Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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11 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD Sunday, July 23rd. Well, I had my bath today with disastrous results. I stood with nothing on outside our bunkhouse and pro- ceeded with a bucket of warm water, to eradicate some of the growth about me, the while a crowd of ribald individuals collected on the deck above me and made rude remarks. Then they pelted me with grease and, when I had taken refuge in the bunkhouse, made off with my clothes. I had lunch in my birthday suit. The clothes turned up one by one throughout the course of the after- noon until finally I was able to discard the blanket which I had adopted. When one has tended cattle for ten days one gets to know their characteristics pretty thoroughly. One also learns all sorts of little tricks for managing them. For instance, if one wishes a steer to get up, let a little drop of water from a bucket trickle down the back of his neck. Steers don't like this, and get up rather quickly. When we were getting the beasts aboard at the beginning of the trip I discovered a wonderful method of making these stubborn beasts move. All one does is simply grasp the steer's tail and curl it into a loop,-then twist vigorously: when you do this in the aforesaid manner the results are surprising and as follows: if he is a good steer he shoots forward like a rocket and then stops in exactly the right positiong if he is not a good steer he shoots forward but fails to stop,-then bedlam breaks loose. Monday, July 24th. We sighted land this evening and it won't be long now is on everybody's lips. I can scarcely believe that only three weeks ago I wrote Trig. at T.C.S. This morning we hauled forty bales of hay out of the hold to get at four bales of straw underneath them. It seems rather peculiar so near the end of the trip but We actually had life-boat drill today. Tuesday, July 25th. We worked and sweated all this morning getting five hundred bales of hay out of the hold, that is, all Worked except myself for I had the job of tally-clerk. After lunch I switched with Eben for some minutes for he was a bit done,--he'd been down there over four hours. When we docked this afternoon we were forced to get to Work in our best clothes and lift the blasted bales onto the deck. We must have looked a pretty ragged crew when We finally got through the customs, all coated in hay and dust and sweat. After losing our way several times while looking for the address given us where we might get lodgings we finally entered a temperance hotel and went to bed. . 1 v. 4. .-

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 125 Shine, he says, Come on boys, Rise and Shine. Everybody rises but nobody shines for at least another hour or so! Both Eben and I swear savagely at each other throughout these early morning hours, but no harm is done. Just before lunch we passed Belle Isle, our last sight of land on this side of the Atlantic. By evening we were well out in the Atlantic, and I began to feel very very slightly squeamish. Wednesday, July 19th. Today started off badly for me. I awoke to that hateful call Rise and Shine, and to the conscious- ness of a sickly interior. At breakfast QI almost had to leavel one of the fellows gave me a tablespoonful of brandy which helped things considerably. At the moment of writing we are all in the cabin. Ross Newman has cut his thumb and had some difficulty in stopping the blood. Eben Cutler is in high spirits for he has just had a shave. Rhodes is in his bunk reading,-he's the laziest bum I've ever seen. He's even lazier than me. Thursday, July 20th. Today was marked only by a long series of anecdotes. The most interesting were those about the war by Blimey, Ca little cockney who came aboard drunkl. Blimey is an excellent talker and knows how to tell a story. He inserts his oaths in exactly the right places a.nd gains peculiar emphasis by them. The food maintains its high standard, particularly in the case of the meat. There being no refrigeration on board the standard of this particular foodstuff is very high indeed. I have wisely turned vegetarian. 4 Saturday, July 22nd, We have been at sea for five days now a.nd the accumulated diet of a week in a cattle boat weighs heavily on me. I shall have a bath tomorrow by means of a pail, and enjoy the sensation of cleanliness for an hour or two. This morning after workldetermined to try my hand at photo- graphy. Spying the captain mooning about on the lower deck I approached him boldly and addressed him-not q.uite so boldly. Would it be possible for me to take a photograph from the bridge, Sir? Aye, answered the old Scot,- It would be possible. Yes, but can I take one, Sir? I persisted. You could, he answered without committing himself. Rather daunted I tried again. Yes Sir, but I want to take a picture nowg will you give me your permission to go up onto the bridge? ' I'll see the third mate about it, said the captain. However he did see the third mate about it, and in the end I got two quite good pictures from the bridge.

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD 15 The return to Canada of Newman and Cutler is, we are sorry to say, unchronicled. Stevenson, however, who came back some three or four weeks later than his fellows gives us the following day by day description of a rather hectic crossing. The month Cutler and Newman in England of September was marked throughout the world by a series of hur- ricanes and violent gales. The Kastalia had the bad luck to run into one of the more ferocious of the hurricanes. :1: 21: :Zz :Ez :iz Friday, September Sth. We came down to Swansea fRhodes and IJ yesterday afternoon but only signed articles today. After lunch today we strolled over to D shed and came upon a somewhat discouraging cargo-boat, the Kastalia. The Kastalia is a 2,500 ton ship and, according to the other men on board, has an un- pleasant corkscrew motion while at sea. She is taking aboard a cargo of tin which is, I believe, a rather steady article: but I don't think there's nearly enough of it to make her as steady as I should like. Saturday, September 9th. Our crew this trip is very different from that on the Sa1acia coming over. My present fellows are all Canadians and, so far anyway, a very decent lot. Most of them