Saltus Grammar School - Yearbook (Hamilton, Bermuda)

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15 the bread crumbs (one hundred didn ' t matter). Pushing them back to Stonehenge Rock was hard work. X set to, and started heaving away at a large bread crumb with a spot of jam on it. I got half way home when I saw a light. I curiously went over to it and walked right into the trap. I dropped my bread crumb and ran, but I couldn ' t go for long and I fell down. Two of my friends hdlped me get up and carried me on their backs toward home, but we only got half way when they said they were tired and had to put me down. I finally got home (X don ' t know how) , and was told by a very cruel soldier on guard duty to go and pick utp my bread crumb, which I had left behind. I asked him if I could go and put some anitiderm pilaster on my burn (which, I was told later, came from a human ' s magnifying glass, a very hot weapon). He answered me in a very gruff voice, saying, No !, I gave him an awful look and got a boost along the trail by his foot. I started walking slowly back and finally found my bread crumb and was so tired, and my back hurt so much that I stumbled and fell all the way home again. When I got home and had pushed the bread crumb into the store room, I: went into my room and found my cousin, Fly- ing Ant, who had escaped from the human ' s Hamilton Hotel when it burned down. He was sitting reading the Ant Gazette which I had left behind when the bell rang, so we discussed the news together. The headlines were Over one thousand ants killed by humans , and I read aloud, Yesterday over one thousand ants were killed by a mechanical machine called a flit gun, which squirts a very poisonous gas called A.N.T. fluid. These ants were working very hard, trying to get a human ' s lunch tin back to their town called Anty, then they were suddenly being fired upon by their most mortal enemies, humans. A collection is being itaken at every home now for the relatives of the brave ants who died in the battle . And so ends my tragic story. I said good-bye to Flying Ant, and went to bed, dreaming about humans who were massacred by ants. A ;Df. FRITH, Form IV L

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14 D.C.L.I.) had been encountered. What was thought to be ' ' hostile signals being whistled back and forth was really some kind of bird. When the objective was reached, a mass attack was launched against the Fort, held by the D. ' C.LJ., when, on a given signal, the cadets charged madly through the undergrowth, wildly firing blanks rom their .303 ' s. At night, the positions were changed, and the cadets defended the Fort. At the last camp, an added feature was hejid on Saturday even- ing, when a Feu de Joie was fired, watched by a large crov d of spectators. Rifle drill on the march was performed by a section of platoon No. 3, and prizes were awarded for shooting and either com- petitions. Finally, there is the last night, which is just as bad (or good) as ithe first, when practical jokes are played, until everyone collapses through sheer exhaustion. The next morning. Camp breaks up and everyone goes home to enjoy a peaceful sleep, which is very gratifying to most cadets, after a strenuous but enjoyable week. SL G. All Ant ' s Life at Saltus I am an ant named David and I am now writing at my desk un- der Stonehenge Rock, just below the hated humans ' Saltus Grammar School main door, which is over one thousand feeHers tall. Oh, ant-eaters! there goes the bell six times. This means a long trek. I hurriedly put The Ant Gazette away and walk out to the back door in our rock and wait for all the others to come. Then we start out, first came five soldiers and then about one hundred and fifty workers including me, and ithen about twenty more soldiers. We had walked about one antimetre when we came upon about four hundred more ants from Green Grass Territories, outside the schooil ' s east door. Then guess what happened? The humans came out for their break and we were just below their big steps when they came charging down, dropping paper and bread everywhere and also putting their great weight down on us little creatures, and killing at least one hundred; but we calmly went and started gathering up

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16 Journey To The Blue Continent It was a beautiful day; the sun was burning down from the pale blue heavens, a soft breeze blew in from off the sea, and a few lazy- clouds drifted across the sky. lit was a scene of perfect serenity which was to be broken by the voices of men. It was early in the morning when we gathered together and plan- ned the day ' s adventure. There were four of us altogether, Pierre, Joseph, Archie and myself. Much had to be done before we would be able to start and so we did not loiter. Everything, from the food we were going to eaft to the boat we were going to use, was prepared and by 10 in the morning we were able to shove off from the dock. The boat was about 22 feet long and it was driven along fairly fast by an old dilapida ted outboard motor. In the boat we had placed the twelve aqua-lungs, which we woufld be wearing, fins, masks, spear- gun, food and plenty of gas for the motor. We went along for about an hour and a half and by that time we reckoned we were about ten miles off Bermuda so we decided to drop anchor and to try this spat for some spearfishing. We decided not to use the aqua lungs at first for we wished to save the air in case we found a good spot. A ladder was lowered over the side and we went over the edge of the boat and into the sea which was very calm. The water was extremely clear; so much so, that as we floated along on the surface, we seemed to be suspended in mid-aid and the bottom of the sea was only aibout thirty five feet below us. Each of us swam in a different direction in the hope that one of us would find something interesting. A quarter of an hour later Joseph swam towards us and told me that Pierre had found a wreck. Quickly we swam over to where Pierre was and he pointed the wreck out to us. It was not very much to see but we knew that it would be very interesting so we decided to explore. We swam back to the boat and brought it over the site of the wreck. However, before donning our masks again, we decided to have something to eat. After completing our lunch, we rested for a while in order to let our food digest, then we prepared the aqualungs. We each had two bottles of air which were joined so that we could have one hundred and forty cubic feet of air altogether. We lowered