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

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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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nn Y I :-TB' - --ZW -- E L- THE Etta ES .F J' 11 - 'L 'lf 1, grandfather, with gaiety of the hlarchioness and the boisterousness of Dick Swiveller, while the hideous Quilp supplies the malevolence. His masterpiece David Copper- field is largely a biography of the auth0r's life, with the inimitable iNIr. ltlicawber as Dickens' own father. A Tale of Two Citiesf' a story of the French Revolution, is also the scene of one of the most heroic deeds of fidelity and self-sacrifice known to fiction. lNIartin Chuzzlewitu describes Dickens' visit to America and makes a marked contrast between the cosy inns of England and the coarse rude inns of America. Dickens always had the greatest of sympathy for those who suffered at the hands of the mean, cruel. and insincere people: and he portrayed them in such a way that no one wants to be considered as resembling creatures like Pecksniff, Uriah Heep, Bill Sikes, Scrooge, Fagin and others. Here is one of the greatest literary tributes ever paid to the memory of the immortal author, Charles Dickens has not only pleased us, he has softened the hearts of a whole generation. He made charity fashionable. He wakened pity in the hearts of some sixty millions of people. He made a whole generation keep Christmas with acts of helpfulness to the poor. And every barefooted boy and girl in England and America to-day fares a little better. gets fewer cuHs and more pudding, because Charles Dickens wrote. Dickens is without exception the greatest character writer who ever lived. He was an uncanny genius in his ability to choose names for his characters, as those who read his novels have doubtless concluded. ' It is more than three score years and ten since the great author passed away, but his fame is increasing steadily. Those who read and enjoy Dickens' works are :in ever-increasing host in the English-speaking world. Bill Davidson, IB Academic. . Common Ebings The moonlight is a gentle thing, Vfhich through the windows gleams. lfpon the snowy pillow where The happy infant dreams. The sunlight is a glorious thing That comes alike to all, It lightens up the peasant's hut. ,Xnd the 11oble's painted hall. A robin on a pear-t.ree sings, Beside a cottage door, But when the winter comes along. There it will sing no more. A brook goes babbling by the door, With waters cool and sweet. The village children throng the shore, To wade with dainty feet. Dorothy Ferguson. QA. -4o- r

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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-