Ruperts Land Girls School - Eagle Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE 31 pockets. He had a dirty boyish face, out of which two large eyes seemed to gleam inquisitively and over them hung a shaggy mop of uncut hair. He stood there, without a name, one of a hundred others. Monotonously he called his paper and eagerly darted forward in the hope of selling one to some benevolent gentleman or to a fashionably dressed lady, through the window of a splendid car. He was not envious of these people to whom he sold. He was too anxious to earn and take home money to his mother -so he quickly counted his remaining papers in the hope of being nearly finished. ' By six-thirty most of the crowd had vanished, and by seven, the last paper was sold. He was tired now, and hungry, and he longingly pressed his face to the delicatessen window. In the centre were tiny frosted cakes, cream rolls and curly buns, and on either side huge chocolate layer cakes, spicy loaves and sugary cup-cakes. He pressed his nose still flatter against the window pane in a last longing glance and then thrusting his hands deep into his pockets he turned and disappeared into the darkness. BETTY PARKER '! l !' THE WOODPECKER The woodpecker's beak goes tap, tap, tap, And I wonder if he's knocking at the door! For, if fairies go to Fairyland they rap, rap, rap. I didn't know birds rapped as well before. GRADES III AND IV 'I' 'I' 'I' HALLOWE'EN A Hallowe'en witch comes on her broom With a big black cat behind. Here she comes sailing under the moon- I wonder what she will find. Apples and pumpkins, juicy and round, A goblin, an owl, and a bat. Here she comes gliding down to the ground In her big, black wide-a-wake hat. GRADES III AND IV

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30 RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE peeping between the stones as if asking permission to grow there. At the sides there would be flowers of every scent and hue, bold dahlias and zinnias, shy violets and tender roses, sweet scented stocks and modest mignonette lending fragrance to the harmony of colour. At the back, a neatly tended vegetable garden, discreetly screened by green painted lattice overgrown with ivy, would serve the modest needs of the kitchen. And round it all fto keep the rabbits from eating too much of the lettuceb would be a white- painted wooden fence, with a little white gate in front, and perhaps, if nature were doubly, kind, a tiny silver stream to tinkle across a corner of my simple garden into the woods behind. So, here in this secluded haven would I be content to live my life in peace and happiness, and gradually, from year to year, build up a surer and more lasting tie between my little house and me-an affection which would satisfy and merge into complete happiness. A pet or two,'a faithful dog grown old in comfort and contentment, pleasant friends and neighbors, village children coming up for gifts of flowers-if I could but grow old in the midst of these, I would consider myself doubly repaid for life's trials and endeavors. It would be something indeed for which to work. RUTH HEADLAM' WI' 'I' 'X' A NEWS-BOY The September twilight had drawn in across the western sky, sending brilliant shafts of light into its dull and sullen depths. The leaves on the avenue, which the week before had been so vivid, were now crisp and brown, and overhead, the wind, herald of a cold wet night, sighed and moaned through the trees. Lights glittered through steam-smeared shop windows and cast bright patches into the ever-increasing gloom: and through it all, people rushed and hurried-pushing' and shoving, buying and selling, in order to get home. Paper! Paper! All about the football match! Paper, Sir? A small boy darted in and out of the throngs gathered for street-cars. He wasn't particularly noticeable except for his raggedness. He was about twelve years of age and he wore on his thin brown body a pair of grey trousers, frayed at the edges and patched with many different kinds of materials. Over this was a red, high-necked sweater, several sizes too large, and on his head, a small peaked cap slanted over one eye. His shoes were heavy, with thick soles, and his gloveless hands were thrust deep into his

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32 RUPERT'S LAND COLLEGE MAGAZINE WHY TEACHERS LOOK THAT WAY Cat R. L. CJ The textile industries are on the west coast of England because the quarries or places where the tiles come from are there. Mandated territories are where man has grown dates and made it a great success. Tea from India and Ceylon has greatly replaced that from China, because the Chinese started to get lazy and put 'bits of wood and other things in with the tea. Adam Bede translated St. John's Gospel into English in Anglo-Saxon times. MASCULINE FEMININE marquis marquine drake drone czar ewe I peacockess peacock hencock 'I' 'X' 'I' THE CRIME At eleven-thirty I woke up and heard a noise at the end of the passage which leads from my room to a door opening into a little verandah at the side of the house. 1 listened again and decided that it was only the wind coming through the cracks in the door. In the morning it was discovered that the silver chest had disappeared from the attic. I told the police about the noise in the night, and it was noticed that the door of which I spoke was open, and a scrap of rough cloth was caught on the bark of the tree beside the verandah. Our garage and the one belonging to the next house were side by side, and marks as if something had been dragged from them to the neighbouring house were visible. The house is a duplex, and the janitor has a grudge against us, also his wife objects to dogs, and we have three. Their premises were searched thoroughly by the police and our furnace man who was very interested. The furnace-man had a large darn in his rough coat, but his wife said that she had darned it herself a week before. She might, of course, be lying, so the patch was carefully examined Cmuch to the furnace-man's annoyancej. How- ever it was not a hasty looking patch, as one done over-night would probably have been, so he escaped suspicion. The man was then put under observation, unknown to him. The following night, the police, watching from behind the garage, saw his back door slowly open