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

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VOX FL UMINIS Page Twenty-four ' A STREAM Under the deep, blue sky A stream runs bright and clear. For every passer by, , It has a word of cheer. Merrily it rolls along In the evening glowg Listen to its lovely song When past the stream you go. --.Ioan Sanderson, Grade V. THE STREAM The stream was rushing down the rocks. The laughing, dancing stream. Until into the sea he dropped, Then all the laughing, dancing stopped. -Margaret VVinstanley, Grade IV. SPARROW Once when I came home from school, there was a sparrow in the house. It Hew all around. It sat on my chair and looked at my soup. VVe shut all the doors except the front one, but we could not get him out. He Hew against the window. We thought he was hurt but he was able to Hy outside. -Joan Francis, Grade III. THE MAKING OF A SNOW FORT . One day Ralph and I were making a tunnel. At the end of it there was going to be a little cave in a big pile of snow. It was dug out and I was inside it. I wanted to make it wider, so I just gave it a great big push with my foot. All of a sudden I felt a lot of snow. It was very heavy and I was nearly smothered. I called to Ralph to get the snow off my head but he dug in the wrong place. I gave one big turn and scrambled out, all over snow. -Margaret Jean Daly, Grade IV.

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Page Twenty-three VOX FL UMINIS .................-.................................---.......... .... ... ..... . ........ .-............. ............. ...--.. .......... .... ....... . . ...-. ...... . .... .-. .... ...... . ..........- A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE CUP OF BEANS AND MICROSCOPE BOX Beans- At last p-eople are too occupied to bother with me and I'll have a bit of a rest. Box- You do seem relieved but what exactly do you mean P Beans- I mean that now that Grade X. is writing exams and the teachers busy too, there is no one to finger and play with me. I don't know how many times I've been upset by the Grade Xfsg once all over the floor, and another time I was used as sort of shot for the nuisances to amuse themselves with. And other times when the teachers are teaching this class, they stand by our old friend the window and play with me, sometimes even throwing some of my children into the basket. Box- Chl I say! that isn't so good is it? Well it'll be quite a little time before those pests will be touching either of us. But I'm so hurt because I haven? been touched for ages, Iim getting sick and tired of sitting here day in and day out. Once or twice the teacher has taken my inside out fthe microscopej and been trying to use it but somehow it wasn't good enough for them to see what they wished, so they would go over to the laboratory and use that classy snob, Mr. New Microscopef' Beans- Oh well, it's our turn now, it's a treat to see these girls slaving away and hear the scratch, scratch of the pens and see their deep concen- tration. We've had our day of' work, now it is theirs. Box- Quite right, we'll enjoy it while we can, you never can tell whether we'll be here to see another time of examinationsf' -Betty Mackay. Grade X. THE SAD T'ULIP Once upon a time there was a beautiful garden. In this garden 'there were hollyhocks, snapdragons, pansies, and many other flowers, besides some tulips. Now one little tulip was very sad. It was because he was the smallest, and all the rest laughed at him. When it grew cold and winter came, the sad tulip was very glad and it was soon in its home under the earth. Une day he saw a big leaf roll down through his door. Then the leaf jumped up. The sad little tulip was now very glad and asked the little leaf to stay till summer, which it did. At last spring came, and the tulip and the leaf went out of the house. The next day, though, the leaf had grown quite tall, and the little tulip looked happily up at it. -Joan I-Iarris, Grade III.

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Page Twenty-Jive VOX FL UMINIS WHEN DOGS AND CATS RULED THE WORLD This imaginative tale opens in the year of 9000 B.C. There was an island in the Mediterranean Sea, called Bow Wow Land. The king of this island was called King Bow Wow, his wife, the queen, had the soft name of Queen Kitty Kat. The king was a fat round gentleman with a stubby tail, appealing eyes, white teeth, and a mouth large enough to swallow' two bones at a time. He had a little beard of which he was very proud. Every morning he would brush it till the queen thought it would wear out. The queen was a very graceful lady with shiny green eyes, long whiskers, a very soft coat. and a tail that was always up in the air. His Majesty, King Bow Wow, and Her Royal Highness, Queen Kitty Kat, lived in a very beautiful palace. In the distance, King Bow VVow could hear the breakers roar. This pleased him very much for he loved to go swimming every morning in the sea. One day, bad news arrived. A messenger came from King VVagtail of Wagtail Land Ca nearby islandj to give a message to King Bow Wow. The message read as follows:- Dear King Bow Wow, One of my messengers, who was out fishing the other day, was lost in a great fog. When the sun came out again, my messenger found himself beside a new land, that no one had ever seen before. My messenger saw very queer and strange creatures, with two legs, a head and two arms. My messenger said there must have been millions of these strange creatures. I want to know whether you will help me to make up an army to drive these creatures away. i Yours sincerely, King Wagtail of Wagtail Island. The king sent back a message saying that he would help to gather an army. Two weeks later, you would have seen twenty vessels sailing off from the shores. When they arrived at the new land, they were shown immediately to the king who was called King Biswod. The soldier dogs all had great big bones slung over their shoulder. The king said, So far you have ruled the world but now we have come, and you must give up your power. They both sadly thought this over for a time, and then said, Yes, we must give up our power and we will let you rule the world, but we have decided that we must have back our own islandsf, Eight weeks later, twenty ships sailed back to Bow Wow Island and Wagtail Land. Maybe King Bow Wow and Queen Kitty Kat and King Wagtail are still living in two undiscovered islands of the Mediterranean Sea. Let us hope that some day they will be discovered. -Maria Kipp, Grade VI.