Wells River High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Wells River, VT)

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“I tft.w rthat a scene of desolation wo beheld on the morn- ing after the fire I All that once had been the beautiful home now lay charred and worthless. Years of hard earned hopes destroyed in a matter of minutes. Once an imposing shelter of luxury, now a smoking, unsightly mass of refuse. A wonderful servant, yet terrible in a master's position is the element which is the cause of more disaster and death, than any other force of affliction - Firel

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TC TWILIGHT HOUR (A Study In Words ) It had been a rlorious Tuesday in the sunshiny month of August and somehow one was glad after all to be sh ring ever, this tiny slice of life. The luminous orb as if loath to leave so charming a section of this vast universe ever until tomorrow had slowly sunk as evening a proached, behind black, fleecy, threatening clouds, hardly had it disappeared when as if by magic a cool but refresbi- g breeze obligingly swept across the valley, irds, crickets a; d grasshoppers w' ich hitherto had been chirping and singing to their hearts cc tent wore worder- fullv silent as though trying to defy the impending' inevitable. Old Charles War part gazed wonderirgly across fields of ripe f;rain hich shortly would mercilessly receive their dew, to where vast stretches of foliage failed r isera.bly to hold aloof from the perfect printing just above them. In fact they lent a restfull background to old Charles Wampart’s dreaming soul. And as he gazed into space he unconsciously abandoned all cares and lost himself in reveries of the past. Slouched comfortably in his strawbottomed chair, his fin- gers interlaced around his knee with his foot resting on the round and his chair tipped back, he was thus supported against the marred door casing. is old straw' ’-at none the better for wear, was pushed back off is shiny forehead------almost campl : oely covered with ayseeds and wisps cf cobwebs which trickled delight- full1- onto his broad shoulders. The Daily Globe was lying neg- lected across his lap with his dark rimmed spectacles on tog of it. The scene commanded a picturesque setting of supreme comfort to the casual onlooker.