Calhoun School - Ink Pot Yearbook (New York, NY)

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in k pot the twins B ARBARA and Mary were Twins. One day Their TaTher came home wiTh a Twinkle in his eye. What is iT? cried Mary and Barbara. I knowl said Mary. WhaT7 asked Barbara. Tomorrow is Hallowe'en, you know. Yes, said Barbara. WeII. FaTher has someThing Tor Hallowe'en. Ohl exclaimed Barbara. This Time The Twinkle in TaTher's eye grew bigger. WelI. said moTher, l Think iT is Time for you To go To bed. So do l, said TaTher, l do noT wanT To be boThered. BUT please Tell us whaT iT is. FaTher shook his head. So oTT To bed They wenT. ln The morning They saw a big pumpkin in TronT oT Their beds. Thank youl Thank youl They shouTed as They ran inTo Their TaTher's room. How would you like a Hallowe'en party? Oh, yes! They boTh shouTed. I inviTed some oi your friends, TaTher Told Them. 'WhaT Time are They coming? AT Twelve o'clock. Oh, goodyl Run upsTairs and puT on your besT dresses, said father. So up The sTairs They ran. As soon as They goT downsTairs, a group oT children came rushing inTo The room. When all The children went home They all dreamed oT The nice Hallowe'en parTy. ARLYNE PROPPER. Third Grade. an adventure underground H ELEN was picking Tlowers in The Tields when she saT down under a Tree To resT, Thinking, How nice iT would be iT someThing inTeresTing would happen. The nexT Thing Helen saw was someThing gIiTTer in The corner oT a cave. She wondered if The gliTTer was a monsTer's eyes. She was TrighTened and looked abouT To see if There was a chance To escape, when she saw a Tunnel leading To The sea. GreaT waves were splashing againsT The rocks in Tury. There wasn'T any noise excepT The roaring and splashing oT The sea. Helen knew The gliTTer couldn'T be a monsTer or iT would growl. She looked again and saw ThaT iT was gold. She ran To The gold and gaThered handfuls oT iT, dropping iT To hear The Tinkling sound. She Tilled her pockeTs wiTh as much gold as They would hold, Thinking whaT a pleasanT surprise her parenTs would have. Helen leTT The cave by walking Through The long Tunnel unTil she reached The beach. The waves were so greaT They seemed To splash her. She awoke in The midsi of pouring rain. the apple tree ln my garden is a Tree, ThaT blossoms There Tor us To see. And as I waTch The apple Tree, IT geTs bigger iusT Tor me. ln my Tree There is a nesT, There The bird Tamily grows The besT. They sing sweeTer Than all The resT, IT seems as iT They never resT. GLORIA GARTEN, FourTh Grade. what i saw Alone in The nighT On a dark hill, WiTh pines around me Spicy and sTill. And a heaven Tull oi sTars Over my head- WhiTe and 'Topaz And misTy red. NORMA SHAPIRO, FiTTh Grade. continents There-'s Asia on The avenue. And Europe on The sTreeT: And Airica goes plodding BeneeTh my window seaT. This is The promised land of dreams Where worlds and naTions meeT. Ah, do not say romance is gone- Behold The ciTy sTreeT. BARBARA KELLNER, Fourih sta rs You gleam up in The sky so high, l beg oT you. please Tell me why. BuT please sTay up There all The while. Because- l like your smile. You look like lanTerns in The sky, BUT all The while l wonder why. Grade. BARBARA KELLNER, FourTh Grade. JOAN SAMEK, Fiifh Grade. TiTTy-nine

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ink pot the haunted house W E had been driving all day and loward nighllall we arrived al a small village. There were no holels, so we wenl lo lhe nearesl house. As I knocked on lhe door, a dog barked lrom wilhin and soon an old lady opened lhe door. We asked for sheller and she allowed us lo remain lor lhe nighl. We were cold and lired and decided lo slay, in spile ol lhe poor hospilalily shown us. We were laken inlo a large room wilh an old-lashioned bed in lhe cenler. Il looked so inviling lhal we soon fell asleep. Suddenly I awoke. There seemed lo be someone in lhe room. I could hear a groan now and lhen which gradually died away inlo a whisper. Across lhe window pane appeared a black shadow wilh lhe Iargesl head I ever saw. I dared nol waken my sisler for lear ol lrighlening her. Would morning ever come? We dressed hurriedly and I lold my sisler ol lhe horrors ol lhal nighl. The old lady asked us if we had slepl well. I lold her whal had happened. She laughed and said. Thal was lhe wind you heard coming down my old chimney, and lhe shadow across your window was my cal lhal prowls al nighl. We lell as soon as we could and resolved never again lo sleep in a slrange place. TESSA LIPPMAN, Sixlh Grade. nigalak NIGALAK was a li++Ie Eskimo boy. He lived in lhe Far Norlh. His molher's name was Ikwa. His lal'her's name was Agoonack. One day Nigalak's molher was having a baby. She named il Nipsu. Agoonack was on a hunl. When he came back he had a polar bear. His molher skinned il righl away because she needed lood and clolhes lor Nipsu. Nigalak was oul playing wilh his lriends. Eskimo children play shooling games and lhey fish. When Nigalalc gol home his molher had some bear meal ready. Nigala'4 was hungry and lired. He ale and lhen he wenl lo sleep. GLORIA BARNETT, Third Grade. m0ther's love UNE day as molher bear was in lhe woods leeding her young cubs, she smell danger in lhe air. The molher bear was willing lo risk her lile lor lhem. When she discovered lhal hunlers were aller her and her cubs, she quickly lold her cubs lo run away. The molher was lacing sudden dealh. As lhe hunler was aboul lo shool, lhe sherill ol lhe counly came along and said, You know lhis is nol lhe hunling season. You will gel a hundred dollars line or a hundred days in iail. While lhey were arguing lhe molher bear slipped away and lound her cubs. Animals are like people in lheir supreme love lor lheir children. MURIEL SIMON, Sixlh Grade. the sun and the moon While lhe sun lies lasl asleep, The slars inlo lhe dark nighl peep. The moon so yellow and so brighl Is dubbed lhe guardian ol lhe nighl. While il slowly passes by, The slars lheir nighl walch keep on high. The sun awakes from his long sleep And from his warm bed, slowly creeps. ll is lhe break ol lhe coming dawn. Il is lhe slarl ol a beaulilul morn. The sun is rising higher, high. 'Tis day, lhe sun is lhe king ol lhe sky. IRMA NEWMAN, Sixlh Grade. lilly-eighl

