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

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- u - THE HOLE IN THE CEILING Drip, drip, drip, the water is falling Right upon our kitchen floor, Where is the plumber? Mother is jsrying. I can t stand this mess any more. Knock, knock, knock, the plxanber is here. Bringing his bag of tools. ' »Hurry hurry, It s right over there. We re awfully wet with all the pools, When the plumber fixed the leak. He said, Come over here and see The job I did is mighty sleek. I am the best plumber, you see. Brian Medjuck Prep 5 Age 10. FEAR I fear walking down the street on a dark night when nobody is around. When I look up, the moon seems like a witch riding aro md with her husband, the goblin, and three little witchlets behind. When I go to bed, the bed squeaks under me. The light above me seems like a man ' s skull. After a rain storm the trees hang heavy over our house, and the drops go drip, drip, drip. But if I take my mind off fear, I will go to sleep. Geoffrey Neal Prep 4 Age 10. FALLING There was a boy called Walling, Who took a step and was falling. When they asked, Where are you? He said, In my shoe. And that is what happened to Walling. They tried to get him out. But he was just too stout. They put in -a pin. He said, Now I » 11 be thin. But that just didn ' t happen to Walling. Kevin Brown Prep 4 Age 10 A YOUNG MAN WITH A NOSE There was a young man with a nose. Who always scratched itV with his toes. He said it ' s a bore And my nose is so sore — That silly young man with a nose, Mark Oliver Prep. 5 Age 11.

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- 15 - FEAR One Hallowed en I was walking the street, and I heard some spooky noises. I trhought the noises were coming from ... All of a sudden I was grabbed by a white arm! I was a prisoner. They took me into the middle of the park. They made me bail out all the trick-or-treats I had. They shared out all the candy. The goblins had my lollipops | the witches had my chips; the bats nibbled at apples; the ghosts had my chocolate bars, I was terrified! I thought of how I was going to go home empty-handed. Finally I figured out what I would do. I would say I gave it all to The Children ' s Hospital. So I went home. Then I heard Mum say, David. Time to get up and go to school. It was all a dream, David Newman Prep. 4 Age 10. SPACE Pluto is too cold; Mercury is too hot; Venus is too cloudy; Jupiter is too big; Uranus is too green; Neptune is the same; Saturn is too dizzy; Mars is too red; But Earth is Just right for me. David Haldane Prep. 4, Age 8. FAIRY LAND In fairy land you can play, play, play all day long. There are no schools, no teachers, no churches — not even any parents. In fairy land you only get twonty-four years old; then your age goes down to one. When you are one, you die. Once I was up in fairy land and I saw a flying horse. This horse was no usual horse, because he had a pig s tail, a chicken ' s legs, a bird ' s wings, and the voice of a horse, and the body of a bofsc- Robert Waddell Prep. 3 Age 8. THE CHRISTMAS HDLIDAYS I will go out and ride on my sled. The snow falls all day long. It comes down in big heaps. We will go away on the train on December 24. After we come back, Daddy will go back to work. Howard Center Prep. 1 Age 6.