Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Y 6 AN AUTUMN POEM Autumn brings its own good fun, Crispy days to play and run. Lovely leaves all red and yellow, Fires burning, and pumpkins mellow. Autumn days are nice and cool, Time has passed for the swimming pool. Leaves are flying, and trees are bareg At night they give you quite a scare. When autumn comes the birds fly southg Red squirrel runs about with a nut in his mouth. The hunting season now is here, Men roam the woods and shoot the deer. Best of all is Hallowe'en, When witches and goblins are seen. Boys and girls are out for fun, Soap your windows, and then they run. We scare our friends with funny faces, And hide their things in funny places. We duck for apples and soak our shirts, And even wear our sisters' skirts. Roben Wiklund Grade VI THE EGYPTIANS - Ancient Egypt was about the size of the State of Arizona. There were two parts. The first was lower Egypt, consisting of the Nile Delta. Beginning in july every year and continuing for four months there was rain in the mountains where the river has its source. Not all the Egyptians were farmers. Some were weavers, cabinetmakers, gold- smiths, glassblowers, tailors, and shoemakers. Women wove delicate linens as line as silk. The Egyptians' year was made up of 365 days divided into 12 months of 30 days each. They learned astronomy. They worked the Weights and measures and made advances in arithmetic. Peggy McNeil Grade V A BOAT RIDE We went on a boat ride. I had fun. We even fate on the boat! It was a yacht. The name on the back of the boat was Sea Beef' Sometimes when we passed another boat we bounced up and down. It had a bedroom and a bathroom. Sometimes we liked to lie in the bedroom. We were ahead of a boat called Lady Anne but it passed us. We got ahead of it again. It was the faster boat because it passed us again. ' . Nancy Lea Corey Grade IV Seventy-five

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THE HEIFER CALF Our class at church one Sunday decided to try and raise enough money to send a Holstein heifer calf over to Europe. That would cost about 55200. We sent a letter to a company that sells Holsteins, and in return they sent us a pamphlet telling about their young cattle. We decided that each child should try to raise a dollar and give it toward the Heifer Fund. We thought this a good idea since other churches were doing the same in order that the starving children of Europe could have milk in the f-uture. I told my parents about the idea as soon as I got home, and they thought it quite a fine one. Right then and there they started thinking of ways in which I could earn my dollar. I might make my bed, clean and dust my room, practice the piano an hour each day, and rake the leaves twice a week. There was a list such as this every day, ready and waiting for me. Pretty soon I counted up my money, and I had exactly ninety-nine cents. One more penny was all that was needed. My father then said that he'd just give it to me. So I took my dollar to Church with me that Sunday. We soon got the amount needed, and the heifer is on her way to Europe. Valerie Moore Grade VI WINTER Winter storms are here at last, With sheets of ice that look like glassg And snow is high on hill and plain, And on the creeks where once you ran. You go to the barn and get the sleigh, And brush the cobwebs all away. You drag it out and look under the seat, And see a bird's nest all nice and neat. Now the sleigh is all rigged out, Everything is trim and fit and tight. All the paint is nice and bright, Even the runners shine like a light. You wake old Dobbin in his stall, And wonder if he can walk at all. You find he is so full of hay You have to urge him half the way. And that's not all, I had to drive him to Hamden Hall. Howard Rose I Grade VI I A COLLIE I am a Collie. Once I had no home. I was wandering in the woods one day. I was so hungry. I saw a little house and a little old woman at the door of the house. She seemed-to be struggling to get in. She was falling. I am a Seeing-Eye dog. I could tell that she was blind. I barked in a friendly way. I wanted to help her. She liked me so she kept me. Now I am a beautiful collie. My name is Buff. ' Sally Pickands Grade III Seventy-four A

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MY HOMES When I was a baby I went for three rides in an airplane. I flew from the West to the East, back to the West, and back to the East. My first home was in the West. It was a,very pretty house. It had an orange tree in back. My next home was in the East. It is a big house. I have a swing and a slide in the back. I have a baby brother. His name is jimmy. Anne English Grade IV MY TRIP THROUGH THE WHITE MOUNTAINS During my summer vacation I went on a trip through the White Mountains in New Hampshire. We started out expecting it to be good weather. As we came near the moun- tainous area it grew cold and damp and started clouding over. We were going to the Flume in Franconia Notch. My father had been there once before. A short while before we reached there we came to a place where we could see the Indian Head. It was very beautiful. After arriving at the Flume Gorge we decided it would be a beautiful walk to the falls. Soon we heard the falls roaring in the dis- tance. There -were many wooden steps built so one could look over the sides and see the falls below. It is almost like a series of falls only they all are joined together. The falls are in a crevice in a rocky mountainside. We enjoyed this part of the trip very much. After riding a little farther we stopped to see the Old Man of the Mountain. just as we returned it started to rain in torrents. We also went to Crawford Notch. In Crawford Notch there were some beauti- ful falls too. The brilliant autumn colors made it very beautiful. Cynthia Adams ' Grade VI ' IF I WERE A BIRD If I were a Songbird, I would fly down South every winter so I wouldn't freeze or starve. I would eat all the seeds that I could find. I would sing the sweetest song in the world. Every morningl would get up early and fly over 'tree tops and look at the world below. Then I would fly back to the nest I was building. My nest would be the nicest nest in the whole flock. Douglas Lapham Grade III Seventy-fix