Trafalgar School - Echoes Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

Page 32 text:

A WISH I wish I had a lamp like Aladdin ' s. I ' d wish upon the stars. I ' d wish for a sister Madline And a bunch of chocolate bars. I ' d wish for a dog named Rover And a doll named Elimay. I ' d love them both all over And play with them each day. Elaine Frank, Lower I, Age MY PAPER BOAT ONE day my thirteen-foot sailing boat started to float away. Luckily, I jumped aboartl. By the time I tried to get her back to shore a big liner was in the way. A member of the crew called out to me, Do you know we ' re bound for Tasmania? I called back, You are! That night the Captain ordered a member of the crew to throw me a rope. I tied it to my boat securely. He yelled to me, Want to sleep in a spare cabin? I answered, Yes, sir. T hey let down a rope ladder, and on my way up I fell into the deep ocean. I woke up, and found myself wet, and in the brook . . . I looked for my paper boat, and wondered, Where can it be? Then I saw it floating down stream. I grabbed for it, but in vain. Suzanne Kerr, Upper I, Age IOI 2 A LITTLE GIRL ONCE upon a time there was a little girl. She did not have any mother or father but she was very happy. All day long she would pick flowers and one morning she was walking by a cool brook. Suddenly she saw a house and she stopped to look inside the window. Then she saw an old man and the old man came outside and said, What are you looking for? The little girl said, I have no home and I have no mother or sisters or brothers or father. Then the old man said, Would you be my little grandchild? She said yes. Zana Main, Preparatory II, Age 6 PUPPIES I ' uppies are squirmy And wiggly and cuddly, And when it rains Their feet are mud-puddly. They strew things. And chew things In puppy-dog prankings. And waggle their way Out of scoldings and spankings. iNET Shaffran, Form II, Donald House [30]

Page 31 text:

GOING HOME HEY were flickerini; thoughts; thoughts ol a dying man. Before his eyes the mud hut, complete with cockroaches and the stench of rotting meat, came to life again. This hut had been his home for sixteen years. He could see the prison walls behind which he had spent several years because he had dared to fight for a free India. The beautiful face of his wife, who had stood by him in time of trouble, he saw with vivid reality. He also saw the blue pen with which he had recently signed an agreement ending the bloodshed between Pakistan and India. Then, all went black. The great Shastri was dead. The only sound in the darkened room was the sobbing of Shastri ' s faith! iil servant. Other than that, quiet prevailed for many moments. Then, as the shock wore off, the doctor and Shastri ' s secretarv began to make the appropriate arrangements. The latter dialed the hospital. Yes, that ' s right, please send an ambulance and notify the police. The phone clicked as the receiver was replaced. It is very sad. He was a wonderful man, said the doctor as he pulled the covers over the little Prime Minister ' s head. Martial music rivalled the roar of the super-jets as the Soviet band played a last tribute to Shastri. Sunshine glinted off the instruments and warmed the coffin-bearers. The c offin was not heavy, for the Indian had been frail and he had weighed only a hundred and ten pounds. Up the ramp and into the plane they carried him. The engines whined as the great plane took off. Inside the plane ' s belly lay India ' s dead leader, and he was going home. Home to a country where to live one more day was an accomplishment for most people, a country that was the testing-ground of democracy for the whole world. Home to his people who would stampede to see him once more, but who would also ready themselves for a new leader. Life must go on. DoDi Blaylocic, Form HIa, Donald House HOLIDAYS I love summer because it is nice for holidays in the coiuitry or at the sea. In the winter you can ski but I like summer best. Jacqueline Hall, Preparatory II, Age 6i 4 [29]

Page 33 text:

MY PET PEEVE WE are constantly being made aware that today is the era of electronics and computers. Today is the age of dizzyingly rapid progress. A missile has safely reached the moon. Problems taking hours to solve, and requiring the greatest minds, are now solved in seconds by electronic brains. Yet in this modern era there is one area in which no progress whatsoever has been made. This is the department of cheese packaging! True, modern machinery is used, and almost all the work is done by it. True, only the most sterile of methods is used. But cheese packages are almost unopenable! One may struggle and plead with the monsters, yet nearly every pack have ever tried to open has stubbornly remained immune to any attacks made on it. First one begins by faithfully studying confusingly simple directions. Then one faithfully tries to follow them. When no penetration has been made at one end, one tries the other end. The sticky plastic remains imperturbed. One gentlv punctures with a knife, ripping one side to shreds. Then one tries a fingernail, and succeeds only in furrowing the cheese. At this point many yield. But other hardy souls, frantic, tear the offending cellophane violently from the cheese. This seems simple enough; once having punctured the pack, just remove all the paper! But in a few days the entire block is stale, robbed of its freshening plastic. This is a disgraceful situation! Government officials, scientists, armies, navies should be called in. But there is a simple solution! If all frustrated cheese openers were to imite under a common banner, Get out of Vietnam and help us open cheese packages , we might be able to persuade all democratic govern- ments to provide their people with churns and send all those terrible packs to communistic areas. Then surely their scientists could develop an easv way to open cheese packages while ours devoted their time to reaching the moon. It should, then, be a simple matter to land a man on the moon first, while Russians are struggling with cheese packages. Jeanie Macleod, Form IIIb, Ross House Zana Main, Preparatory II, Age 6 [31]