Woonsocket High School - Quiver Yearbook (Woonsocket, RI)

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THE QUIVER A CALENDAR OF THE YEAR 19 By Anna San Souci, Lester Taber, Mary Lynch, Thomas Ryan, Dorothy Gledhill, Doris Pease, and Catherine Coleman JANUARY January, is full of cheer, With blustery snow, and the glad New Year, With its usual thaw of ice and snow, Showing its days will longer grow. FEBRUARY February’s cold and dreary, But our thoughts are very cheery; And our hearts leap very high As we go for a coast near by. MARCH When March winds blow o’er field and hill And grass begins to grow, Then comes the yellow daffodil, To make the gardens glow. APRIL In April there are many showers, Which tend to bring forth lovely flowers. In swamps the frogs begin to “peep,” And buds and insects wake from sleep. MAY May is the month of flowers, Which April rains do bring. They cover all the bowers Early in the spring. JUNE The month of June is lovely. The best of all the year; With the birds all singing gaily, And the air just full of cheer.

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18 THE QUIVER Here we cooked a light “snack”: eggs, bacon, pancakes, fish (caught by trolling on the way), and coffee. After lunch we immediately proceeded on our way. About two o’clock the current grew stronger, and, seeing the water flash in the sun, we knew we had arrived. At the foot of the “rifflin’s” was a large rock, surrounded by deep, quick water, just the place for bass. We caught a large eel there. Getting up close to the shore, we fished one at a time, as a person in each end was needed to hold the canoe against the current and keep it from punching holes in its side on the rocks. We had taken two or three small bass (about a foot long), when suddenly Dad’s rod bent double, and the reel remarked, “Whizzzzz!” That fish was a “holy terror.” He tried to go under the canoe, under sunken logs, around rocks, and, all these failing him, jumped clear out of the water, splashing us with the bright drops as he shook his head. But he was doomed, and we took him in the landing net. fully twenty minutes after he had felt the first prick of the hook. Nearly sixteen inches' long, weighing about five pounds and a half, he was probably the best, though not the largest, fish we caught on our two weeks’ trip. By this time the wind had shifted and was blowing upstream, but we were hungry and triumphant, and how we made the water fly! Down the six miles of river, up the two miles of lake, we raced without a stop. The wind blew so hard on the lake that I was kept busy bailing the tops of waves out of the canoe. Oh, but the “Mushroom” was inviting! Oh, how the odour of frying bass and eel tickled the nostril! Oh, the way a dinner of a bass a foot long, half a large eel, two or three “spuds,” six or seven flapjacks a foot across and an inch thick, topped with half an apple pie and a pint of milk, tasted, and how comfortable the bed was when, the inner man full, the mind at rest, and the body tired, we put out the lamp and turned in. CARROLI H. RICKARD, ’26. Miss C—: “What is a coat of mail?” D. B—r: “A male coat.” Teacher: “Who were David and Goliath?” Pupil: “They were lovers.” Teacher: “Give an English word derived from ego.’ D. S-n: “Egg.”

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20 THE QUIVER JULY July’s the first month of vacation; Its days are clear and bright; It brings us rest and recreation And fills us with delight. AUGUST Beyond the grim and troubled town, In carefree August I would go Where aimless, narrow paths wind down, Where nodding lilies love to grow. SEPTEMBER September brings the autumn leaves; The harvest is begun. The little birds nest in the eaves, While we are having fun. OCTOBER When the green leaves turn to gold, And the dawns are crisp and clear. How our hearts do bound with joy, For October days are here! NOVEMBER November is the autumn of the year. The autumn with its stacks of ripened grain; Thankful days, the days so full of cheer. The message comes to all o’er hill and plain. DECEMBER December brings the hail and snow. And jolly Christmas time, you know, When tiny tots are very good, In hopes they’ll get more than they should. Miss O’D—: “Now. put another circle on the board.” A. B—d: “A round one or an oval one?” Mr. L—: “How would you proceed to demagnetize a watch? Pupil: “Drop it.”