Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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18 The Blue fr VVhite AN IDEAL SENIOR One who is so helpful, Pleasant as can be, Is just my idea of what An Ideal Senior should be. Never calls us freshies, Never makes us mad, But still, that's something Westbrook High Has never, never had. But wait until the class of '32 Arises to its height, We'll keep the would-be seniors Lying awake at night. And, of course, when we are seniors, Ideal we shall be, We'll treat the freshies wonderful just like they treated me. I. F. L., '32. A SIMPLE SIGN It was in a grocer's window That she saw a simple sign. And as she stopped and slowly read it, Her blue eyes seemed to shine. Then with scornful lips she murmured, As she tossed her pretty hat, How I wish that men were labeled With a good plain sign like that. So when she had passed, I ventured Near that favored grocer's shop, And espicd this simple legend: This Corn Warranted To Pop. R. B., '29. THE HAUNTED POINT One summer night in 1927 when I was camping at North Star Camp, East Waterlmoro, Maine, the Camp Supervisor was telling ghost stories. He described a point of land about half a mile away where a man had been murdered and thrown into the water. The old settlers for miles around were afraid to go near this point ever after be- cause it was considered haunted. One settler to'd that on an April morning as he stopped on the point about five o'clock, he had 'seen two objects in the water which looked like the arms and hands of a mang others also had reported the same story and said that they were the arms and hands of the murdered man which appeared there every morning. After the Supervisor finished the story. he asked if anyone wished to sleep out on the point. Three other boys besides myself volunteered. im- mediately got our blanket-roll, and started out. As soon as we arrived on the point, we made our beds and lay down: we lay awake for a long time listening to the whippoorwills when all at once we heard a hideous scream: then all was quiet. and finally we went to sleep. The next morning as we woke, we looked out on the lake and saw two arms and hands project- ing from the water. VV e arose and hiked back to camp. After breakfast we got a boat and went to investigate. What do you suppose we found? The hands were gone. PHILIP HANsoN, '32, RECIPE FOR A MODERN NOVEL Stir in a fool to make us laugh: Two heavy villians and a half: A heroine with sheeny hairg And half a dozen beaux to spareg A mystery upon the shoreg Some bloody footprints upon the fioorg A shrewd detective chap, who mates Those footprints with the hero's eights, And make it squally for that gent, Till he is proven innocent: A brown stone frontg a dingle dell gl Spice it with scandalg stir it up well: Serve it hot :-and the book will sell. I. P., '30. EZRA ELI u 'Ezra Eli' was my ol' hoss, An' lemme whisper sumpin: he was boss. I-Ie wouldn't let wimmin drive 'im CAsk m' wife, she triedj, Nor he wasn't no saddle back Wot thim city fellers ride. Old 'Ez' was a one man hoss, An' thet one man was me, An' I'd be drivin' the ol' boy now If he hadp't got spavins on 'is knee l D. H., '30.

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20 SELECTION FROM OVID THE FoUR Amis, ltTHE FLooD, DEUcALIoN AND PYRRHAU In three of his poems. namely: The Four Ages, The Flood, and Deucalion and Pyrrhaf' Ovid tells a story very similar to that read in Gen- esis. Instead of the God in whom we now believe, Ovid wrote of the old Roman gods. There were supposed to be many of these gods and goddesses, each one of whom had his special field. The Romans prayed to one god about love, to another regarding war, and so on. The Four Ages tells us that the flrst years of the earth were called the golden age. Then there was no need of law or punishment since every- thing was right. No war ever waged. The people lived contentedly in eternal spring weather and only had to gather their food. The silver age came next with the four seasons which we now know. The people were obliged to make homes in caves and to plow the ground to raise produce. This era was followed by the bronze age, which in turn was superseded by the iron age. Now all wickedness burst forth, including war. I The next chapter of the world's history is told in The Flood. Iove, the highest of the gods, looked down on the world and decided to punish the people for their evil doings. He did not wish to send fire as it might burn the homes of the gods, of the sea, he sent a Hood. The earth was com- pletely covered with water. The poem Deucalion and Pyrrha tells of the two people left upon earth after the deluge. They prayed to the goddess of prophecy to Hnd out how they should people the world. She told them to cast the bones of their great parent behind them. Deucalion and Pyrrha interpreted this command to mean that they should throw certain stones in back of them. They obeyed orders, and at once the rocks turned into people who thereafter inhab- ited the world. These works of Ovid are widely read and en- joyed. They are short poems written in dactylic hexameter. Each line is composed of six feet, most of which have one long and two short syl- lables, and is accented thus: The Blue fr VVhite HP0.Yff1Mfl711' Safurno fencbros in Tartara Missa. It is easy to see how vividly this can be read and how much the meter adds to the value of the poem. The verses seem to swing along clearly and simply, yet to tell an interesting story. There must be something in Ovid's poems to have made them last for about two thousand years. It is hard to define this something as a single quality, but probably these poems are remembered now as much for their interesting simplicity as for their depth. M. P.. '29. God fashioned the earth with skill, And the task which he began He gave, to fashion after his will, Into the hands of man. But the l-Iower's uplifted face, And the sun and the wind and the sea, Bring messages still of the beautiful place, God meant the world to be. H. S., '29. CUMBERLAND AND OXFORD CANAL In writing up this old abandoned canal I will give a short sketch of its beginning and comple- tion. It was begun in 1820 and finished in 1829, only one year short of the time it took the Amer- icans to dig the Panama Canal. The canal was constructed for the purpose of carrying freight into and out of Cumberland and Oxford counties. Factories were located in Harrison and Bridgton, the products of which, together with large ship- ments of timber and cordwood, formed the chief cargoes to be carried to the coast. Teams were used to carry this cargo to Harri- son to be loaded onto the canal boats, which were sixty feet long and from ten to twelve feet wide. They had sails to use in crossing the lakes and men to pole them down the numerous rivers to the big Sebago Lake. From there they went by canal, drawn by a horse attached to a sixty-foot towrope and walking on a towpath made especially for him. The horse was sometimes driven by a boy: usu- ally, however, one of the men sitting on the boat would throw a few rocks at him. A man at the helm steered the craft by an old-fashioned rudder. The masts were set in jaws so that they could be