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

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BLUE AND WHITE 27 PUPPY LOVE Helen Jarvis, ’33 “Beautiful, charming, lovely, bewitching, dazzling, tantalizing—Oh words cannot describe her!” thought Tony as he watched the proud beauty jealously. He was seated in a window-on one side of the street, and she was in another on the opposite. All that night the flame in Tony's enamoured heart, fanned by absence and longing, grew stronger. The next day, at the identical hour as on that previous, he was stationed at his post in the window. He could hardly restrain 'himself from rushing out and clasping her, his Cleopatra, his Des-demona, in his embrace. His heart soared in transports of esctasy as he again beheld her exquisite platinum loveliness. He scarcely dared breathe. Ah the bliss of it—to be so near, and yet—so far! His nails fairly dug into the chair. His whole form was tense. He saw nothing else. Nothing else mattered. If only he dared speak to her! But it would be sacrilegious for a perfect stranger, no matter how smitten by the sentiment which caused the Trojan War and so many another, to address one so lovely. Nevertheless, longing, yearning, he daily hovered near the window until she should appear. The cruel fire deep within his soul grew fiercer and fiercer. But, as Rome fell, so must many of our loftiest aspirations fall to the dust with a crash. Alas, one day early in spring, when the thrush trilled the perfect melody of love, there appeared in the place of his idol, his Venus, a snippy looking red-haired stranger. Oh! The dreadful thought of it! Would he never see her again? Will he? Who knows? What does it matter? Tony is only a love-smitten curly Spaniel in a boarding-house window ; his vision of loveliness only an albino Pekinese in a limousine; and that terrible newcomer, a Pomeranian pup.

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26 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL LAUGHS FROM THE LATIN CLASS Robert Larrow, in Latin IV—“Iphi-tus was bowed down by the weight of his grandfather.” Mary Bourget—“I upp’d and passed out.” Francis Little—“- gilded decora- tions of our forefathers.” Robert Larrow—“I lost my head and picked up my arms.” Miss Maxham—“Describe the underworld.” Francis Little—“As it was then?” From an English XI Paper— Sewall was “an author whose work was like a widow in old Boston.” We also learn from English XI that “Poe gambled and drank hearty.” Miss Booth, talking about chairs, “See what a difference proportion in legs makes.” Question—“How deep should a cellar be? Below what line?” Ellen Pecue—“Below sea level.” Question—“What is one of the layers of the sidewall of the house?” Dorothy Leonard—“The ridgepole.” In Home Economis XII, talking about dishes: “What are they doing with china now ?” Doris Dugan, thinking of History—• “They’re fighting.” George Blakely in English XII— “Bunyan married a poor girl like himself.” “We learn from one member of the Junior Class that Cooper’s fame rests on his “Leather Tale Stockings,” and from another that he created the original character of “Long Tom Casket.” In Home Economics XII—“Where would you start if you were housecleaning in your mind?” Mr. Carter tells us that Rose Roy is still searching for Silas Marner. Improvements in Rome— Helen German—“They fixed nice places to park the cars.” Charlotte Miner (reading “Evangeline”)—“-and in accents disconsolate answers the whale of the forest.”

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28 VERGENNES HIGH SCHOOL Thomas Mack Coal Co. We are now handling the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Anthracite Coal. COMPLIMENTS OF We can say without the least qualification that it is the most William J. Strong satisfactory coal we have ever handled in an experience of fifty AGENT FOR years. Customers come to our office ALL KINDS OF FIRE and say that it is the best they have ever had. INSURANCE Try it and be convinced. THOMAS MACK, Manager. COMPLIMENTS OF COMPLIMENTS OF WARD W. MERRILL Max Fishman’s SUCCESSOR TO BURROUGHS BROS. DEPARTMENT STORE GROCERY STORE