Shawnigan Lake School - Yearbook (Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia Canada)

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The audience darted forward, The orchestra fell back; When suddenly beneath their feet, They felt the timbers crack. But with a crash like thunder, Fell every loosened sill; We nearly lost our band that time, But no! they ' re playing still. M. A. E. Answers to Correspondents F.H.T.B.— No, we think you are mistaken. An optimist is not necessarily a man who mends glasses, nor is a pessimist a man who puts on a pair of braces and wears a belt as well. Motorist — We quite agree with your idea, but believe there is no truth in the rumour that 1925 Fords are to be fitted with a device to show which way they are going; still, of course, the Buena Vista is quite a steep hill. Sportsman — We think you must have been attend ng too many baseball matches. A refugee is not a man who keeps order at a football match. Neither, for that matter, is a bliz- zard the inside of a hen, as somebody tried to inform us the other day. T. W. — No; to find the area of a floor, you must do some thing more than add the four walls; besides, what hap- pens if the windows are open? Anyway, you will probably agree with our correspondent, who tells us that a problem is a figure which you do things with, which are absurd and then prove them. Worried — No; Sodom and Gomorrah were not des- troyed by brimstone and treacle; on the contrary we are assured on the best authority that brimstone and treacle, if taken in proper quantities, might have done the citizens of these two cities quite a lot of good. Hunter — No; the shooting season for clarionet and cor- net players has not been declared open yet. We don ' t mind saying that we have laid in a large stock of shells, and believe that good bags will be obtained near the music room shortly after dusk. 25

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Our Band (With apologies to the shade of Lord Macauly) The Principal of Shawnigan, By the nine gods he swore That the great house of Lonsdale Should have an orchestrore. By the nine gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade the music stores send forth East and west, and south and north, For instruments to play. Soon sackbut, harp and psaltery, And things of fearful shape, And fiddles of enormous size, With strings on which to scrape; And clarionets and flutes and horns, And anything for sale From which a sound could be produced, Came crowding in the mail. Then up spake our Headmaster, A flautist bold was he: Oh! who will stand on my right hand, And play the bass with me? So then were nights of wailing, As the band got under way, Each striving hard to burst himself Before the concert day. But, lo! the band begins to play; The concert has begun. We cannot, even if we would, Open the doors and run. No sound of joy or sorrow Is heard on either hand; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stand gazing at the band. 24

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Student — Surely you are mistaken. We feel that more was known of the prophet Elijah than that he went for a cruise with a widow. Perhaps you are thinking of the prophet Elisha, who, so a correspondent informs us, was in the habit of using a popular make of car because he went up to Heaven on ' high, ' and only a Ford could do that. Fond Parent — Yes; it is quite true that an American science teacher was had up the other day for putting a boy in an electric chair. Of course, these American schools are so well equipped. Old Boys ' Notes F. Gooch is spending his week-ends at Shawnigan again, having gone into business in Victoria. J. Musgrave is back at Quamichan Lake. C. E. Tryon was a welcome visitor during the Summer holidays, and has now returned to Glenalmond, where he is the O. T. C. L. Wollaston is to be congratulated on rowing for his House Second Eight at Monckton Coombe, Bath, England. J. Lander has brought us much credit at Shrewsbury. He hopes to go to Cambridge next year, and meanwhile he stroked the school boat at Henley, beating Jesus College, Cam- bridge, in the finals for the Ladies ' Plate, in what The Field describes as the second most notable feature of the regatta, and to quote homThe Times, Lander stroked with great judgment in all the races. Our hearty congratulations! N. Christison is living at Coldingham, Berwickshire, where he is serving his engineering apprenticeship. A. M. Robertson has entered the firm of Evans, Coleman Evans in Vancouver. R. Eddison is in the Sixth Form at Charterhouse. T. Eddison is a Senior Cadet at the R. N. C, Dartmouth, and helped materially towards the winning of the Good Losers ' Prize in boxing for his year. T. Golby has written a most interesting letter from H. M. S. Velox, in which ship he is doing his R.N.R. course, and 26