Trafalgar Castle School - Yearbook (Whitby, Ontario Canada)

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V 0 X C 0 L L E G I 1 15 Go easy with tlie window, whis- pered Ola. Eve raised the window whicli made a shrill grating sound. Sh-h-h. A hand caught Eve and roughly pulled her to a crouching position be- low the window. Eve wanted to scream. Faltering footsteps were heard in the corridor and then they died away. Quickly and silently the girls crawled tlirough the window to the fire-escape. Oh-h-h said Ola in a whisper. There ' s a big stone down there and I ' ll fall on it sure — and — maybe I ' ll get hurt and then you ' ll have to tell the faculty and we ' ll be expelled. Don ' t be silly. Here, catch hold there, swing and then drop. Mid swung to the ground with the ease of a professional porch climber. There was a soft plump and the two girls picked themselves up from the long grass in the darkest part of the grounds near the back of the school. They chose the darker, less frequented streets and ran. WheitT they saw anyone approaching they slid into the shadows and waited until the passer-by was out of sight, fearing he might recognize them as wayward students. Thus, they reached downtown without meeting any of the faculty. They entered the ice-cream parlor, gave their order, four bricks of ice-cream, and the woman in charge, evidently recognizing them as school girls out of bounds, thoughtfully wrapped the bricks in dark paper. There was the sound of approaching footsteps and the -girls seized the par- cels and bolted through the back door and found themselves, laughing and breathless, in the back yard which seemed full of old cans and barrels over which they stumbled laughing, and fin- ally gained the street. Making slow progress because of the number of people on the street, they had proceeded about a block when sud- denly the sky became as black as ink, the few stars disappeared, a sudden gust of wind sent a cloud of dust roll- nig down the street which almost blind- ed them. There was a flash of light- ning, a roll of thunder and the lights went ofif. What would they not have •given to be safe and warm in the school as they clung together under the trees and shivered for fear. Tlie wind roar- ed louder and louder. They heard limbs crashing and the rain fell in tor- rents. Oh, what ' 11 we do, what ' 11 we do? wailed Eve. They were afraid of falling limbs and so they began to struggle in what they hoped was the direction of the school. Ola stumbled and fell from the curl) and then above the sound of wind and rain they heard the sound of a horse galloping on the pavement and then a woman screamed. It sounded uneartlily in the dark and storm. They lost all sense of direction and struggled on. Finally they were rewarded by seeing a faint flicker ahead and realized that it was a candle burning in the lower hall of the school. They never knew just how. they drag- ged themselves up the fire-escape and crept through the hall filled with stu- dents in wild confusion, to their own rooms. Just when Ola ' s thoug ' hts were becoming a litle more connected, the lights flashed on, from far away came a little tinkle and a moment later the nine o ' clock bell rang loiidly and clear- ly. Ola had just put on a warm kimona wdien there was a rap at the door and a teacher entered. I see that the roof is leaking again right beside the wardrobe. I shall speak to the matron about that she said as she saw a trail of water from the wardrobe. Was it exciting? asked Ola ' s room-mate when they were all snug in bed and lights out had rung. It was ' very, said Ola, and then added mentally Never again.

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14 VOX COLLEGII table over where I can stand on it to put it over the door. Our little jugglerette is going to stand on the table and put it over the door. Take oft ' your shoes or you ' ll scratch it. Mildred took Domestic Science and was supposed to know all about furni- ture and its care. She was pleasingly plump, as she described herself, and this fact, her room-mates were wont to declare, was due to her course of study. The things she cooks can ' t be so bad they urged, or she would not get so fat eating her own experiments. Ola took off the remaining shoe, filled her mouth with a fresh supply of tacks, mounted the table by means of the bed, and proceeded to tack up the picture, driving the tacks by means of the heel of her old oxford. Mighty fine hammer, this, she commented as she sucked her thvimb and straightened a tack. Evei-y shoe your own tack hammer. Think I ' ll hang out my shingle. All kinds of car- pentry work done promptly and neatly. Shades of the home-decorator. Was that a rap? More flowers. Another crush. Ola ' s latest cried her room-mates in one breath. She ' ll soon be crushed to death, said an envious neighbour. The rap was repeated sharply, and a brilliant idea seized Ola. She opened the transom and peered cautiously around the corner into the hall below. Saints preserve us. Oh Miss Hall. I ' m sorry. I ' ll open the door. At the sound of that name the girls made one dash for the furniture which was quickly cleared away from the door. Girls, it ' s study hour. Go to your own rooms, please, said the teacher, and three girls departed for home otherwise, next door. Lo, business before pleasure and we go to work said Ola. She was a senior and her words were as Solomon ' s. The three girls began to study but Ola i-ummaged around and produced a l)ox from which she took a huge cake. ' Bring me something to put the cake on, girls. One of them brought an ivory tray and the cake was duly cut and piled thereon, a steel ruler doing excellent service as a substitute for a knife. 1 promis3d the girls next door a piece but I can ' t take it in in study hour. ' ' Mildred was the room-mate with an idea. ' ' She leaned out the window and drummed on the eave trough until she got an answer from the next window, then she leaned farther out and called. Hey, kids, got a broom in there? Slide it over. Now, said Mid, with the air of one who has invented something new under the sun, take this broom and put a magazine on it, then put the cake on top of that and if they ' re careful and have a good sense of balance, they ' ll have some cake. Betty held Mid ' s feet to be sure she would not fall out the third story win- dow. The cake was removed and a note came back on the broom. Thanks, Ola read. Have you much more like it? Oodles and oodles she replied, leaning a perilous distance out the win- dow. If I had some ice-cream I ' d have a feed. I dare you to go down town and get some. I dare you. ' ■ ' I dare you. We ' ll have a feed at nine and it ' s only half -past seven now. A few minutes later two figures dres- sed for the street and enveloped in bathrobes with a pair of shoes under their arms, crept silently through the shadows in the hall to the bathroom where a window gave access to the fire- escape. Here they threw off their bath-robes, exchanged their bedroom slippers for shoes, and put on tams which they had taken from their pock- ets.

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16 VOX COLLEGil THE BEGINNING OF MAN and also WHY WE HAVE COLD WEATHER Once upon a time, long, long ago, the sun and moon us d to shine all the time and there was no cold weather. But there was no-one, either, to enjoy this lovely weather, so the Sun god said What ' s the use of me keeping the sun so hot when there is no body to enjoy it. 1 must speak to the Life-god. So the Sun-god went to the Life-god and asked him if, seeing that he had al- ready made trees and flowers, and plenty of animals and birds, who lived hy k.lling each other to his great dis- gust, if he could make another type of life who might rule over these other things to a certain extent. So the agreeable Life-god heaped a huge pile of flowers up (because they breath out oxygen), and poured on a great (juantity of water, and then he asked the Sun-god to shine on the heap for a period of tim3 that would equal about nine or ten months of our reck- oning. The Sun-god was rather mysti- fied by this request, but did so. At the end of this time, during the last week espec ally, the heap of flow- ers grew smaller and smaller until it eventually stood about six feet high; and then it started to contract and ex- pand rapidly. At this the Life-god be- came very excited, and jumped around a lot, and kept pouring more water over it ; and th n one day he repeated madly over and over again : With monkey ' s form, but beauteous still. Become the lord o ' er vale and hill; With the brains of all my beasts com- bined ; Have more than all their 1) rth and kind ; THE HONOUR CLUB EXECUTIVE