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

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Twelve FORECASTS FOR 1932 Tomorrow is another day, I sincerely hope that wheat will pay, If it rusts Russia busts . 7 As any business man will say. In Manchuria things are rotten. In the South, the price of cotton Is so low That we never know VVhen its going to reach the bottom. By and by in the year ,32, The world will cease from being blue. Men will sow, Crops will grow, ' The universe will start anew. Mary VValston, Grade XI FAR AWAY HE FLEW I had a little birdie He was a pretty blue, Une day he took a notion And far away he flew. Away over the prairie VVhere it was very airy, Away over the sea Away over the lea. Then my little birdie Did some berries pick, And if I have to be exact He got a little sick. Away up in the tree-tops My pretty bird I see I call him very sweetly And he then flies back to me And now my little birdie Is quite content with me, I do not put him in a cage For there he should not be -Dossie MacLean Grade VII

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Page Eleven VOX FLUMINIS ....-.............................................................. ......... ............................................ .... ...................... ...... .......... ........... ......... plane. Immediately I think that I am gliding through the air. I go so high, that it seems as if I could put out my hand and pick up a star. And as the shadows change, my thoughts change. When you are sitting silently in the lirelight you think of things, which you can never think of in the daytime, because the light seems so bright and the noises so loud. that they confuse the mind. But sitting quietly in the firelight, you can dream dreams and think of all the things, which have been, and which are going to be. -Mary McLean, Grade VIII. STUDY HOUR THOUGHTS I know the bell will ring, but When? The noisy scratch of someone's pen. Somebody's' crushing paper again 5 See that Hy on the Window pane? Those boards should be washed tonight, Doesn't the sun seem awfully bright, Everyone's studious this afternoon, I hope the bell is going soon. In a stocking I spy a hole. I see some hands as black as coal, How these minutes do drag along. The bell is going, Oh cheers, it's gone! -Margaret Aldous, Grade VIII. MARIE FAIT DES EMPLETTES Samedi matin Marie et sa mere sont allees faire des emplettes a La Samaritaine. Elles entrent au rez-de-chaussee et elles prennent l' ascenseur jusqu' au deuxieme etage ou Marie achete une robe, un chapeau et des souliers. Elle essaie beaucoup de robes, des noires, des vertes, des rouges. des bleues et des jaunesg les unes sont de soie et les autres sont de laine de crepe. Elle se decide at prendre une robe jaune et b-rune. C'est une tres, tres jolie robe et Marie et sa mere aiment la robe beaucoup.. ' Apres que la vendeuse apporte la robe elles vont au rayon de chapeaux, et ici Marie achete un chapeau brun avec une petite plume jaune qui est aussi tres jolie. Ensuite Marie et sa mere vont au rayon de souliers et Marie achete de jolis souliers bruns. La mere de Marie achete aussi des articles pour elle et elles vont toutes deux a la maison contentes de leurs emplettes, Marie surtout. -Marnie Austin, Grade IX.

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Page Thirteen VO FL UMINIS L 'IRLANDE ,Vaimerais aller en Irlande. Les gens de ce pays sont les plus interes- sants du monde. Ils sont aimables et leurs maisons sont ouvertes at tout le monde. La plus belle vue en Irlande est sur la route par les collines a Glenda- lough. Entre les collines on trouve les jolis petits lacs et dans le soir les collines deviennent bleues. Apres avoir passe plusieurs semaines ici, je reviendrais fi Dublin ou je passerais le reste de mes Vacances. lci je visiterais les jardins zoologiques, il est tres amusant de voir les animaux, et comme vous le savez Dublin est tres connu pour ses lions. Le zoo', ii Dublin s'est ouvert en 1831. Avant de partir d'Irlande j'irais a Cork. C'est ici ou on entend les belles cloches de Shandon et j'embrasserais la pierre de Blarney. Apres avoir fait ce dernier, je serais toute contente de retourner a Vlfinnipeg. --Shelagh Cooney, Grade XI. A MISTY DAY The earth is covered over VV ith a blanket of silvery greyg The ships at sea look ghostlike. For a mist has come up from t e bay. h The mist lies over the mountains, And lies there all the day g The Wood is just a dark shadow, For a mist has come up from the bay. The air is heavy with moisture VVhich dews the grass and the hayg And everythingfs quiet and peaceful, For a mist has come up from the bay. -Sally Coyne, Grade XI. i