Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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6 TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD. the songs learned were :, — True till Death, Gatty, arranged for four voices by Batchelder ; The Men of Harleck, always a favourite; Arthur Sullivan ' s Oh Hush Thee my Baby, Barnaby ' s Sweet and Low, and Auld Lang Syne, set for four voices by Henry A. Lambeth. Contrary to the experience of former years the weak point in the club this season has been the scarcity of trebles, and this was very much in evidence in several of the practices when the efforts of the basses and tenors would quite drown the soprano parts. The club however has performed its function of affording a means of recreation to the music loving boys of the school, and thus has well justified its existence. be ZiKlk. IT MAY be of interest to some of us and also the Old Boys to know something of the history of that much patronized and wholly indispensable institution, The Tuck. Like all great and noble works of man it had a small and insignificant beginning. One fine ofternoon in the Fall Term of 1885 four youths of this seminary of scholastic attainment were returning, (let us hope they had leave), from a rendezvous on the pier. They were, as per custom, ravenously hungry ; they were also, contrary to any known custom, possessors of a few stray coins of the realm ; these they natur- ally wished to rid themselves of as soon as possible. After a brief consultation it was decided to visit one of the near-by farmhouses in hope of procuring something eata- ble. As luck would have it, a field of pumpkins belonging to a certain Mrs. Philp was near. The sight of the golden fruit ( ? ) was very suggestive, so going to the rear of the house, they knocked upon the portal thereof. They were received by Mrs. Philp in person, who. on learning their pitiful tale, consented to lay bare the contents of her larder. This consisted principally, as they had hoped, of pumpkin pie, which, owing to the famished condition of the aforementioned gentlemen was devoured with great avidity. Then, effervescing with pleasure — and pumpkin pie-— they returned to the school and spread the news among their comrades. The tidings were received with joyful demonstrations, and others in their turn lost no opportunity to further their ac- quaintance with Mrs. I ' hilp. Owing to the inconvenience of having to discuss the delicacies in the open air, especially in the wi.iter, Mrs. I ' hilp fitted up a room for the accommodation of her customers. This permitted of a more extensive menu, and from time to time welcome additions were made to the bill. From that time forth the Tuck flourished until it became the establishment it is at the present day. Let us hope that for many years to come Mrs. Philp will continue to allay the pangs of hunger for T. C. S. I

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TRINITY COLLEGE SCHOOL RECORD. 5 but from first to last he won keen and enthusiastic applause. Mr. Smik-y his the ad- vantage over the ordinary [)ul)lic reciter in that he is a musician, and is possessed of a pleasing baritone voice, and these gifts he used witii much effect in some extremely amusing musical sketches, which were, perhaps, the hits of the evening. Should he visit the school again next year, as we hope he will, he may be assured of a very hearty welcome. Z K Mortbinoton riDcinoiial. ON .Saturday, March the 131I1, Colonel and Mrs. Worthington came down to the School and unveiled the tablet they have had set up in the Chapel to commemorate the death of their son Asheton. The Service at which the ceremony took place was the usual Evensong at 6 o ' clock. It was perfectly simple and quiet ; the prayers approi)riate to the occasion can hardly have added more than a minute or two to the length of the service, but the effect was very impressive. The brass is very handsome ; it is shield shape, mounted on dark oak of the same pattern. It is the tablet which appears in this number of the Magazine on the north wall of the Chapel Interior. The inscription is as follows : — Sacred to the Memory of AsHETON Norrevs Worthington only . nd beloved son of Lt. Colonel Norrevs Worthington AND May Worthington Born Aug. 14, 1890 Died June 23, 1908, Entered this School Sept. 1905. Deeply Lamented by all his Teachers and Schoolfellows By whom he was held in affectionate regard. He is not dead, the boy of our affection But gone into that School Where he no longer needs our poor protection And Christ Himself doth rule. be (Blec Club. The Glee Club was organized early in Lent term under the leadership of Dr. Petry, and, although we had no school concert at the end of the term, a very fair amount of interest has been shown by the members, and considerable progress made in part singing. Practices have been regularly held in the Speech Rooni twice a week, and among

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TRINITY COI.I.KCiE SCHOOL RECORD. riDv Ibawl; ' Kill. IN A PRhVious number of the Rkcord mention was made of my hawk Bill, and if the writer of that article will communicate with me, I will send him a copy of the book I intend to publish in twenty years or so entitled Birds of Canada. The chapter about the red-tailed hawk refers to Bill, and as he spent three years in T. C. S. you may lind space for him in the Record. The first time I saw him he was flying over the woods near my home in Newcastle carrying a wild pigeon in his claws. I fired and broke his wing and the pigeon flew away. I took him home and applied splints to the broken bone ; in a month he could fly, and during that month all his wild nature disappeared ; he sat on the back of the car seat when I went to Port Hope, and he made his first appearance at T. C. S. on September 19th, 1875. The first night he was put into a room at the back of the Head Master ' s house. I did not notice a big black cat in the room because it was dark, but in the morning the cat was dead, and half eaten. Bill looked very proud and his crop was full ; when hungry he aUvays made a noise like the squeaking of a mouse, but when his crop was full his voice sounded like the grunting of a pig. On one occasion I saw him carry a piece of bread in his mouth to the room ; as he never ate bread I watched him through the window. He put the bread on the floor and llew up to his perch ; for half an hour he did not move but kept his eyes fixed on the bread. Then an excited look came over him (he always raised the feath- ers on his head when excited); I looked down at the bread on the floor : there were two mice nibbling at it ; they were so close together that the hawk caught them both in one claw and carried them up to his perch, where he spread out his wings and tail and devoured both the mice. On two or three occasions other boys witnessed Bill enticing mice from their holes with bread. I used Bill ' s room for stuffing birds, and several of the other boys took lessons from me. One day we missed a stuffed bird and Bill proved the culprit. I offered him some meat, but before eating it he opened his mouth and ejected a round ball of feathers about two inches in diameter ; it was quite dry ; we tore it open and found that he had digested all the quiils of the feathers and the skin ; in the centre of the the ball were the glass eyes. It was fortunate that I had not applied the arsenical soap to cure the skin, otherwise Bill would not have lived as he did to amuse the T. C. S. boys for three years. I had him for five years after I left the school ; he was then accidentally shot by a sportsman who did not know he was a tame bird. I stufT- ed him and he is looking down at me with his glass eyes as I sit in my surgery writing this account of thirty years ago. Alfred Farncomb. G. T. Hamilton is a Lieutenant of the 33th Battery stationed at present in Ireland.