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

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VOX F L U M I N I S Page Twenty-six .........,..........................-.........-.........................................-. .... . ...... .........-. ...... ........ .......... .... .......... .............-................. ,. .......... .... ..... ... ..... ............... ...... . . .................. . -...-.......................................................-.................................................- MR. AND MRS. SILAS SHOE In a place called a pound, in a place called Riverbend school, reposed two shoes. They were oxfords and they were married. Mrs. Shoe was angry. Look what you've done, got us in jailg and you're the brilliant, handsome Silas Shoe! My. oh my! What a fool I was not to marry the distinguished Percival Pump! Why, I would have lived in a palace. Keep quiet, you imbecile, while I give you a talking to ! B-but my dear, said Mr. Shoe, and got no farther, for Mrs. Shoe was at him again. You're nothing but a bedroom slipper, raged Mrs. Shoe. Quite true! roared all the occupants of the pound. Keep quiet ! After a while. Mrs. Shoe looked around, Silas-s-s ! she trilled in a high soprano. , Z-z-z-z-snore. 0h. you brute! You brute! VVhy, you're made of the cheapest leather that ever was ! she screamed My itsy, bitsy shoesy, keep quiet, because you're disturbing every- body, entreated Silas. Disturbing! shrieked Mrs. Shoe, getting purple in the face. You talk, you worm ! just wait till we get homeg why I'll tear your tongue out. Silence fell, and the occupants of the pound were deep in sleep. Came the dawn. Mrs. Shoe woke up in a bad temper. Silas ? Silence. Silas-s-s-s. Z-z-z-z-snoref' q Beast ! Brute ! Wake up, I say ! Mr. Shoe woke up with a gleam of murder in his eyes. Now listen here, I've had just about enough of this, you noisy piece of rubber. Boo-hoo-hoo ! I'm insulted. I'll get a divorce. I'll commit suicide. Boo-hoo-hoo ! Z-z-z-z-snore. In the morning the pound was opened and the shoes were taken out. Good riddance ! said a boot. To bad rubbish ! replied a pen. -julia Dale, Grade VIII.

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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.

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Page Twenty-seven V OX FL U M I N I S CARRY HALL 'S' The House system was introduced into Riverbend about the middle of October and at our first meeting, Patty Collard was elected House Captain, Kay Hall, Secretary and Ruth Baldry, Sports Captain. The teachers in Garry Hall are Miss Wilson, Miss White and Miss Vaux. At the end of the second term we found it necessary to elect .a new captain and Ariel Anderson was elected to the office. The Hall decided as a Xmas project, to give a hamper to a family in need in the city. The hamper was gratefully accepted. It was decided that there should be inter-house basketball and badmin- ton games. Our house entered with much enthusiasm. For the swimming meet a shield was made by Isobel Hutchinson, in the colors of Garry Hall, which are red and white. We are proud of Marjorie Kelm and Isobel Hutchinson. who were successful in their respective classes in the Manitoba Musical Festival. The Magazine Committee are in need of funds, so at a later date, we are going to have a garden party at which all houses will take part. To close the first year of Garry Hall, we intend to have a picnic. -Ruth Baldry and Shiela Paget. FORT GARRY Fort Garry was built -as a Hudson's Bay Fort, near the site of several former forts, at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers. The first Fort Garry was named on April 18, 1882, after Nicholas Garry, one of the directors of the Company in London. The fort was rebuilt several times. In 1835, Upper Fort Garry, or the Store Fort, was built, a substan- tial structure, with solid stone walls and four large bastions. In 1850 it was enlarged and a new gateway was erected. In 1882 the fort was demolished except for the gateway, and the land was sold to the City of Winnipeg. In 1897, the gateway, which still stands, was presented to Win- nipeg by the Hudson's Bay Company. In its grand days, Fort Garry was the centre of fur trading, settling, the buffalo hunt, and all those activities of pioneer times, even as its successor, Winnipeg, is the western metropolis of today. -M. Aline Harvey. THE LAST GUEST A few days ago, Jerry and his nurse Dorothy. had been out on their usual afternoon walk. It had proved to be one of those days that are not very cold but just cloudy and dull. The young man walking beside Dorothy was generally full of many silly questions or foolish comments, but this