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

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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.

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VOX FL U M I N I S Page Tliirty-two just then the door opened and a maid placed the dress in the cupboard, right beside the hat. Then the hat said to the dress, My dear dress, it has been very lonely here without you, I have no friends here at all. The dress replied, I have been lonely too. I have no other friends. The only other dresses were of a new style. They thought themselves very wonderful and teased me all the time, but we will be happy together. I am sure we will. After the dress and the hat had been in the cupboard for a few weeks they were very surprised to see a girl of about thirteen open the door. They were carried to the room downstairs. The next day the girl put them on- she was going to a masquerade party. She won first prize for the best costume. The dress and hat were very pleased. They were never put back in the cupboard again. Instead they were kept in a glass case in a museum because they were so old. Both were very happy together. -Agnes Richardson, Grade V. HALLOWE 'EN NIGHT Hallowe'en is the night XV hen ghosts and goblins come, They all have awful faces, And all are decked in white. I don't know where they come from, Nor why they choose this night, But they go to all windows And lock and seal them tight. Then just at the hour of midnight, They all begin to dance, They have the grandest time As round the moon they prance. Then at the stroke of morning, They all vanish from sight, Back to the land they came from, Till next Hallowe'en night. -Edith Haig, Grade VIII. THE OLD TALL HAT I Mr. Klein had been for a walk one morning and on his return he saw his neighbor, Mr. Jones, with a new tall hat. That was too much for him. He was going to have a new hat too, so he thought he would tell his wife about it when he got home.