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

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VOX FLUMINIS 7 ll ll i ADVENTURES IN THE NORTH ' fPrize Winning Storyj THE following is a very exaggerated and comical account of an Arctic, or thereabouts, adventure. It couldn't be anything but foolish since Captain Ezra Pyke is the narrator. First let me introduce you to the Cap'n. He isn't very tall, in fact, quite the reverse, with a well-fed tummy and a broad, beaming countenance. Despite his very comfortable appearance he has led an exciting life, as he will tell you. His one fault is over-indulgence especially in matters of food. But that needn't worry us since Cap- tain Ezra has just begun one 'of the stories for which he is famous. Yes Sir, those were the good old days! Why I remember away back in 'eighty-six when my crew and I went on a fishing trip in the North Sea Islands. That was when I was Capt'n on the 'Mary- land,' the stoutest little ship that ever set out of port. Well, we left on Friday morning. It was good sailing until we got north of Labrador and then we struck a gale. There was nothing to do but lower the sails and wait. Unfortunately we had left the anchor behind and had to drift with the waves. Speaking of waves, them's the worst I've ever seen and in my days I've seen plenty. They were biggerln this here house. We drifted for ten days, only God knows where. The only time we came near any fish was the time we were wedged in be- tween two rocks and the fish trying to get us. Once a whale came on board-and, as everyone else was scared, I took the butcher knife and after a terrifice struggle killed the brute. We kept on drifting, always farther north, till by this time we'd gone two weeks I had on four pairs of red flannels, two waistcoats, my own trousers as well as the head engineer's, the mate's fur coat and three blankets. As I was saying before, that was the worst shipwreck I've ever been in. Oh, pardon me! I thought Ild told you we were wrecked. Yes Sir! why they even had to take a pair of my red flannels to make a flag. The first pair blew away with the wind, the second was torn and the third fell into the sea. I resolved to keep my last, so they took. the blankets and the mate took his fur coat, so there I was stranded in mid ocean with only one pair of red flannels. I assure you I was never sohumiliated in all my life. Finally, after drifting for days without a single blessed ship coming within fifteen leagues of us, the men took sick with scurvy. Some of them died leaving only four of us, valiant and hearty sea- men. That night we held a meeting and'I swore to guide them safely

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VOX FLUMINIS School Cjalcndar THIRD TERM OF 1934-1935 May 1- ...... ..... - ---School opened. May 3 ....... .... Mrs. Campbell spoke to us. ' May 8.- .,., - - ........ Some of our songsters competed in the Festival. May 17- ...... ...... Old Girls' Day. May 29- ..... - ...,... Swimming Meet. May 31- .... -- - ........ Garden Party. June 14- .... - ..,...... Closing. September 11 September 20 September 30 October 8 Cctober 14-- Cctober 17---- October 18 November 1 November 8 November 15 November 26 December 12 December 13 December 19 December 20 FIRST TERM OF 1935-1936 .... School opened. I .... House picnics. .... Election of officers. --------Field Day. .Miss Craw spoke to us. --------Miss Hesson gave us an illustrated talk. .... Roller-skating Party. --------HalloWe'en Party. -------The Special Glee Club sang at a Con- vention of teachers in St. James. -------.Hiking Party. .... Enrolment of Girl Guide Company. ----Doctor Gordon spoke tous. - ------- Tobogganing Party. -------Senior Play. School closed. SECOND TERM OF 1935-1936 January ----- School re-opened. January ---- Memorial Service for our late sovereign, King George V. I February 14,----- ---- Basketball game With St. Mary's Academy. February 21 ------- ---School Party. March 5---- ------- -- ---- Basketball game with St. Mary's Academy. A March 20- ------ - ------- Gym Display. April 7--- -------- - ------ School closed. THIRD TERM OF 1935-1936 April 20 ------- School re-opened.

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8 VOX FLUMINIS home. One of them had the nerve to say, 'Even if we have to- swim.' I chucked him overboard, a big brute of a fellow. One of the others took ill with scurvy and died next day. The other was fro-zen to death and there was I alone in the frozen North! My only comfort was that I had the run of the shipfs kitchen, but soon even that gave out. It was not long before the ship struck an iceberg and sprang a leak in the hold. By that time I was too weak to care whether the old ship went down or not. By and by I felt the water around my ankles and resolved to swim for shore. - I swam ste-adily for three hours and the floated, half asleep. The water was paralyzing and once I thought I was a goner when a huge mountain of an iceberg came bearing down upon me. I dove and the thing passed over me. Finally, after two days and nights, I reached shore. I had landed at an Eskimo settlement. A drunken group of them tried to murder me, but I soon made short work of them. E I was fortunate enough to find a schooner anchored in the harbor on which I returned home. Thus ends another of Captain Ezra's stories. He is at the present quite peeved since I refuse to believe him,-in fact, to quote him, So you'd be making a bally ol' liar of me. But nevertheless his good nature or his appetite soon overcame his distaste for my remark. FRANCES HEAKES, '37, York Hall. BUTTERFLIES Oh! Butterflies, purple and gold, With your queenly airs and bold, You, with your wings a sheer delight, Folded in cobwebby slumber at night. Oh! Butterflies, yellow and white, Wrapped in green leaves far out 'of sight, When you emerge from your cocoon, You are as fresh as the bright new moon. Oh! Butterflies, small and great, As you come in your season, early or late, You bring a message of bright good cheer, That gives us pleasure throughout the year. MARJORIE C. MCKINNELE, '38, ' Garry Hall.