North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

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3a r ah THE CATS HAT I once saw a cat Who played with a hat The hat tumbled over And covered the cat. He scratched a hole And tried to get out. But he was too stout And couldn ' t get out. Along came the wind. As strong as could be, It blew the hat off him So he could be free. Oh! that little cat Was as scared as could be. So he ran in the yard And climbed up a tree. The Second Grade .- • ft 1 17

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ELMER THE DRAGON Elmer wasn ' t an ordinary dragon. Elmer breathed bullets instead of fire. Elmer never liked to hurt anybody. When Elmer saw a bur gler he never tried to kill him. Elmer always shot at legs and arms so he wouldn ' t kill them. Once Elmer killed a burgler and he felt very sad. He did not shoot anybody be- cause he feld so bad. In World War IX Elmer was asked to fight in the war because he would never run out of bullets. America was against Russia in the war. After Elmer got rid of the front lines he needed something to eat. Elmer ate so much that the men had hardly anything to eat, so they couldn ' t fight. Elmer went back and bombed the second line. When Elmer got to the third line he started wrecking it. The Russian men got smart and shot all their am- munition at the dragon and killed it. The men got food and beat the Russians. All the men were sad that Elmer died. They made a monument for him and had a day called Elmer Day. Ned Jessen THE MONSTER OF WHAUKEY-EEKA The monster of Whaukey-Eeka was a very nice monster, and his name was Herman Berban. He was a big but lonely monster, because when he went around trying to make friends with people, they ran away. So all day he sat on the shores of Whaukey- Eeka moaning, Oh why don ' t people like me? One day Herman smelled smoke. (He had a very good sense of smell.) He got up and ran to where the smoke was coming from, and when he got there he saw a big fire. The fire was heading for a town, and Herman knew at once that if the fire reached it, the town would burn down. So he took a big breath and blew out the fire with a mighty blow. Then all the people came to Herman cheering. And from then on Herman was a happy monster. Harold Joseph 16

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THE BIRD THAT COULD READ One nice day we opened a window at school. A bird flew into our room. He sat and look- ed at us as if to say Will some one share a book with me? Then he flew over to my book. He just sat there as though he was reading. After we came back to our seats, he flew a- round the room stopping at every desk to look at that per- son ' s work. He stayed with us the whole day. Then when we left he flew right out the win- dow again. Linda Salisbury TYRANNOSAURUS REX The Tyrannosaurus Rex was the greatest of all flesh-eating dinosaurs. The Tyrannosaurus Rex was about twenty feet high and fifty feet long. It had small arms with very sharp claws. When a Tyrannosaurus Rex killed another dino- saur, he would stand still for about five minutes. Then it ate the other dinosaur. Then it went to sleep for about a week to let the food digest. When it woke up, it went out to kill again. The Tyrannosaurus ' head was about four feet long. His teeth were six inches long. The Tyrannosaurus Rex died out because mountains started forming which dried up the swamps where the plant eating dinosaurs ate. The plants died and new ones grew. So all the plant eaters which the Tyrannosaurus Rex de- pended on for food died out, so the Tyranno- saurus Rex all died out. The Tyrannosaurus Rex lived 98,000,000 vears ago. Bill Corrington 18