Peterborough Collegiate and Vocational School - Echoes Yearbook (Peterborough, Ontario Canada)

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'--1:-wsu, Y-11, 5' ir 3 4 THETECM i 1 11 'L Cabet fllnspection 7.942 'Tis the day of cadet inspection, And many are gathered around To see our cadets do manoeuvres On our own and the Armouries, ground. hIarch past ! cries our valiant young Major, And march past we do with a will, Then, a voice from the throng of spectators, They're all out of step but my Billnl Here comes our wonderful bugle band, With its bass drum which goes Boom! Boon1 l Its side-drums all a-rattle, And its bugles-never in tune. WVl1o signals from yonder Biemorial? And Wl1O from the church steps replies? 'Tis our Signalling Corps of stout fellows Who are trying to win the cheque prize. Whatfs this! A woman has fainted! QFor the day is both humid and WVZ1l'Ill.J The Ambulance Corps to tl1e rescue! Tl1ey'll revive her as if by a charm. Thus passes our schoolls cadet Held-day, Till a year brings it round once again, And l1ere's to our skilful instructors, Our school, oflicers, and our men. Hugh Davidson.. Ebe Growing of Tvea ICTURE yourself gazing upon the Tea garrlfns in the Himalayas. As you look upon the terraces, you see coolies gathering the tea leaves. Let us go closer to inquire of the coolie how the Tea is cultivated and manufactured. The thick forests on the sides of the mountains are cleared, the terraces erected and the drainage system put in. Now they are ready to plant the young tea plants or the tea seeds. VVithin three or four years the young plants can be lightly plucked. Great care has to be taken for several years. The greatest age a tea plant can be, and yet give good tea, is not known, but there are plants sixty years of age in the mountains. 1 Plucking is perhaps the most important part of the business andeit requires very careful teaching on the part of the owner. If the tea has to be of very good quality, only the bud and the top two leaves of each shoot are picked, though sometimes five leaves down from the shoot are taken. The coolies become expert at' the K job and can Hll the basket, which is hung by ropes to their forehead, very quickly. ' When the basket is full it is taken to the factory. i Here the tea is weighed and sent on to the top fioor of the building where it goes through the first process. The leaves are spread out on wire trays and allowed -4,9-

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THEI 5394335 W Tllbantaste Here am I, Placed in a little inland town, To me, the smallest place on earth, For I long to get free from gray fields and brown, And play in the roaring surf. Truly I know How dearly I should love to yield To temptation, and run away to the seag But in this inland town I'm sealed, I never can play in the surf, and be free! The seashores! Oh! to sit at the window-sill Of a snug, little cottage that faces the sea! A cottage-built on the brow of a hill, Ivhere sea-winds blow, both strong and free! And the surf, I love the surf, so foamy and white: The waves-they seem to be softly lined Vlfith this foam, so buoyant,-so light- And tossed about by a keen sea-wind. But alas! alas! These pleasures never shall be mine: For destiny has written down Bly future,-in a single line- g I'hy duty lies in an inland town. By Illargaret Goodley, Commercial IIa. 1 my 711705 I have a dog, his name is Jeeves, 3 I-Ie's always trying hard to please, Of this occupation he never seems tired, To any other he's never aspirefl. YVhen he is bad he raises my wrath. But he'd do anything to get out of a bath: It seems that he tries my anger to raise, But he'fl do anything to win some praise. I-le's been with me for six long years, And I've grown accustomed to all his flairsg VVith all his faults he's still my dog,- In my wheel of life he's become a cog. Hes big, he's fat, he eats like a horse, I really think some .day I'll have to use force: And now that my little poem I've written. I will say this-he has never bitten. A llcm P11 rl.- -41-

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3 , i. ' 1. -V x 1. THE BCH - 5.3 to dry. This is called withering. After it has assumed a certain degree of softness and flaccidity it is sent to the rolling machine. In this machine the cells are broken up, inducing fermentation. The leaves are then spread out on a wooden framework and are then allowed to ferment until they turn a light brown. The fermented leaves are then Bred. Placed on Wire trays, they are pushed into a heater of two hundred degrees Fahrenheit. This makes them dry and brittle. The Tea is now manufactured and all that remains is the sifting and Hnal firing. The leaves are put through dif- ferent sizes of sieves which are worked with an oscillating movement. The finer the pieces the better the quality of the Tea. The tea is packed in lead or aluminum lined chests. As the tea falls from a sheet into the boxes the boxes are oscillated. This makes the tea settle and allows the box to be Hlled to its utmost capacity. After the top sheet of lead is soldered on, the lid nailed over the top and the name stamped on the side, the tea is ready for its world- wide market. Rae Borland, Form Ia, Industrial Arts All 'Exiles Tjlrayer V Written, on the occasion of the expulsion of many Saarlanders, to R. Jackson's music of the hymn, Breathe On Me, Breath of God. I do not own my will, For God has all my heartg Tho' from uncivil land I flee From Him I shall never part. Altho' I leave this land, Ne'er to return again, May God guide all my steps to Him As now I guide my pen. And may those left behind Seek Him, in trouble, too: They will know Friendship in their Lord And always find Him true! 'Tis all I ask, Dear Lord, Keep me from sin and shame, Keep my soul clean, and let me be A Christian in Your Name. Christians, alike, I pray, 'When exiled, turn to light-- To God, whose tender love and care Shall brighten your darkest night. Amana Edna Borland, IIA Academic. .43-