Winchester School - Oui Dire Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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UUI- I. JIRI2 Hi the first time I had been to Virginia, It is a lovely country with mountains and hills all around. My brother had a horse for my sis- ter. His name was Peter, but she did not like him. I-Ie could do some tricks about which I shall tell you. I'Ie could lie down and play dead, and pick up a handkerchief, then he would twist his feet and turn around. There was a box with a board sticking up and a place for his loot. lfle would stand on this and put one foot on the stand. My brother got this pony's brother for me to ride. I'Ie was smaller than the other one, his name was Peter, too. One day when I was riding with my brother around a ring. I was riding I.ittle Peter and my brother was riding Big Peter. All of a sud- den Big Peter kicked Little Peter. Isle stopped short and I went oII, but I did not get hurt. My brother thought it would be better for me to have Big Peter, because he was a better pony, so I did. Uh! I forgot to tell you, Big Peter's name was Peter Piper, and Little I'eter's name was Peter Pan. H. H.. '23, MY DOLLS. I have five dolls. I like my wooden one the best. I'Ier name is Dorothy. I sometimes take her out in her doll's carriage, when it is not taining. Sometimes in November I take her out, when there is just a little bit of snow. I put on her woolen hat and coat. Last summer I took her with me. I carried her in my arms. After we came home she fell out of my arms and broke, and that was the last of my doll. F. B., '24. PEG AND I. I once had a stockinette doll named Peg, when I was about three and a half. Now that I am seven, Brother has her. I did not know what to do when he took her away. Wfhen he eats what he calls his Hdubbinsf' he puts her beside him. BI. L. I., '2.I. MY BIRD. One fine day I was washing my bird. I went 10 get him some seed, and when I came back there was no bird to be seen. I went on with my lessons, when I heard a little tap, tap, tap on the floor. I looked around, and there 5t00qI my bird. D. E. R., '24. MECCANO. Bleecano is a wonderful toy. You can make jib-cranes, autos, signals and so on. I am just making a jib-crane. lt can hold six or seven pounds. I made an auto April 25, IQIS, and lost two nuts and bolts out on the street. I. I. IT., '24. BUTTERFLY HUNTING. I was out bnttertly catching with Mother and Mrs. liigelow. XYe were walking along looking up at the trees to see il there were any buttertiies. For if a sapsucker had been there and lett sap running out, we might see a but- terlly. XYC saw an angle-wing and threw small stones to scare him. I just missed his head. IIe tiew away down among some burnt bushes. Irie landed on a rock. XYe walked down where he was. I ran past. Mother and Mrs. liige- low came walking along. tJhl there he is! Mother called to me. Mother was carrying Mrs. Iligelow's net. Mother put the net over him. Mother called me and said. Ralph, here he is. XYe have got him. Then I came up. I put a drop of gasoline on his head with a dropper. Then he died. Mrs. Bigelow gave him to me. R. R. Il., '2.t. MY LITTLE COMPANION. I have a dear little doll. I'Iis name is Fred. Isle has been nearly every place that I have. I.ast winter he went to Pasadena, I.os Angeles. San Francisco, and all over California with me. But one day. sad to say. I was carrying him on my head and he tell down on the tloor and broke his arm! XYhen I am back I will send him to the Dolls' Hospital and have a new arm put on him. I'Ie shall soon be well again. E. li. -I., '24, MY PONY. My pony's name is Prince Charming. My pony is a chestnut sorrel. Ile is very pretty. I'Ie can open the door oI his stall. lIe is about six years old. I ride him in the summer. but in the winter he is too trisky for me to ride, so I get somtbody else to ride him. In the spring I go out into the park with him. I have had him about one year. One day I was playing in the ring at the rid- ing academy with some others girls. The pony

