Halifax Grammar School - Grammarian Yearbook (Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada)

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bark and so we ran again. When we got back to the barn we were puffing and panting, but this was no time to rest. We saw the farmer, and he saw us. He had a rifle under his arm and he shot it at us, but he missed and he could not see us any more because we were in the corner of the barn under the hay. That night I was searching for food out in the meadow when I saw the owl ' s shining eyes. He saw my little body and so I ran. While he was coming down he bumped into a dead stump and his head was very dizzy for quite a while. This gave me time to escape. Now we are playing merrily in the meadows. - Richard Hand. MY LIFE AS A MOUSE I was born in the basement of a house, in winter. I didn ' t know it was winter, but my mother told me about the deep snow outside. With my brothers and sisters I lived in a little hole behind a wood pile. My mother had found an old woolen sweater and had made a little nest out of it. We were always hungry and my mother was busy all the time looking for food. Sometimes she brought cheese, flour, wax, cake and bread. My mother told me to watch out for traps, dogs and cats. I was once outside the wood pile when a cat came after me, but I was just able to scamper away into my house. When I was one month old I left the nest and found a home for myself. When spring came, and with it warm air, I had my house in a barn which was very comfortable, and now I had to look for owls, foxes and other enemies, I was returning home on a moonlight night, when an owl saw me, but I ran under a plank in the grass. Once I was really caught by a fox, but I broke away from its grip and ran home to safety. - Randy Piercey L5

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A VIKING RAID I am an Anglo-Saxon boy, named Finn, and I live in a village by a river. One warm sunny morning I was on a small hill some distance from the village when I noticed a ridge of white on the horizon. At first I thought it was a fog bank, but then I saw the red stripes of Viking sails. It was a lovely sight but horrible thoughts ran through my mind as I built the fire with which I intended to warn the village „ By the time the ships reached the mouth of the river I had the fire blazing well and could hear the sound of hammers from the people building the barricade. After the Vikings rounded a bend of the river I heard the sound of a great battle. About an hour later I saw the Viking ships leave. I raced through the woods to the village and found two houses on fire but mine was not among them. My mother came out panting, We have beaten the Vikings. - BoMacCulloch L5 LOWER 4 There is a class called Lower Four, The teacher hopes there ' ll be no more Than twenty— five people in that class, I hope her wish will come to pass. Friday tests come one, two, three, Spelling, Mental and English B, Tuesday on the way to gym we go, In summer, autumn and winter snow» Wednesday we sing galore, galore, From ' A Drunken Sailor ' to ' Sir Eglamore ' . All the time with laughter we roar. That ' s not all, we do lots more. - Victor Goldberg,