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

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12 - Minnie who was a curious bear, tried to break the lock of her cage and she did it, in about a quarter of an hour. Minnie then piilled the freight car door open, and she hopped out. At first she didn ' t know where she was, but then she thought she must be in a forest. It was lucky for her that she had landed in a protected forest and that she could not get shot at. Then all of a sudden she was hungry, she had never oaten berries before but she thought there was a first tirae for everything, and also she was hungry. After she had eaten she wandered into the forest and she passed a stream and her natural instincts taught her to fish. After she had caught about five fish she wandered on some more and she saw a cave, it was getting late and she went in and went to sleep. The next morning she went back to fish at the stream and to her surprise there was another bear there, and they made friends and mated after a while. Another surprising thing was that he lived in the same cave but a lot farther in. When the snows came Minnie hibernated. In the spring she had two cubs, one a she and one a he. She had learned a lot in those last few weeks of fall and she taught the cubs all she knew with the help of Jack her mate. The two cubs names wore Sabo and Jack Jr., we will call him Jack not Jack Jr. now. They learned to fish, to swim, to climb and lots of things cubs have to know. Well, that was the adventure of Minnie, she is most happy now with her cubs and Jack her mate. This is where we will leave them, happy. Ralph Petley Jones . NOISE Noise is something that anyone can do. You can scream, breathe, thump, jump, yell, screech, preach, and make many more noises. Not just people make noise, but so do saws, cars, plows, lawn mowers, planes, trains, boats, trees, water, glass, tin, and steel, and so does plastic. Noise can bo accidental, or can be on purpose. Noise can be harsh, loud, soft, low, and high. In the night you can hear things you never hear in the day. The v orld v ould be strange and quite a horrible place without noise. Sometimes a noise can be funny or sad. The noise we make is a step, a sneeze, a yawn, a sniff, a snap, and many other things that I can ' t tell you, that we do by accident or on purpose. Hugh Cor s ton. THE FIRST FLYPIG ISH A long time ago there was a fish that was turned into a stone, locked into a rocket and shot into a bird ' s egg. The bird sat on that egg for ninety-nine years and forty-three days. When the egg hatched out cam.e the fish. It had two wings, so it was the first flying fish. Eric Myrhe.