Viscount Bennett Junior High School - Terminal Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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asi bans ' - ' ?• irsm h vli vfto l . ■ ■ sorsr-r-l :• r: m:io ?7.Tt ' 7. ; w •• • : m ' ir,r : ■ ■ ' . shi 1 - •: ..i . :??! .tv-T-; . v. ’i ..But after two months of songs and laughter, ,,,;They must - get to work or be .sorry after.; .For the snow and the cold are.on their way Iq get rid of Miss.Summer bright and gay; . .She ' ll just have to. go and come back next year, .. An,d we ' ll, all be waiting with hearts of good cheer. . ' 1 ..... .’ . Leslie Withecomb . ! ■ ■ 9-1 . JUNIOR HIGH | gnxq-ier. »A - bn-‘ : il... SHORT . STORY Dorothy Watts (9-4) :c ...THE , BLIZZARD.... 1 ..srjflVifiAlcfa were hurled down ..everywhere over the white world. The. broodingwas biting, and bitter and it. .carried flocks of frost with.it. Threatening; and flowering the wind tore and ripped at the broad white expanse. A small, poorly-ciadj idedly smaller figure - a small: Igure had a look of determination! : ±q her ‘ e 1 and an air! of persistence, in he! each ' iiifnd avtra.Y(b ' nn with ' ' en eAter end . „ 9 t ...... ,„ T . .,.ep.. ' ., ' She stumbled a good many times .but each time sprang up with .greater, resilience than before. . . - . •• Lucy knew that she had to get Jimmy, her small brother, to a doctor because pneumonia was a killer has had been proved by the death of her mother and father the night before. . Jimmy. ' s. brown eyes, deep with suffering were pleading and they cut like a knif ' d at ' hen heart. The- night was coming on shadowy and dark. A snail farm¬ house could be seen ahead and Lucy half-walked, half-ran towards it. A bright light shone, out fran each window in the house. Lucy ! s : fingers, numb with cold, .were, aching and ' ' she ' iias Ihriodhc ' tn lav rfown hor srna.ll h’n’rH.p.n. The doctor, 1 S house must be about. and ' sherfras. l brigihg. ' tq. ' lay down, her .small burden four -Miifsf ' ; frcm. ' here. 1 V ' ' .- .. 1; . L ' oy .fa ssu ' - . cnens ' ' ?.. ••• l ' heial|jbi , h ' ac|ibd jihe fannhouse and knocked, on the door. Again, and again she knocked but r hd ' respohsfe. F ' ih .liy the dopr . opened,! .and Lucy, could see that the occupants were 1 obvic d 4 ' TKyiirt ;!b vjtfyyi, j jf time... .A stout mea.niq.pkd!ng woman had come to the door.,-.-. Lucy stahtfi . expjla r ining. her,, plight but th e door had been . ' .slammed in her faceLucy . re ei bji ' xbie, bor ' step for a while, Jimmy,. she. kne-Vj. ' was .fairly warm and it wasn ' t.’! too much farther 1 ' .bhe th.by.ght!. The tears’were, stinging in her eyes and blinded her but . she stumbled ' aHiad l She walked : lt. seemed .for hcurs, her brain, overcome by a drowsiness,, ' overcame hep .and hii ' e ' lay, down in a. snowbank where, she was found the next hay. by her res ' cudhh - dead. J ' One hundred years away was the doctor ' s bungalow. A heavy fog had descended and visibility was almost nil. Lucy had died seemingly without cause but she gave her life .‘1-J:. . ' i.-. •f. ' T- ‘v . f,r, - •- .tri 4. •{ ■ nr, . • • •. V ' ■: .nri . •: fto ' ■ ' Si.’.: bein ' -.. - i ;