Montreal High School - Magazine Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL MAGAZINE 77 ABOUT MY FARM AND THE SCHOOL- BOYS' SUMMER SPORTS In the summer all the boys and girls have somewhere to go. Their sports are fishing, swimming, canoeing, and other things. Haying is another good thing where one can jump in the hay,and have lots of fun by milking cows and feeding the animals. My father has a farm. We keep sheep, cows, two horses, fourteen pigs, ninety-eight hens. We have two hundred acres on our farm: we have lots of hay, oats, wheat, barley, clover, alfalfa, turnips, and four hundred bushels of potatoes. Alfalfa is a very interesting clover. Its roots are sometimes eight or nine feet long, and it is impossible to pull it up by the roots. It is very good feed for cows. DOUGLAS GORDON, 5th Year. THE WISH THAT CAME TRUE ss DEAR! O, dear! what shall I do?' came a voice outside a little cottage in Fairyland, and again came the same UO, dear!'l It was Buttercup, a little fairy, who was crying. She was sitting on a toadstool in the centre of the cottage with a butterfly on the floor beside her. HO, Buttercup, what are you crying about '? said the butterfly. NO, Butterfly, what shall I do ? I have lost my wand, and no fairy can go to the ball to-night without her wand. Why, Buttercup, where did you lose it ? UI don't knowf' said Buttercup, HI was out late last night, and must have lost it coming home in the dark, because it was very dark last night. Yes, maybe you did, said the butterfly, but you should have been more careful, however, I shall go and look for it. O, you dear,'l said Buttercup, I would be ever so glad if you found it. So the butterfly flew off. First he came to a little boy sitting in a little chair crying. f'What is the matter, little boy '?'l said the butterfly. I can not find any- thing to eat, and Ifm very hungryf' said the little boy, bursting into tears again. 'AI-Ierc is a silver coin, said the butterfly, and you can buy some bread with it. O, thank you! said the boy with a smile, what do you wish most ? HI wish that I could find fairy Buttercup's wand. At once the boy was changed into a beautiful fairy, You shall have your wish, she said, Ubecause you have been kind to the poorf' The butterfly was amazed, for he was looking straight at the fairy Queen. He bowed before her and said, MO, Queen of Fairyland, I thank you for helping me to find the wand of fairy Buttercup for she is my dearest friend. Can I do anything for you ?l' 'fNothing she replied, but just keep on being kind to the poor, and she waved her wand and told him to go and to keep on the straight road. He went along and soon he came to a little hut. He flew in through the window and was astonished to see a large box and on the cover he read, HLost fairy wands. He saw that the lid was open enough for him to fly in. He soon found the fairy's lost wand and was glad to see it was not damaged. He took it back to the fairy, and she was very glad and thanked him. And so the fairy did go to the ball. LENA MOREHEAD, age 11, Sixth Year. STARS Stars that are so high Up inthe deep blue sky! Stars that are so far away, Where do you hide yourselves by day? BETTY SKINNER, age 9. Fourth Year. THE HARP Once upon a time there was a Baron, who lived in a castle he had built in Germany. He was very fond of music, but he had no instru- ment to play upon. Every night he sat by his log fire listening to the wind, which howled around the castle walls. One night, as he was sitting, an idea came into his mind, he went up to the top of his castle, and stretched wire from turret to turret, and then came down and listened for some music, but there wasn't any wind outside to make any on the wires. He waited night after night, until one night a great wind rose up and made some lovely music on the wires, and so the Baron had some music for himself and he called the wires a harp. JEAN VALE, age 13. Sixth Year

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76 THE I-lxcrl SCH OOL MAGAZINE THE AUTOBIOGRAPIIY OF A QUARTER WAS made several years ago. My first owner, when walking across a bridge, care- lessly dropped me into the water. I was very frightened especially when I saw a queer thing, which I afterwards learned was a fish, coming towards me which, thinking that Iwas something to eat, swallowed me. After that everything was dark. I knew nothing more until I heard a woman's voice exclaiming, Oh, look what I found, a quarter in the fish! I was taken out and rubbed with a cloth until I shone brightly. Then I was put into a pocket where I remained for a short time. There was a proud gold watch in the pocket, and as I was wondering how to become acquainted with her, I was suddenly taken out of the pocket and given in exchange for something wrapped in brown paper, to a man who placed me in a large drawer among many other coins. A pretty ten-cent piece had just been intro- duced to me when, to my dismay, I was taken out of the drawer. This time I was given to a man who put me into his pocket, and there