Selwyn House School - Yearbook (Montreal, Quebec Canada)

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FOR THE SCHOOL YH.-XR 1931419.33 As the performance was one and harmonious, it would be improper to select any single player for especial praise, -'Y except pmssibly I lrlando, .-Xtlam, jacques, and Touchstone. But all the players, except Jacques and Urlando, have yet to learn that there is a beauty in human speech, as there is in the singing voice, to which they have not yet attained. .-X. M. It only remains for us to add that our hearty thanks are due fu Hr. llonald for his untiring efforts in direction and stage production, and members of the cast assure us that under his guidance the long hours of rehearsing did not contain one minute of boredom. Squirrels Squirrels of my acquaintance are divided into two classes, namely, the black squirrels of Toronto, and the grey ones of Montreal. The black, as a general rule, are tamer than the grey, and I have known one to come in through a window and eat out of my hand. My uncle said that one little black fellow used to come in every morning, perch on his shoulder, and help demolish breakfast I The grey ones are shyer about coming through windows and doors, but on and around the steps leading up to the top of Mount Royal they will come and eat peanuts out of anyone's hand. One day, my Mother and I went up on the mountain ne Mount Royal, ofcoursef- armed with a camera and a bag of peanuts, determined to get some squirrel snapshots at a place we knew of near the steps. We arrived at our destination, and after making a few noises which we fondly imagined were like a squirrel chattering, we saw several approach cautiously. fXVhen a squirrel moves carefully over the ground he reminds me of a prowling cat ll. VVe began to feed them, taking snapshots the while, and enjoying ourselves im- mensely. Once I tried holding on to the nut when a big fat squirrel came along, he tugged hard two or three times and then, suddenly, bounced into the air with his legs spread wide apart, landed a little to one side, and scuttled away. Another time, when I was out with John Stewart, I tried the same trick, but the squirrel just wrestled with my hand until he got the nut! A few minutes later John was lying down on the ground holding out a handful of nuts for a squirrel, but instead of going straight for the nuts, it went round behind him and then suddenly climbed up on his arm and sniffed in his ear, then it drew back, and looked hard at him, as much as to say YVhat on earth's this P 'Ilhen it snitled in his pocket and scuttled away without even touching the nuts that John had held out. just as we were getting ready to go home we saw a grey fluffy tail sticking out from behind a tree, so we went to see what the owner looked like, and we found a little grey squirrel sitting up, chewing busily ata short, fat, twig in very much the same way that we would eat corn. It was amusing to see little chips of wood flying in every direction I PAT I,i'r'ri.a, Form 5. l29l

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FOR THE SCHOOL YE.-KR 1932-1933 A QYIP. lhlr, .-Xnstey, with some of Shakespeare's puns 1 Not on thy soul, but on thy sole... etc, and Gaunt as a grave... etc., see Gaunt's speech in King Richard 21 and plays on words, in mind, sends us the following.l Curious how the great Vliilliam, and his contemporaries, loved the play upon words which we esteem so lightly nowadays. How, for instance, might he have said that this, our body-house, owes to bread and butler its lzrmdflz of foundation and the bu!!re,r,v of its walls, the which shall neither frznnbff nor xfip. And yet to these we all must yoke the mifk of human kindness, e'er, thus eggfd on, we produce the whiteji'0u r of a blame- less life l C. T. .-X. A REBLTS fHere is an ingenious rebus, or riddle, for you to solve. As it is rather diH'icult, we will give you one clue. The subject of this puzzle is a camp follower of the olden days who sold illicit liquor to the troops.-EDJ Soothed hy the ..... of leaves he sat, The ..... , spreading his .,... Hat. The moonbeams' ..... lighted his spoil, As he told the ..... of illicit toilg And to John Barleycorn sang his song: Thou ..,.. the brave: thou ..... the strong: The beaten ..... to feel thy thong I Six letters, the same, will till each space, :X different word in every place. Perhaps the following alternative lines will he found easier to solve: The moonheams' ..,.. lights the scene, 'Mid the ..... of boughs that form a screen, Where he waits, alert, and counts his spoil, The ..... , if he win it, of lawless toil. And this is the song the ..... sang As, clad in his ..... , he 'waited his gang: Thou ..... the haughty, ..... the strong, Thy victims ...., to feel thy thong. C . T. A. l3ll