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ink pot I11BI'y 0 NCE There was a liTTle girl named Mary. IT was near Hallowe'en. Mary could have a pumpkin Tor Hallowe'en, and her moTher said she could Iowe'en came Mary made a iack-o'-lanTern. ThaT nighT Mary lighTed The iT on The Table by her bed. While she was asleep an old wiTch Tlew in The asked her moTher if she have one. When Hal- iaclc-o'-lanTern and puT window and Took Mary and The iack-o'-lanTern To her huT. JusT as Mary was going inTo The huT, her moTher woke her up and sa.d, lT's Time To geT up. BARBARA LIGHTFOOT, Third Grade. early blrd E ARLY BIRD was six years old. He was ouT hunTing wiTh his TaTher, FIeeT Deer. He caughT a deer and broughT iT home. They cooked iT, and Then They aTe iT. The End MARION NATHANSON, Second Grade. morning in the tepee O NCE upon a Time There was a IiTTIe boy named Red FeaTher. One morning his moTher was ouT picking sTrawberries and Red FeaTher heard a noise. IT was an enemy Tribe near. He was TrighT- ened, buT They wenT away and he was noT TrighTened any more. MARION NATHANSON, Second Grade. how man got to see the owl GNCE upon a Time There was a house and There was someThing very mysTerious abouT iT. Every nighT when everyone was asleep, iT wenT inTo a deep wood and sTayed There unTil dawn. In This deep wood There was an owl, He was a very odd owl because he was invisible To man buT he was visible To The old house. The owl was invisible To man because an old wiTch made him so. Though The owl was The smarTesT owl in The world he couldn'T make himself seen by man. Now when The old house spoke To The old owl aT nighT They Talked of conquering The wiTch so ThaT man could see The owl.. One nighT The house ThoughT oT a plan. He said To The owl, The wiTch lives in This wood. doesn'T she? Oh, yes, answered The owl. The house said, The wiTch has a sword ThaT will kill anybody. So when she goes To sleep aT nighT we will Take The sword and Tell her ThaT we will kill her if she doesn'T Take The spell away. ThaT nighT when The wiTch wenT To sleep They sTole inTo her house and goT The sword. They ThreaT- ened her, saying ThaT if she did noT Take The spell away They would kill her. The wiTch was Torced To Take The spell away and man can now see The owl. RAYA SPIEGEL, FourTh Grade. chee wee C T-TEE WEE was a liTTle Pueblo girl. Chee Wee could weave bIankeTs. Whenever iT was Trading day she would Trade. The Trader liked her blankeTs. One day Chee Wee wenT down To The Trading posT. She saw a IiTTle papoose doll in a caboose. She asked, WhaT do you wanT Tor ThaT doll? The Trader said, l would like your preTTiesT bIankeT. AlI righT, said Chee Wee, I will geT The blankeT. Chee Wee ran home. Her moTher was making piki bread. Chee Wee sTole a piece of piki bread. Her moTher saw her. She said, WhaT are you doing? Chee Wee did noT answer. She iusT ran down The ladder. Her moTher ran, Tool Her moTher caughT Chee Wee. She said, Now iusT Tor ThaT you may noT go ouT any more Today. So Chee Wee had To waiT Tor anoTher day To geT The papoose doll. GLORIA BARNETT, Third Grade. the sun Where goes The wind on a summer day? Maybe oTT some place in heaven To play. BuT soon again The sun will come ouT, Then all The children can run and shouT. They'd like To sTay and play some more: BUT The sun goes down aT half pasT Tour. ARLYNE PROPPER, Third Grade. night The sTars were shining brighTIy in The sky, The moon was soTTly gliding by, A bird was sleeping in iTs nesT, The sun had gone away To resT, The children were dreaming pIeasanT dreams, The nighT was waiTing Tor The day's sunbeams. MADELON SHAPIRO, FiTTh Grade. sixTy