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

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Ghz 'Echoes 35 ever, some of the others took pity on Tana. Shame on you, they cried, Has Tana ever harmed you? Let us go and see the end of the matter. Accordingly they tramped wearily up the hillside to the great house on the top again. But they were all too late. They found Iyan Ippalov already dead, curled up in a wretched heap by the side of his great roaring fireplace. He had frozen to death. RONALD Dick, IIIa Acad. THE ICE C ARNIVAL Come lads with your lasses from near and afar Come walking. come riding in sleigh or in car. To where each one's a friend. yes each one's a pal, You will all be 1'ight welcome at our carnival. The gay coloured lights turning night into day. Wlill banish all worries And twinkle in glee. if For this is the night of our great carnival. in laughter and play, we do slip and fall, A duchess. a tramp. a prince or a clown. An Indian chief, or a bride in her gown, They all will be there just to answer the call. ' So join in the fun of our ice ca1'niyal. S0 dig up your costume and I'll get mine, There'll be plenty of sport. and a jolly good time, ' - 'oi-we i you' a ways rea Youll nexei f 5 t t. . ll l 1 c ill ie un ia, you lac a' our .mwn ca 'niya. f tl t l l l t tr 1 l . ADELE Aausraoyo. III Com. ,i . - PAT AND MIKE SECOND PRIZE T was June and the air and water were still a little cold from the retreating snow when Bob and I came across the three-mile portage on to a tiny lost lake. As I lifted the canoe from my shoulders. I noted the clean shine of an unfolding leaf bud, a pale mauve patch of hepa- ticas, the vivid greens and reds of new moss. I had seen many broken dams. sagging lodges and weathered toothmarks. but no sign of beavers having liycd there recent- ly. As Bob made camp. I got into the canoe and glided out on the pond. I saw a beaver's home. The lodge was at the foot-the usual heap of black mud and sticks surrounded by muskeg and water. I placed my traps in the plunge-hole and concealed them on the narrow trails be- tween the muskegs. I saw a young mother lying on her bed of dried leayes and grass. fecbly nursing kittens. the father sitting up at the mouth of thc tunnel cleaning his fur with his long prehcnsile fingers. In the pale dawn I visited my traps. The male was caught by his leg. I killed him with a stick, but some distance away saw the mother, drowned. VVhile gather- ing up the traps and the limp bodies. I heard a thin. plaintiye chorus. I went up ti.. the mound of dirt and twigs and saw four small beavers. Two of these I put in my hat and brought back to Bob. He took them in his hands. their small bodies covered with red fuzzy hair. Bob got the little beavers to suck a dilution of canned milk through a cloth nipple stuck in a bottle. IVe decided to entrain for East- ern Quebec where were small lakes and streams that would delight a beaver's heart. VVe spent the night of our arrival there in the bush. In the morning, the CContinued on page 38l

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3+ IVAN IPPALOV tContinued from page 311 themselves. VVe must go and see Ivan Ippalov. they decided. He will. at least. not let us freeze or starve to deathf, The villagers grimly climbed up to Ivan's great l1ouse. They knocked. and when a servant answered they demanded to see Ivan. Ivan came. Then the peasants un- folded the piteous tale. They were starv- ing. they were freezing. They showed him their half-frozen hands and feet. Xvould he help them? Of course he had plenty. was he not to have given a banquet? But Ivan shut the door angrily. How can I help you? he roared at them. How am I to keep warm and fed? If I give you my fuel. am I to freeze? Am I to starve that you may eat? Go away. fools. Freeze or starve. whichever you prefer. The peasants turned bitterly away. He has plenty. said one, Let us go back into the night. said another. it is not so black as he. 111. During that night strange things hap- pened in the village. Like every Russian village. Ivan Ippalov's had its prophetessg old, ugly, shrivelled. So dreadful was the appearance of the one in this particular village. that the villagers called her Charodaika, the Wiitch. Dreadful in- deed she was. and all the villagers were terrified of her. despite the fact that she never harmed them. That night the in- habitants were alarmed to see this crea- ture abroad in the village streets. That is no good Omen. cried they. disaster is upon usb' But the old woman quieted their fears, Fear not. she told them. I am your friend. Ivan Ippalov is the one whom I wish to see: the man who refuses to keep his brothers from starving and freezing to deathlw One of the villagers laughed grimly. This must be good. he said. Charodaika visits Ivan Ippalov. Satan cannot long adord to be absent from such a meeting. The woman kept her word. She climb- ed the hill and rapped on Ivan's door. Ivan rose from his richly laden supper table to answer it. VVell. he asked curtly when he saw who it was. YYl1at? Trbc 'Echoes Ivan Ippalov, art thou not?', Yes The man who turned his brothers from the door, although their hands were frozen. and although they were starving. Enough! Yes, although he had enough to warm and feed them all. Ivell. Ivan Ippalov. I have a message for thy com- fort. YVell.'l retorted Ivan. Do you want to keep me here freezing on the steps? Ivan, thou shalt nevermore be warm. The creature backed away and disap- peared. For a moment Ivan was stupe- lied: then he angrily followed her. But it was a useless quest. She soon eluded him in the blinding snow which had be- gtm to fall again. Ivan became cold. and blindly dashed back into the house. Once inside he was a changed man. Terror stared in his bulging eyes. I'm cold. he cried, I feel no heat! Could it be true! Terror-stricken he dashed to the open fireplace to warm himself. Still there was no heat. Still he was shiver- ing. both with fright and cold. With a blind rage he increased the fire. The ftames roared and crackled dangerously. sending off a blinding heat. But Ivan Ippalov was still cold. IV. For three days and nights Ivan lived through a hideous agony of terror and cold. He could not get warm. He crawled into bed: but the sheets were as iciclesg he huddled by the fire. cursing and rav- ing at the roaring, twisting flames: he tried everything. but to no availg still he was gripped in a relentless chill which numbed l1is body and stupefied his mind. On the fourth day he went hopelessly mad. Three times a knock came to the door, and three times the form of Charo- daika asked him: Are you warm, Ivan, are you warm? Late that fourth night the wretched villagers were alarmed to see poor Tana running down the snow-covered hillside. They went to meet her, for they knew she was still their friend. Oh, help me, she cried. He is mad. It's terrible. He will kill my boys. But many of the peasants said slowly: Ivan's troubles are no longer ours. It is not our affair. We shall soon be mad ourselves. How-

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