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

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Page Twenty-tlzree VOX FL UMINIS Bruce: And as a kinsman I receive you. Qsound of trumpetsj Come, we must haste to the Council tent. Scene 2.-Council Tent. QBruce surrounded by his baironsj Lord Rutlweu: Edward has forced a rapid march through the low- lands and is now within a few hours' march of Stirling. Bruce: Let him come, my brave barons, and he shall find that Ban- nockburn shall page with Cambus-Kenneth! All our plans have 'been care- fully made to reserve our strength and Drummond's pits and pikes I have no doubt will give good account of the strategy employed. Lords, with VVallace's sacred corpse in our midst we cannot fail. I-Ie who deserts it murders Williani Wallace anew! To your posts my brave barons. Scene 3.-Battlefield in distance. Cl-inters Monteitlrj Mont-eitlz C greatly agitatedj : I must haste quickly. This battle is all but lost and as Wallace's betrayer I can hope for no quarter. Q1-Enters Lord B otlzwell with drawn .vzvordj Lord Botlzwell: Friend of the most damned treason, vengeance is come! CFights Monteith and kills himj So perish the murderers of VVil- liam Wallace. Clinters Lord Dougldsj Douglas: Quick, Bothwell, the Southerons are in full retreat and we must cut them off ere they reach the border. '- u 4 ' y BASKETBALL

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Twenty-two We must not stop. said hero Lean, Or else you will be drowned in cream, You must not weaken, there is a way, And we will find it ere close of day. And so frog Lean pursuaded Slim, But all the air was out of him. And to the bottom with a plunk, The froggy Slim, caved in and sunk. But Mr. Lean continued on, Until at last the cream was gone, And there instead of creamy splutter, He sat upon a cake of butter. -Elspeth Wilson, Grade IX. BANNOCKBURN ' CHARACTERS Robert the Bruce-King of Scotland. Edward I .-King of England. Gilbert Hambledon-Earl of Montgomery. Lord M onteitlz-Betrayer of VVil1iam Wallace. Lord Rutlwen. Lord Botlzwell. Lady Helen-Wife of William Wallace. Lady Isabella-Sister of Helen and betrothed of Robert the Bruce. ACT I. Scene l.-Bruce's Tent. Time-Night before the Battle. QBrure is seated musing.j Bruce: Tomorrow Scotland shall be free or I will not rest with those who have died for her freedom. The noblest, brave Wallace might have been here to share the glory but for that base and periidious Monteith who betrayed him. Who goes there ?', QA slight commotion outside the tent. A soldier enters accompanied by a knight.j Bruce: What! Montgomery? VVhat brings you here 3 Montgomery Qdropping on his kneej : Receive a subject as well as a friend, victorious prince! I have forsworn the vassalage of the Planta- genets and thus, without title or land, with only a faithful heart, Gilbert Hambledon comes to vow himself yours and Scotland's forever. Bruce Craising him from the groundj : Welcome, my faithful Mont- gomeryf' The Earl : Montgomery no more. I have thrown theninsignia of my earldom at the feet of the unjust Edward, and yet I come not without a treasure, for the sacred corpse of William Wallace is now in my bark and I am now at your feet, brave and just king, no longer Montgomery but a true Scot in heart and loyalty. '

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VOX FLUMINIS Page Twenty-four T ACT 11. Tinie-One day later. Chapel of Cambus-Kenneth. fEntei' the venerable Abbot of lnchajfray, the Bishop of Dnnkeld, and others carrying the bier of W allacej fEnter Helen, very frail, and assisted by Isa-bella.Q . Isabella: Have courage, dear sister. Helen Cln a whispered voicej : I fear nought. My spirit will soon be with my dear Wallace. The Bishop Caside to the Abbotj : 'Tis a strange ceremony, my friend, that we must enact. Have you endeavoured to dissuade the Lady Helen ? The Abbot: Nay, brother, for while she may seem distraught to you, she has a very clear and fixed conviction that the Bruce and her sister Isabella must be married over the bier of the noble Wallace, and methinks it ill to cross Heaven's purpose. A The Bishop Churriedly crossing himselfj : Amen, Amen. CEnters Bruce in his kingly robes, of sad but stately inien. Steps forward, takes Helen's hand, kneels and kisses it.j Bruce: Fair Helen, would that Wallace were here this day to see the consummation of his efforts. Helen: Brave and noble Bruce, he doth see them. fThe wedding ceremony begins and ends.j Helen Cholding her trembling hands over the royal pairj: Be you blest in all things as Wlallace would have blest you l QBrnce and Isabella are visibly ninch affeetedj The Abbot: Claying his hand upon the iron box at the foot of Wallace's bierj : Before the sacred remains of the once champion of Scotland, and in the presence oi his royal successor, let this mysterious coffer of St. Fillian's be opened, to reward the deliverer of Scotland according to its intent. fBrnee unclasps the lork and discovers the regalia of Seotlandj Bruce C greatly agitatedj : Thus did this truest of human beings pro- tect my rights even while the people whom he had saved, knelt to him to wear them all. The Bishop of Dnnkeld C taking the diadem from its coffer and setting it upon Bruce's heady : And thus Wlallace crowns thee I -Mary Rait, Grade IX. T0 A MOUSE There was a mouse lived on a hill, And no one knows if he lives there still. He had a family of large and small Some could walk and some but crawl. His wife, a large and portly mouse, Could do nought else but keep the house.