so we’ve heard Who could sprint like the flight of a bird. His end runs were fine. But his bucking the line Against the “school team” was abstlrd.

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CHARACTER S K E T O H E S OF ’06 NAMES UIIOIALITY BY-NORD VICTIM OF CUPID APPLELLATION IDENTIFICATION CHIEF DELIGHT AIR CASTLE Geo. Davies Jap “Blank!” In Summer Darthmouth Feet Cross Country Walks Of Auburn Hair Julia Woodman Pigmy “Scandalous!” Vacations Juliet Lengthy tresses Yachting Romeo Leslie Willis Dutchman “Rotten!” By Spasms T ubby Smile “As You Like It” Artist Flora Burge Scotch “0, Gee!” Often Roly-poly G. A. P. Band Concerts Actress Elizabeth Adams Arab “O, Go On!” Always Tib A Bill Scanning Lap-dog Harold Stone Yank “Splash!” Bashful Skee Freckles Cicero! To Own a Bath House Alice Mullen Irish • “Why, Why!” Mon’s and Wed’s Sweet Alice Curls Playing Dolls Boarding School Belle Parker Filipino “Now C.!” Sure Birdie (Departed) Reminiscence Lynn Foster Young Canadian “Don’t Git Flip!” When in Bristol Cy His Laugh Giggling B. T. Lineman Anna Tier Esquimaux ? Hardly Tear-drop Dimple Punctuality Teaching W. H. Carter Pole “Kid Trick!” Now and Forever Bill Length Hating Cottage by the Sea Gertrude Fisher Angles “He’ll Find Out!” A Little Bangs Arms Corn Roasts Variable CHARACTER SKETCHES OF 7 O T NAMES DISPOSITION MI HE (SHE) THINKS HE (SHE) IS WHAT HE (SHE) REAL-| LY IS APPELLATION IDENTIFICATION CHIEF DELIGHT BY-WORD Leo Pratt Hilarious Pretty Big A Joke Johnnie Bull Corpulence Sleeping “By Jove!” Leonard LeBoeuf Antagonistic Up in History Athelete Jo Beef Gift of Gab Touch-downs “All Skee!” Geo. Slack Pugnacious It 1 ude Pacer Derby CombingThatHair “Wha’cheGiven Us!” Grace Parker Sunny Good Dancer Grasshopper Der Fraulien Heels A Bank “For Cat’s Sake!” Geo. Meigs Just so Polished Student Farmer Nutmegs Beard String ‘‘Fire and Brimstone!” S. Woodman Fierce ' Orator Maniac Woody Gesticulations Pumpkin Pies “Great Caesar!” Henrietta Fisher Ray Meullier Spicy Artist Smart Sour Grapes F. Hen Tommy Her Face Squint Biology A Posy “Grab!” “Thunder!” Wyman Bristol Squeaky The Only Pebble A Junior Broomstick Spectacles Vera “By George!” Jennie Harris Mild A Bird Bridget Joy Beauty A Grin “Land!” Benjamin Bristol Precise A Banker Mania’s Boy Mr. B. Bristol Scholastic Bearing Girls “My Gracious!” Vera Bullard Meek Governess Old Maid Eyes Commentaries “Up a Stump!” Rexford Adams Uncliangable Mechanic Canoe Builder Shinney Sobriety Skating “By Jinks!” Woodburn Harris Sleepy Perfect Boy A Freak Tow-head A Book I)ancing(?) “That’s So!” Harold Newton Happy go lucky A Model A Problem Brownie Brogue 11 is Own Way “Cheese It!”

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12 THE BLUE AND WHITE. There is a young man, our big full-back Whose hair is a terrible pull-back. He can hurdle the line, His tackling is fine, And next year he’ll captain at full-back. Said Newton— “I’d rather be living than dead, I’d rather be single than wed; I’ve a good appetite And I sleep well at night”— Could anything better be said There lives a young banker named Young; An unkindly joke he once sprung. When he starts to write verse All the Juniors disperse; For than praise them he’d rather be hung. Woodman spare that tree, That on the fair-grounds you can see. For if that tree you once did hit With all your speed, you would, Oh nit! Tear up the roots of the grand old tree. One day Freund Sinon lay down for a snooze, He dreampt he had on some seven league shoes, So he started to trot And caught up with Miss Yott And his heart he proceeded to lose. Pratt once had a very fat cow. As fat quite as butter, I vow, Tie had the cow slain— It became fat again, And the fat is the fat on Pratt now. If you will just notice When Mack’s at the dance, You cannot help seeing He has on long pants. And now there’s another Whom you all will want to see Who has followed his example And that is Cecil B. The moral of this rhyme Is plain to all who dauee, If you want the girls to Like you, put on long pants. Once there was a little boy, Who loved to fishing go; It was his very highest joy, As every one did know. Once more his little boat he took, And rowed out on the bay ; Then blithelv did he cast his hook, With spirits light and gay. But then a monstrous fish did tug, And pulled him in the lake, And straight across the waters broad The luckless youth did snake. As we have never seen him since, Nor news of him have met, For all of anything we know, He may be going yet. —Composed by a Junior. N. B.—One of her classmates spent a day at Long Point last summer. He didn’t get back till band concert was nearly over. I think that our rest we have earned. For much here this term we have learned. Our school is a go, So let’s keep it so, The V. II. S. now stands adjourned. Problems for Students of Advancd Mathematics. If Woodman, in translating Caesar, speaks at the rate of fifty words a second (including attact and attacted) and Harris at the rate of one word in two minutes (including the “remaining Gauls”), find the mean proportional between the two. Note