I stayed for a very long time. When I finally saw the light again, I found myself among many strange people who had yellow skin and slanting eyes and who talked a language I had never heard before. In a short time I grew accustomed to my surround- ings, and discovered I was in China. A little Chinese boy was celebrating his fifth birthday, so I was given to him. He put me into a small steel bank and though he has tried to get me out several times, he has never succeeded and I am still in the bank. LEONA EI DLOW, 7-A. THE DAFFODILS Right upon the window-sills Stand some lovely daffodils, The flowers are yellow, The leaves are green, They're the prettiest things I've ever seen. MARIAN FRANCIS, age 7. Second Year. A BIRD There was a little dicky-bird, Who flew a half I asked him why He flew so high, He gave a sigh, And flew right by. MAXINE SAMUELS, age 7. Second Year. a mile, Xl! if 6 - lvl xy. I A 11' in 71 JI If lr gr! 7 I ' i , , . WN ffl ff jf 'if We ff ft WW Vfffffffff V F 7 . W CAA! fifffif ff! I V ff K . . X ff W AfAyffWj1fffLf,'Is.V -lg f W K A CATERPILLAR OU have seen, I hope, a caterpillar which crawls over the tomato plants. One day you will see him crawling over the plants as usual, the next day you will not see him. It will seem as if the ground had swallowed him up. Strange to say that is exactly what has happened. When the time comes this caterpillar will be seen crawling around on the ground as if looking for something. He is really looking for a soft place to dig. Then he finds the soft part and then he begins to dig. First he pushes his head in, then his body, till bit by bit he disappears altogether. If you could see him underground when he first disappears you would see him wriggling around until he has made a kind of cave. He has then made his cocoon and gone to sleep. After a while he digs his way out again, a complete butterfly. He then crawls up on a plant and he waits for the breezes to help him to fly. T. WALSH, 5th Year.

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78 THE I-licn SCHOOL MAGAZINE CAMPING N THE summer we go to camp. It is a long way from the nearest village. It is across a large lake. Sometimes we go to the village for supplies and we camp on the shore coming home. At night we sit around the camp-fire and tell stories, sing and other things. In the morning we get up early and have breakfast and then we play games. Sometimes some of our parents come to see us and bring us candy and other things. We go swimming in the afternoon and explore streams and rivers. We have swimming races, boat races, and other kinds of races with other camps and it is lots of fun, There once was a'life guard that could not swim, So he threw a boy a piece of soap to wash himself in. L. HALL, 5th Year. f up -X Q, ,f ' N M i in Th hx 1 Bl is ls-:jswvmf X 'jf Eshnifhc upqwgms Vx. I offYcknm8. X-.C:A-5-f,..x ,, V 00 1 US-nhum' SUMMER DAYS Summer days are nearer coming g Busy bees will soon be humming, Flowers are donning their beautiful gowns, And others are wearing their golden crowns. Daises wearing whitest frills, Birdies singing near the rills. Buttercups glowing in yellow hoods, Blue-bells are tinkling down in the woods. PHYLLIS DICK, age 10. Fifth Year. A SUMMER ADVENTURE One day as two little girls were sitting in the hot sun, they decided to take some candy, and go for a walk in the country. When they had gone a little way they saw an open stable, and one of them suddenly began to scream, for six horses ran out and started to chase them. That wasn't all, for after they had got rid of the horses, their candy got sticky, and they decided to wash it in a brook near by. As soon as they were near the brook, some cows came down for a drink, and the little girls got frightened and ran up a hill. Then they were afraid to come down again, so they took off their shoes and stockings and crossed the brook. On the way one dropped her shoe and couldn't find it. When finally they got out, their mother's voice was heard, and their hearts leaped for joy, but one of them had to go home with one shoe off and one shoe on. LEONORE STONE, age 10. Fifth year. A HUSKY DOG HUSKY DOG is a very tough animal. It is said that he can stand a harder blow on the head than a wolf. A husky is not a house dog. He likes to be out in the open with a fence around him about twenty-five yards wide and fifty yards long and built in the woods about twenty yards. A husky dog should be fed one and a half pounds of horse meat once a day. A husky is one of the hardest dogs to train in a sleigh or anything else. A good house for a husky is a thick barrel where no rain can get in. Then place blocks of wood on each side to keep it from rolling. It should be put on a platform about two feet from the ground. Over the hole of the barrel where the dog enters. you should nail a potato-bag to keep the heat in and keep out the snow or rain. One should not tease a husky because it is a very short tempered dog. Once in a rage, it is very hard to stop him from fighting. ALAIN ALMON, 5th Year.