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So OUI-DIRE 1-111511 Ullltl' 111111 they l1111'1ke1l as if they 1vere talk- THE FARM. ing, then they 11111 their heads 11n1lcr tl1ei1' wings, 111111 Ill-191' 11whi11- they l1e1v ll1Y1ly. Then they canie llltfli 111111 went into ll l.1ir1l h1Q111se, then they 111111111 L'1JlllC 1,1111 a111l 111111 their heads at e11cl1 111111-r. 1. Klee. 33. MY DOG. l l1llYC ll little dog, l1is llll1'llC is Sunny. 11'hen 1 c111ne 111111111 111 11re:1kt11st, 111 is generally bark- ing 1111tsi11e. 11111011 I get Illy l1at Zlllll coat Oll to Ctllllk' to scl11.11.11, l1e 11l11'11ys 11lll'liS Elllfl jtnnps up 1111 ll1C,lI1'CZl1l9L'1lC 11'1111ts to conie to sc11ool. 11'l1e11 1 go 11.1 get llly skates, l1e tries to lick 111y face. hXillL'll l go 11111111 111 g'ylllllllSlLl1'll 111111 over to li1'll1'lIllllIl'S, l1e is always waiting for 111e. He al- ways XYIlllls 111 CUIIIC 11111111 111 s1'111'11'11 tor 111e 111111 Q11 eve1'y1vl1ere l go, llc likes Clllllly and always wants ll piece. Une Sllllllllj' AIHIIICI' was stztnding talking 111 tl1e gate, when Sunny ran after 1111 l1LlIOlllO1JllL and got l1is paw hurt, 11111 it was 1111 right i11 il Iew days. S l 11 72 ONE DAY IN WINTER. Une tllly 111 winter when the snow was on tl1e g'l't1llIltl, llly little l.I'lQI'ltlS and 1111' sister llltltlgllf we 11'1i111l1l niake ll snow 1111111. lfirst we lllllillf Il little l'I1llll1l 111111, then we r111le1l t11e hall along t11e gr1'111111l 1111til it was LL large 111111 111111 tl1is was 11is head. 'lihen we got s111ne thorns for his eyes lllltl nose. 511.11111 we 1n1111e 1111111111-1' large hall for l1is Sllflllllfll, tl1en we n1111le l1is legs Zllltl 1ll'lllF- 11111 111 SlllIXV, and put lll 1115 1111111111 ll pipe. Un his he1111 we put an 11111 hat 1.11 lllj' sister's. The next 41211 w11e11 I 11'111ke11 11111 111 the wi111l11w 111 11111 I l R, was 1111 1111' 1 . 1 n A DUMP IN A PONY CART. ' 1 was w1tl1 Klother Sllltl .Xunt Nelly in 111111- 1re1ls pony cart, 111111 his 1111111' 1lIlll1Cll liClll.llY 11e were gmng Ill see ht111' Il I111'l1'-Z11'l'1' l1el1l of 1'11rn was getting 1111: :11111 as we went along we saw NUIIIC lJlllClilDL'l'l'lCh. XYe picked 111111111 11 :11111 ll half llIlNliClS full. I1illL'll we were going 11111, iust as llea IIC HIV l'CZl1'l1Cfl the 1'11:11l, we 1vent intoia ditch 111111 the cart, l1l11ck11err1es, 111111 C1'C1'1'l.lllllL were tlIllllIJC1l, I lf l.JlllQ the pony, ll. li. 13. '23, XYe have Zl farm 1101 far away from Pittsburgh. It is Ll very pretty place, and it has a lovely look- o11t from every side: on one side it has a wood, 1111 tl1e other side it l1as gardens of Howers. 1Ve have lovely ponies. 'NYC have 0116 I like to ride U11 hest, That pony's 11an1e is John. He is a hlack and white o11e. Once I sat too far 011 l1i111 a11d l1e kicked up, but I did not fall off. tlne day when it XVZIS ti111e to bring the hay to the barn, n1y 11iece a11d nephew rode to the tielcl 1vitl1 the H1611 and when they l1ad cut all the hay 1lown an1l put it into tl1e wagon, we got O11 tl1e hay wagon Elllfl rode l1o111e. By this time it 1vas growing d11rk a11d we 1ve11t in for dinner. M. T. 123. TWO BIRDS. Yesterday wl1e11 I 1vas looking o11t of tl1e dining rooin 11'indow, I saw two birds O11 tl1e grotind. I did 11ot know what ki11d ot birds they were, 11111 I watched tl1e111 for a while. T111-y were l11'11w11 spotted with black. I could not sec tl1e breast of o11e. I s111v the other one's l1r1-ast. It was yellow spotted with black a11d illltl l1e had il black 1l'l2ll'li across his breast. His beak was IOllg. After Il while one of the birds tlew away. When she Hew I could see white on the edges of l1er tail, I did not see where she Then I w11tche1l tl1e other one. It soo11 be- to rain a little and l1e new away too. I dew. gan - c111111l not see where l1e Hew. I did 1lOt see them again. N. L. S. '23. A MEADOW LARK. Une day XYllL'll I was playing, I heard a bird singing. I looke1l flllll looke1l. hut still I co11ld llllf see l1in1. 'lll'lL'll I looked 1.113 i11 a tree a11d just 111e11 l1e Hew into Il lield. Catherine and I went over to lUOli at hin1. He l1ad a yellow l1l'L'IlSI 1vitl1 11 hlaek niark just below l1is throat, 111111 he 111111 a IJYOXYII tail with a strip of white on it. Mrs. Ilrooks was walking down street, 111111 she told 11s wl1at it 1vas. Every 11lOl'l'liI1g 111111' hc lights o11 one of the trees 211111 sings for us. hIOlltl11y I heard llllll an1l his mate singing hack and forth to eacl1 other for a long while. G. C. '23. MY .EASTER VACATION. ln 111y Easter vacation I went to Virginia to 1'1s1t llly brother. I-le raises l1orses. It was N

