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

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MY CATMUFra Muffin is my cat, He is short and fat. He sleeps on my bed And his hair begins to shed. 4hen he eats He likes to have treats; We give him milk in a dish And he also loves some fish After eating, he goes out. To get him in we have to shout Because Ivluffin and my sister ' s cat Are trying hard to catch a rat. Jhen he comes in He is very thin From minning around All over the ground. Ian Smith. LIKERICKS There was an old man from Gran Who fell in a frying pan, He was so hot, Quite red he got, Until he found a fan. Richard Shears . There was a man, who when little, Fell casually into a kettle. But growing too stout He could never get out; So he passed all his life in that kettle. David Birch-Jones . IN mYPT Once upon a time I v ent to Egypt. VJhen I got there, there was a magic carpet. On it, it said to sit on it, so I did. I sat on it and it started to fly, it took me to a far off desert. There in front of me there was a big castle. The castle v as made of rocks and slaves made it. VJhen I was half way around it I saw a slave working. Just then men surrounded me and each man had a whip. Ihen the King came in he said I would have to be a slave like the other man. The slave work was to chip rocks and make a house out of it, then you had to chop some wood and make furniture out of the wood. (continued)

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- 8 - One day as the guard was ralking straight like a robot an idea came into my head. It was to make a robot. I told my fi-iend, and he thought it was a good idea. So we made it by night, and worked for the king by day. The idea was to press a button and the robot would come out and kill the guards then it would go back vjhere it came from. Then we would spray something on him and he would turn invisible. V e did that imtil we killed all the guards. One night when the king was asleep wo came and killed him, we got the map that was in his pocket. It said that he was going to send an executor to kill us. It showed where they wanted to gOj so they followed and got where they wanted to go, and they lived happily ever after . Gregory Crosby. m adveimture bt a far off la nd I had an adventure in the Congo. What happened was, two thieves, (Jewelry robbers) had escaped from the Halifax jail. They had headed to the Congo to steal some of their precious stones and handicraft. With an explorer team of three, we all set out to trail them. We came to a village with people who were sad and the leader of the team asked them what v as wrong. One man answere d and we translated the words to find the robbers had stolen a god with a ruby head! We found we were on their trail. On the way wo met a lion. I took aim with a gun but before I could shoot one man yelled Boa Constrictor . The lion leaped for us , VJe ran for the jeep, then we drove off. Soon a storm came and our hounds couldn ' t trail them. After some days the dogs got the scent. Then we started off again. The whole Congo was siirrounded by men. Also other teams were closing in for the crooks. Soon we found a cave. The other teams found it too. Finally we ran in and saw the robbers. They saw us and came peacefully to jail. Then we returned the ruby headed god. David Wainwright. MY PET My pet is a ham;jtcr. She is tawny with big black eyes. She is only three or four inches long and weighs one or two ounces. I call her Rotsmah, that is hamster backwards, and she lives in a brown cage. Retsmah loves to eat cabbage and pieces of cookies and cake, but sometimes she just gets sunflower seeds, barley and rheat. All the water she gets in summer is pure but in the winter she gets Infantol mixed with her water. Infantol is a medicine that helps to keep her healthy through the winter. (continued)