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

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine unfold what plaited cunning hides. The mention of time here was obviously important, so we next turned our attention to dates. We then found that he was supposed to have been born in 1564, while further investigation con- clusively proved that this date had been used as a cryptogram in the play. The one in the date obviously refers to act one, while the five is the scene. Six and four add together to make ten, and the first letter in line ten of act one scene five is N. By similar simple mathematical processes we arrive at the letters N, A, O, B and C, which are an obvious anagram of Bacon. Sir, we sincerely trust that this brief but irrefutable proof of the fact that it was really Bacon who wrote under the name of Shakespeare will once and for all put a stop to further arguments on the subject. Thanking you, sir, for thus permitting us to bring the results of our dili- gent research to light through the medium of your enlightened organ, We remain, Yours truly, D. W. Celde, Anagram Club. COACH AND REFEREE It is laid down in the rules that the referee may not coach the players. This is an attempt to look into the mind of a referee who is also the coach of one of the contending teams. This, needless to say, is a modified version of what we find there: Break, break, break! You ' re all asleep in that scrum! And oh! that my tongue could utter My thoughts just as they come. Bad luck to that lazy forward, Who won ' t keep up with the play! Devil take that clumsy three-quarter, Who has dropped every pass today! And the heedless scrum goes on Always dribbling ahead with the ball, But oh! for the grip of a supple stick, And to speak just once, — that ' s all. Break, break, break With the ball at your feet, you scrum! But who would think that seven boys Could be so infernally dumb! —P. H. 30

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine write on your report that you have a sound knowledge of the subject up to the point reached. Your holidays and the money you receive at Christmas can be most profit- ably spent in buying cribs, or if you prefer a more refined word keys to the various text books used, after which you can sit back in comfort and with their aid sail through Matric with over sixty percent. I hope shortly to be able to make Mathematics, French and English Gram- mar as simple, provided the editor will publish my articles. « CORRESPONDENCE » To the Editor, Shawnigan Lake School Magazine. Dear Sir: May we venture, through the medium of your world famous magazine, to put an end to a long and foolish argument which has vexed the wise men of many countries for a number of years. We refer to the question of whether Bacon wrote Shakespeare or not. It has always been remarked by all close students of the works of the so-called Bard of Avon that there are a remark- able number of references to pigs in his plays — to quote but two examples: 1st witch: Where hast thou been, sister? 2nd witch: Killing swine, and again: — 1st witch: Pour in sow ' s blood. Now a further point which has apparently been overlooked until now is the fact that the so-called Shakespeare has a daughter called Susanna. It is obvious, even to those but slightly acquainted with the Latin tongue, that sus means pig: add to this the fact that his son was called HAMnet, and we have two further conclusive proofs of his desire to tell those wise enough to understand that Shakespeare was a mere nom de plume for Bacon, or cooked pig. But why, someone may ask, did he assume the name of Shakespeare? This point troubled us for some time but we eventually solved it as follows: In Bacon ' s day the shaking of a spear (ancient spelling speare) was obviously an act of intimida- tion towards one ' s foes and was meant to put them off: he therefore thought that it would be the right name for one to use who was endeavoring to put off those who wished to know his real name. There is, of course, additional sugges- tion of his real identity conveyed in the word when we consider that spears were principally used for boar-hunting in his day. But enough of these refer- ences to pigs: Bacon was not the man to leave his work of self -revelation incom- plete, but he gives us a very definite proof of his real name in one of his plays. Now one of his plays is called King Lear, and Lear it will be noted is an anagram of the word real. So it is that in the very title of the play he lets us know that he is going to tell us his real name. Not contented with this broad hint, he states quite bluntly early on in this play Meantime we shall express our darker purpose, and a little later the significant remark is found Time shall 29

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Shawnigan Lake School Magazine Va I e t e » RIPLEY ' S— Bourdillon, P. G. F.; 1929. Bradford, D. E.; 1925. F. S. School Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Henniker, C. J. C; 1928. House Prefect. Kennedy, W. D.; 1930. 1st XL Kumler, R. L.; 1930. Kumler, C. F.; 1930. Lile, C. E.; 1930. Nixon, C. P.; 1926. Savage, D. B.; 1929. House Prefect. Sharland, T. H. A.; 1929. Sumner, R. M.; 1931. LAKE ' S- Lake, J. F.; 1923. School Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Maxwell, D. E.; 1927. Pearce, R. F.; 1928. F. S. House Prefect, 1st XL Piddington, P.; 1932. Pownall, G. A.; 1927. School Prefect, 1st XV. Robertson, D. F.; 1927. House Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL GROVES ' — Adams, M. C.; 1930. House Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Aikins, A. F. C.; 1931. Charlton, G. K.; 1932. Henry, P.M.; 1931. Hyde, R. H.; 1929. Lawson, D. J.; 1931. House Prefect, 1st XV. Macleay, R. L.; 1931. Plummer, A. B.; 1927. House Prefect. Torland, T.; 1928. House Prefect. Torland, J. P.; 1931. COPEMAN ' S— Bell, J. W.; 1930. Davis, G. E.; 1929. Dyson, G. F.; 1929. School Prefect, 1st XV, 1st XL Macdonald, I. D.; 1930. Paul, A. B.; 1929. Shannon, R. P.; 1929. School Prefect, 1st XV. Skrimshire, P.; 1929. House Prefect, 1st XV. Stirling, M. G.; 1929. House Prefect, 1st XV. Ross, R. D. S.; 1930. 31