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S2 OUI-DIRE was galloping. and all of a sudden I went off. but I did not know I did it. I went oi-t right over his head. M. E. B.. 24. A POLLYWOG. tlnce we had a pollywog and some gold fish. The nian we bought it from said that some day we would find it under the piano croaking. but we did not ever, IYC had it for a long time. but still the feet did not conie nor the tail go away, but the gold fish ate the pollywog's tail oft. llnce in the summer we put a little piece of wood in the bowl, and the pollywog kept jump- ing up and down. Once it jumped up and the window was open and it jumped out of the win- dow and we never saw anything of that polly- wog again. F. T. S., '24. OUR BOAT. Unce we made a boat out of barrels. It took four. Then we nailed four boards together. The boards were thin. My cousin got on for the first time. Ile was sailing line, all dressed up, then all at once it broke. I do not like to tell you what happened. M, H., '2.t. MY PET. One evening just before supper, I was sitting in the library playing on the piano. My father came in smiling. I jumped up to give him a kiss as usual. I stopped! for there was Father's linger stretched out, for on it was a bird, a real Poll Parrot! I ran upstairs to tell Mother. She did not look pleased. I said, Mother, are you not pleased? She laughed and said nothing. Then I went down stairs. I inet Father going into the dining room. I sad, 'AIYhere is l7olly's cage? Ile said, Come with me. Soon we came to the back porch. There was I'olly's cage. She went in nicely. XYhen we were at supper she began to talk, which made us laugh. Now she talks all the time. E. il.,, '2.j. CRABS. Crabs have eight legs. They have eyes that they can put out and in, IX'hen the water is up, the crab goes under the sand and eats flies and sea weed. Mrs. Crab has wt-ak bands. li. G. McC., '25, THE LITTLE GIRL AND I. I saw a little girl Working in a yard. She seemed as if she was having a hard time and so I went into the yard and helped her hang up her clothes. She thanked me so much for help- ing her. HNever mind, that is all right, I said. I never forgot how that little girl thanked me. Her name was Frances. E. D. M., ,25. BILLY COON GOES CRABBING. Did you ever go crabbing? Did you ever see a coon go crabbing? A coon sticks his tail in the water and waits till a crab gets a hold of it. Then he jerks his tail out of the water and then eats the crab. F. IV. S., '25, MY LION. Katharine Jennings gave me a lion last June on my birthday. Mind up the lion and he jumps. I frighten my nurse with my lion. IVhen Bar- bara was going to put something in the waste- basket, the lion was behind the door and the lion jumped at her. She ran as hard as she could run. M. V. I., '25. MY MOTH. I am going to tell you about my Secropia moth. The cocoon was found in a park in Chicago, and was taken to the University of Illinois. There it was kept in an icebox for two years. Then it was sent to Miss Glasgow, who gave it to me. I kept it in my room for four months, and one day I found it a beautiful moth. The wings are gray, reddish-brown, rose, black, white. It has six feet. It has two antennze. F. D. nets., '25, MY DOLL,S SET. At home I have a set for my big doll. A wash- stand, a pitcher, a piece of soap, a brush and comb, a towel, a washrag and a sponge belong to the set. They have roses, pink and blue. C. 5. R., 26. MY TEA PARTY. I had a tea party yesterday. I had my dolls at the party and I had some lemonade and some cakes and I had my friends at the tea party. K. G. B., '26. S ': iam'