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

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A STORY OF TOMORROW Hey, gang, come on over t’ the’ barn an’ take a look at m’ new rocket car!” It was Slim Miller talking to the Woman Haters, a boys club, gathered in Jilken’s drugstore for an afternoon coke. Ha ha,” laughed Phil, leader of the Club. A rocket car eh? I s’pose it does a hundred fifty up hill? Ha, ha.” The whole gang was now jeering Slim. Aw com’ on fellows, have a heart. I just finished my new rocket car an’ if ’n yo don’t b’lieve me com’ on over an’ take a look.” Okah, fellas,” said Phil. Shall we exert ourselves enough to take a look at this jerk’s new death car? All of yer what does, signify in the usual manner.” Like a troop of wildcats all the boys were running down the street, through back alleys, over high fences, across gardens into the Miller’s barn. Then everyone but Slim burst into laughing fits. Rocket car! ha, ha.” Well, what’s so funny?” demanded Slim. I s’pose you call that thing a rocket car?” asked Phil. Sure.” Why, it’s perfectly round.” Natch.” How does it work?” It rolls.” Ha! ha!” Well, it does.” Yeah? Well, what makes it go?” Atomic velocity or sumpin’.” Yeah! Or sumpin’.” Well?” But it’s round like a marble, no wheels.” Don’t need wheels, it rolls like a marble.” 12

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wonderful cleansing power, provides you with the perfect soap that gives lasting protection. Sold in assorted colors and sizes at all drugstores. Be sure to get little Billy the pink elephant-shaped soap cake. He’ll really go for that. And for Pappa Willy there is a handsome fish-shaped cake. Remember! Willy-Lilly-Billy soap spelled backward means— I cost only five cents. Oh, and to think that an announcer gets paid for say- ing that. Albert,” (that’s you, fellow student) your mother suddenly hollers before you have time to swoon at the an- nouncer’s pleasant voice, It’s time for my favorite news reporter. I simply must hear him.” But mother,” Sis remarks. Lovella Parsons is on the air now and I simply, positively, must listen to her. Why, Van Johnson may have been married and if he’s not going to wait for me, I’ll sue him for cruelty to children. What’s all this nonsense?” Pop suddenly pipes up. To settle the argument I’ll listen to a hockey game.” You’ll do no such thing John,” mother sharply re- plies. Albert, turn on my program.” Just then fate takes a hand and the fellow next door begins his nightly shave with his electric razor. The radio blatantly blares out with some soft, soothing static and everybody with nerves wearing thin shouts, Albert, turn off the radio!” So, Albert you’d better turn off the radio, even if the static does sound better than the family arguing. Yes, turn the radio off and go back to your studying, son. Smother your desires for enjoyment, and take a shovel along when you begin one of Sandburg’s poems, or per- haps one by another author similar in style. You’ll need it to shovel your way out from under those deep-in-the- bowels-of-the-earth meanings. 11 —Robert Garvin

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 How d’ya get in?” On the side.” How do you tell side from top on a globe?” The door’s always in the same place. It don’t move.” How yo gonna see thru an inch o’ red paint?” T’aint paint, it’s glass. Ya kin see from the inside out but cha’ can’t see from the outside in.” Don’t cha git kinda dizzy rollin’ in side that thing?” I don’t roll round in it. I got a special seat equip- ped wit ball bearings.” Let us see it woik?” Okah.” Slim stepped in side. Nothing happened for a mom- ent; then Slim called out, Hey you lugs, give a push, m’ batry’s dead.” The boys pushed and the car, with a low buzz, whiz- zed off at lightning speed. About a quarter of a mile down the street the rocket turned and whizzed back to the barn before any one could say Jack Robinson. Half a mile in five seconds!” gulped Phil. And he lived through it,” squeaked Harry as Slim’s head appeared. It’s a success,” yelled one of the crowd. Boy, you’ll be the most popular boy in town!” cried Phil. Gee, ya must put an awful lotta work intor it.” Naw, only a week”. Only a week!” Sure, Why?” How long did it take ya to get the plans?” Took three days fer’em to come.” What cha mean?” Jist what I said.” Ya mean to say you drew the plans and built this contraption in one week?” 13