Elmwood School - Samara Yearbook (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)

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SAMARA BETTY sits behind her desk (B. Peek.) And never makes a sound. But, in the cloakroom, shoes, hats, books Are tumbU ng all around! Although Lorna ' s very sweet I ' ve heard that it is said That if it were not screwed on tight. She would forget her head! Mary ' s good at basket-ball (M. Blackburn.) And is a jolly sport We like her very much although Her temper ' s very short! JULIA is Miss Tipple ' s pride, At singing she ' s a dream, But when she starts to do her sums She is a perfect scream! In basketball young Sylvia Stands up so awfully high She just puts up her hand and gets The ball out of the sky ? ! Polly cannot do such things As History so well, But you ought to hear her when she talks In French to Ma ' moiselle! Vals Gilmour is a gay young bird She loves to dance and sing But when it comes to Algebra She cannot do a thing! A studious child is Letty, In school she ' s never late. If she keeps up the way she does Some day she will be great! An hour each morning Betty spends (B. Carter). In brushing down her hair. For if she brushed it up ' twould give Her Mother quite a scare! 7

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SAMARA cally to scrape on the snow; soon, to the men ' s surprise they saw a piece of a fur coat and sleeve. Then they caught hold of the coat and got O ' Riley out. At first they thought he was dead but after much rubbing a little colour came back. They put him on the sledge and took him to the Post. When they got there one of the men said, By Jove, if it isn ' t O ' Riley of Black Creek Post. I knew him for a plucky lad but I am afraid if it had not been for his dog it would have been ' goodbye ' for him! When O ' Riley was able to speak he told them his story, and one of the men told him how, a few hours before, a dog had gone running into the camp with a man ' s cap in his mouth. They knew how very intelligent huskies were and so concluded that someone must be buried in the snow, so they had started out to look for the man letting the dog lead. We know that the dog was Bob, and that it was he who had led them to the spot where his master was buried. The next morning O ' Riley insisted upon starting, and the men, although they did not want him to go, gave him a team of dogs with a sledge with Bob in the lead. O ' Riley arrived in Dawson just in time to save his company. Bob was the hero of it all for he had not only saved his master ' s life, but also his master ' s company, and when O ' Riley told his story all he could do was to praise the Faithful Bob who was lying at his feet. BETTY CARTER. JINGLE RHYMES CATHERINE is a clever child. She ' s head of Elmwood School, Although sometimes she ' s very quiet. She ' s noisy as a rule! RUTH falls over desks and chairs (R. Bostock) . And cries out ' Hurry on! ' But when she gets up to the door The others are all gone! 6

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SAMARA Betty is so stiff and tall (B. Fauquier). In dancing she ' s not bright. But as for things like History In them she is just right! There is a young girl in our School Whose figure ' s very large. We used to call her by her name But now we call her ' Marj ' . MARJORIE BORDEN and BETTY FAUQUIER. OUR TENANT There is a little fellow, brown, with three dark stripes on his back, and a long furry tail who lives in our rockery. His full name is Mister Chipmunk, but we never call him anything but ' Chippy ' . He drives us all distracted with his tricks, but I think we should be very sorry to have him leave us. He has a hole under one of the smaller stones which he takes no pains to hide, and he darts in and out when Mother and I are within two feet of him. Unfortunately he has a great appetite for bulbs, and this has nearly been his undoing. One time Mother bought some expensive bulbs and planted them in pots out of doors. Next morning she noticed that the earth was disturbed in the pots and started to pack it down when she saw that the bulb was gone from one of the pots! She dug hastily in the others and found that the villainous Chippy had eaten all of the bulbs but three ! 1 had to beg very hard that time to save Mister Chipmunk from destruction. Have you ever seen a Chipmunk have hysterics? It is very amusing. One day a dog came provv ling round the yard and frightened Chippy up into a tree. He clung up there, hiccoughing as fast as he could, so I came out and drove the dog off. But Chippy refused to come down. He clung half way up the trunk of the tree and cried, sounding exactly like a wheel very much in want of grease! He stayed there for over an hour, crying and hiccoughing steadily the whole time. He was finally persuaded 8