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

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30 Vox Fluminis of the sea. With the mighty force of the whale's body, the octopus is usually killed. However, if the octopus is not killed, it will eventually strangle the whale. The Whalers often find small octopi. In each tentacle, the little octopus has a small claw about the size of that of a kitten. One time last year, one of the whalers found a claw the size of a cow's horn next to the blow hole of the whale. From that fact you may be able to im- agine how large the octopus grows. Penguins Penguins live in large rookeries. There are many kinds of penguins in- cluding the large King Penguins, Hop- per Penguins and Boxing Penguins. The mother penguin will not allow the baby penguin to go near the water until he is grown up. Then he is allowed to paddle in shallow water, but he may not go beyond his depth, because he cannot dive and hide from his enemies. Penguins do not stay on land in win- ter. On a certain day in the year all the penguins leave and take to the water. They stay in the water all win- ter, living on fish all this time. Then when a certain day comes, be it warm or cold, they all return to land. The penguin, if caught when young, makes a very fine pet. Two pet pen- guins went into a graden with the gar- dener and as the gardener dug up po- tatoes, the two penguins piled them in a heap and kept guard over them. They must have thought the potatoes were eggs. ELLEN KINNEARD, Grade VI, York Hall. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT ln the dark of a summer night, As I lie in my little bed, The silvery moon brings forth a light That shines around my head. The stars play hide and seek In the depths of the sombre sky, The Mother Moon her watch doth keep As the hours of night fly by. BETTY J oHNsToN, Grade VIII, York Hall. MANUEL He sits in his doorway, sits and smokes, The children pass on their way to play, Oh, tell us a story, Manuel, Oh, tell us a story, please, they say, For nobody, nobody else can tell A story like you can, Manuel. He takes his pipe from his mouth and frowns, Well, leave me alone before I Will. But he knows he's glad to have them there, The children know, so they clamor still, A story, a story, oh, please, do tell, Oh, tell us a story, please, Manuel. The story's started, and then it's doneg And Manuel begs to stop, in vain, For the children's voices drown his own, Tell us a story, they cry again, I Another, another, oh, please, do tell, Tell us another, oh, please, Manuel. The story's done and away they go, Manuel smokes and sits in the sun, He really loves the children to say, As they gather round when school is done, A story, a story, oh, please, do tell, Oh, tell, us a story, please, Manuel. BETTY BASTERFIELD, Grade IX, Douglas Hall. THE ADVENTURE OF KITT'Y KAT IHAVE a grey kitten called Fluffy. His birthday is on Easter day. He will be two years old. I got him on Easter day. Kitty loves curds and cream. When I feed him, he always says, Purr, purrf' Mrs. Grey Cat was Fluffy's mother. Fluffy, would you like to live in the barn? Yes, said Fluffy. One day as Fluffy was outside he saw a dark figure moving about. Fluffy was frightened. He ran into the

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Vox Fluminis 29 the pile he found a two-day-old news- paper. As he picked it up, a sheet of paper fell from between the leaves. He caught it as it fiuttered to the floor and looked it over. It was a sheet from a memo pad and across it were scrawled some words in a peculiar straggly writing. Johnson unsuspect- ing. Carry on as planned. Cost and account records to be found in Vault Five to the left. Combination XV273. Change 25,000 to 2,500,000. Svenn was a little surprised to see the name of the head of the corporation, J. W. John- son, scrawled on a piece of paper, ap- parently good for nothing more than to be tossed into the waste-paper basket. However, the matter did not interest him particularly. He realized, with a yawn, that he had work to do. Slowly he rose to his feet and began to toss the papers back into the basket. Their next trip was to the furnace. Sf lk Pk if A month later in the London Times. these headlines appeared, HJ. W. John- son, Head of Johnson and Johnson In- corporated, Convicted of Embezzling 552,500,000 Insurance Money of Resi- dents of Birminghamf' NANCY KENNEDY, Grade X, Nelson Hall. YAKS THE Yaks belong to the same family as the ox. They are found only in Tibet and part of China. The Yak is soon recognized by the long hair that grows from its limbs and around its sides and which, sometimes, is so long that it reaches the ground. The Yak can be quite easily domesticated. It is very heavy for its size and has short legs and a long, narrow neck. The male Yak has long, cylindrical horns. Male s.pecimens, that are fine animals, stand nearly six feet high at the shoulders and weigh well over one thousand pounds. Yaks are to be found in the most rugged and inaccessible districts, and always at high elevations, as they are not able to stand the heat. It has been said that heat is fatal for them. Because they are creatures of the hills and consume only grasses and greens found on the mountains, they cannot be induced to eat grains. The Yaks are the motive po-wer of the Tibetans. Their strength in bearing burdens, their skill in crossing glaciers, their bold contempt for icy rivers, make the Yaks as useful for the Himalayas as camels are for the desert. Although the Yaks that have recently arrived at our city park are domesti- cated, they are the true beasts of bur- den of Tibet. Go out and see Yak' and Yill sometime. 7 AUDREY IVEY, Grade IX, Douglas Hall. ..i FROM A GARRET WINDOW The world is such a barren place, When all the view is chimney pots, And noisy, red-brick tenements Between the grassless vacant lots. It is a land of alleyways, And gray, slate roofs that stretch for miles, Where sit the solitary rooks, And tomcats leap across the tiles. Below, upon the cobbled streets The countless people hurry by, Above is just a blank expanse Of dreary, sunless, smoke-dulled sky. BETTY BASTERFIELD, Grade IX, Douglas Hall. 1l-1 PARAGRAPHS FROM SOUTH AMERICA HIS creature is not very p-leasant to meet. It is not accurately known how large the octopus grows. The whale and the octopus have terrible Hghts. The octopus places one tentacle over the whale's blow hole and another around the tail, thereby strangling the whale. The battle gets fiercer and fiercer, until the whale, being very an- noyed, dashes his foe against the bottom The Octopus

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Vox Fluminis 31 barn, and hid in a trunk. The black kitten got in the barn. He saw the grey kitten. He said, Don't be frightened. I Won't hurt you. I only Want to play with you. Fluffy and the black kitten became good friends, and always played together. HELEN EMERSON, Grade IV, Nelson Hall. LITTLE ESKIMO BOY VVay up in the far-off frozen north In the land of ice and snow, Lived a little Eskimo-Igluk by name. And his husky dog-Kado. They romped and played the whole day through, It was always day up there, And Igluk Wore a furry White suit- The skin of a polar bear. Sometimes they fished through holes in the ice And very successful were they. And once they found a great big whale Which was food for many a day. Their home was an igloo made of ice, And not very Warm you can seeg But Igluk was happy in his little home, As contented as you and me. NANCY COMPLIN, Grade VIII, Douglas Hall. Always Good 5 3. 'iii ii as For Delivery Telephone 87 647 V899 CITY DAIRY LTD.