Riverbend School for Girls - Vox Fluminis Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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Page Twenty-nine VOX FL UMINIS History is silly, With all its many facts. I stuff them all in so tight Until my brain just cracks! Hygiene may be useful, But it is so dry. Come! Let's go to fairyland, just you and I. The teachers are so very kind, I really hate to go, But I'd rather do without them, Than have to study so. I --Marion Haig, Grade VI. THE WIND I am the wind, So great and strong, I whistle and blow The whole day long. I make the branches Of great trees sway, While all the children Look up and say, Oh, hear the wind, So great and strong, He whistles and blows The whole day long. -Lydia Klein, Grade V. MY FLOWER GARDEN I have a pretty garden, With flowers pink and fair, Roses blooming in the sun, And bird notes everywhere. VV here bees may gather honey, And buzz the whole day through, VVho would not want to live like me? There are but very few. -jane Ellis, Grade V.

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Page Thirty-one VOX FL UMINIS CHRISTMAS POEM Let us shout for Christmas Day, As it comes along its way, With the holly and the snow And with the mistletoe. At last, at last it is Christmas eve . And in the morning our gifts we receive, We'll hang up our stockings beside the fire And to bed we all will retire. --Jane Ellis, Grade V. THE OLD SHOES In the old cupboard upstairs sat the old brown shoes and the party shoes. Oh l sobbed the old brown shoes, I wish we were going to a party. You're not nice enough to go, said the stuck-up party shoe. Would you like to tell us what it is like P asked the left brown shoe. Yes, said they, but got taken away when the door opened and a voice said, Here they aref' and two little hands grabbed the party shoes. When the brown shoes woke up from a sad sleep the party shoes had come back. A Well, did you have a good time ? asked the brown shoes. Cf course, replied the party shoes saucily. It was dark in the cupboard and they could not see the party shoes very well so they went to sleep. Next' morning the brown shoes asked the party shoes what happened at the party. However, the door opened and again the same little hands came in and grabbed, not the party shoes, but the little brown shoes, and she said, Here they are. The little brown shoes only had time to stick out their brown tongues at the party shoes and say, Well, anyhow, you have not been to the seaside. When the door closed the party shoes stood there crying. They were never stuck up again. -Margaret Powell, Grade VI. THE OLD HAT AND DRESS There was once a hat in a cup-board in the attic, it was an old- fashioned hat and used to be very pretty, but it got faded and torn. It used to be bright blue with pink roses on it, but now they were almost white. There was a dress to match it. The dress was still being used by the lady who owned it. One day the hat said to itself, I wish I had someone to talk to, it is so very lonely here.