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

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- 13 - FORM B ' s WHITE MICE On March 9th Tony Gillis brought a female mouse and Paul Cochrane brought a male mouse to school. David Morse brought his empty snake cage to put them in. We put some newspapers in before we put the mice in. Then on March 29th we found some baby mice about half-an- inch long. They sucked the milk from their mother. It wasnH easy to count the mice at the beginning, because they were under the newspaper in a heap. We finally counted eight baby mice. We fed them bread soaJced with milk about once a day. We have to clean the cage out once in three days or it really smells. They rip up all the newspaper for warmth. The mice in the beginning looked horrible without fur, just skin. About fovoc days later they began to grow fur, and two weeks after that they became active for the first time. On May 1st (Open House) some of us were allowed to take home a baby mouse, I took one home. I keep him in an old aquariimi. He is hard to keep inside, because he chewed through a screen, through a careboard box, and now I have four-ply board on top, and he has almost chewed through that, too. He climbs up his screen, jumps onto a board, and climbs up a string. He makes his bed out of newspapers. He crawls under the newspaper and rips it up until he has a warm bed. He prefers to sleep in the dark. Christopher von Maltzahn, Form B Age 10. SNOW FLAKES Here come the snow flakes, Whirling through the air. Falling light and heavy. Without a single care. Some are big and some are small, Falling here and there | Yet all of them will have to go And melt with the warming air. Paul Trapnell, Form B Age 10.

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