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

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Page Nine VOX FLUMINIS That's Miss Foster, did we bet, To the window we must get, Down the Hre-escape to safety we can Hee ! To the window did we dash Opened up the treacherous sash While the speeding foot-steps neared us mercilessly. . Out the window Peggy leaped While the gods their pleasure reaped As Carla caught her foot in some contraption. There she stuck astride the sill! ' Her position boded ill. For both, howe'e1', excitement held attraction. Miss Foster, it was she, Op'ed the door, our plight to see, Stopping dead and crying out in agitation, To the Window did she run, And clutched the unfortunate one By the leg, While Peggy watched in desperation. Then she too, began to pull Till Carla's shouts were plentiful. Crying loud and long for sympathy from Peg: But her cries were all unheeded, In the distance they receded. And they still pull it, as we are pulling your leg! -Peggy Carlisle and Carla Lehmann, Grade X. A SICK C!HILD'S FANCY Come, pretty marbles, let us play That you are fairies on a bright summer day, Grouped here and there on my soft, white spread. Bringing a make-believe scene to my bed. Some will come in yellow f rocks, some will come in blues, Some will come in pink, and other lovely hues. ... .....-. . Look! there is a red one, he shall be king, And sit in the midst of the fairy ring, And by his side, a queen shall reign, Dressed in white, with a long, soft, train. And round them shall gather one by one, The fairies who sing and dance in the sun. -Katherine Hall, Grade VIII.

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VOX FLUIUINIS Page Eight ............... ........ ...................-..... ............ .... ......... .... ..... ......... ...... ..................... ..... .......... .... ....................................-..-...U to a big oak tree. He climbed the tree and finding for himself a shady spot, he settled down for a nice comfortable sleep. He did not, however, sleep long because on opening one eye, he spied a brown bear Can ugly brown bear, Black thought,j playing in his dust mound! The very idea, Black sputtered-it was-it was-preposterous. 'Black got up and slyly crept down the tree. I-Ile walked over to where the brown bear was still rolling around, and then he roared at the top of his voice, Get up, he seemed to say, and iight like a man and see whom this mound belongs to. The brown bear got up Qgoodness! he was bigj and together they fought, one for the joy of it, and the other because he wanted the mound. Black wanting the mound, fought hard-and won. Feeling all hot and flurried he walked back to the oak tree and climbed upg for the first time he noticed the day was hot, almost unbearable. Black lay downg ah, that was much better. What was better than a hot, sunshiny day, a nice shady spot and lots of time for a comfortable, snoozy sleep? - -Eleanor Tucker, Grade IX. SONG OF THE R.0AD It was a bright and smiling day, As I tramped upon my way, Sunbeams dancing here and there, Sweet birds singing everywhere, Beetles dancing in the sun, Butterflies are having fun. The road is long and dusty white Mr. Sun is glowing bright, Sky above is deepest blue I love this kind of day don't you? -Julia Dale, Grade V. THE ESCAPADE VVe were feeling slightly frisky And sought for something risky To amuse us, for a portion of our dayg We thereupon bethought us U Cf a place to which they taught us Our wayward feet must never find a way. Off we started to the third Hoor, Our goal was the infirmary door, X Alas! the creaking stairway spelled our doom! Someone heard us running. In turn, we heard them coming Up the stairway toward the fatal room!

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Ten BE YOURSELF Is it always wise? If you are the shrinking violet type, is it best to be yourself and soon find yourself on the outside. looking in on all the fun? Gr should you brace yourself up and talk and dance like other normal people and forget the part of you which says, There is a very interesting book on the table over there. I think I'll just go off in a corner and read for a whilef, I Plenty of people who have a tendency to be shy have put on a con- ceited air which is rather pathetic, a ridiculous giggle is perhaps worse. Being yourself is all very well but what about the people who never would be seen at all if such advice were taken? Gn the other hand, is there anything worse than a tomboy trying to be dignified? Did you ever see anything funnier than a girl who has turned down a basket ball game to go to a tea given by a dear friend of mother's who will be offended if she doesn't appear? She will probably have a very uncomfortable look on her face and one idea in her headf-to get out. First she will spill her tea, then drop a sandwich, jump when she is spoken to, and make altogether the wrong reply when answering. In this case if only the unfortunate individual would be herself. As the girl who is neither a violet nor a tomboy usually has the sense to be herself with success there are no points to argue. This is the decision I have made in such casesg the shy must buck up and be sociable and have some fun occasionally, the extreme opposite must quieten down a little, but not too much. Greater psychologists than I have said be natural at all cost, but I maintain that there are exceptions to every rule. -Janet Turnbull, Grade IX. HOLIDAYS Holidays! Hfolidays! they have begun! Gut in the garden to play in the sun. Down by the lake and the favorite holesg Out with the guns to shoot squirrels and moles. Away in the forests, with fiowers and trees, Down in the gulleys with the birds and the bees, Down by the rocks and the babbling brooks, Under the oaks. in our private nooks. Holidays! Holidays! they have begun! Out in the garden to play in the sun. -Shirley Johnston, Grade VII. FIRELIGHT In the cottage, when the lamps are all turned out, I watch the Wall and see the figures that the firelight makes. There are shapes and forms, which remind me of the wonderful times I have had and the glorious times, which are to come. As I sit by the firelight, I See a shadow the shape of an aero-