C(;HE julure Men and Women of lhe ~mpire Gte tboae who 11re to-day in lraining in our G/ementarg and Secondar11 Schook

:Buaineu and the variou1 Pro/Uiionl will h®e placu to fill for those who are competent and /uU of courage.

The real Business of Life begins in School and the Boy or Girl who is earnest and diligent will secure the best ·place all along the line.

Next to a clean, healthy mind comes a tidy well dressed body. As a Business Man's character is often read by his manner of dress, so is that of Boys and Girls by the manner in which they dress and wear their clothes.

We make it our business to produce Clothes of Distinction, Clothes that look really Good, that wear well and are moderate in price.

We want the Boys and Girls as our Customers right now and will make it our business to educate them in this important phase of life.

In addition to Clothes we also rull> a " Tuck Shop " on the first floor, where Boys and Gids can have the most delicious and toothsome tit-bits which everybody loves.

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D.D.SUTHERLAND Hairdresser Grantown-on-Spey

I MEMORIES OF STRATHSPEY.

:\ t home tbe hills with s nqw-capped peak,;, A. re towering in the sky ,

\Vhil e cl ow n their !?teep and rocky sides The little streams rush by.

The streamlets winding in .and out, ' .Mid bi rches, firs , and willo.ws ,

.-\.re carried by the' rushing Spey To join the foa min g bill ows .

Yentured h ere with a11 x iqus l~e ~ rt , · And found it to my mind,

But oh! I cannot qui te fo rget The hill s I left ce.hind.

To foreign lands I'll bid adieu And homewahl wend my way

To the clear glens and rugged bens That circle round Stra tl1spey.

i' M ARY S'l'I\1\LE.

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STORES - SAVOURIES - VEG ETABLES - FLOWERS .

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EDITORIAL. vVE would, at the outset, tender an

apology for t he m anifold sliortcqmings of this iss ue . It is our firs t at tempt a t pro­ducing a m ag azine , an cl conseque nt] y we t r us t tha.t t he reader wil l not criticise it tqo se \·erely , for, we fear , it is wh olly unab le· to withs t and s uch treatment. Yet, while we cl o not de ny t ha t it has many cleficic lJcics f ro m a literary poin t of vie w, we publish 1l in t he bope th at it wi ll no t be re cei\·ccl m ore co1cly t ha n it clesen ·cs , a nd t hat the p ubli:2 will g i \·e it a. trial. T he firs t instal­lnent is bouncl to s u1fer f rom th e \\'a.nt cf <:-x periencc, by wh ich we are h a.nchcnppe<l, a.nc] we are hopefu l t ha t fnturc ecli t ions wil l s h:;w a clecicled impi'o\'<:me nt on this ·.

It was felt thnt t he p up ils woul d we lcullle th t p ubli cat ion of a ma,g·azine in whicll t hey woulr] ha.ve a n opportu nity of . ex­p ressing any opinjcns which t hey mig ht entert ain on any s ubject and of bringing to lig ht Yerse or otheT composition whic/, nug ht p rove eit her am using Qr inst ructi \·c . T he prepai·at ion of contributi ons was also calculated to im prm·e t heir E ng lish ancl to p ro\· icJe a brig ht side to what mi g ht ot he r­wise l: e an u ni nteres ting subject. T he contributions , coming as they cl o from so m an y differe nt sou rces , ought to p rove ol intei·est because of their Yariety an c1 this may in some way comp ensate for the ir l iter ary failings . At this st age in t heir care-ers the pu pi ls cannot l:c expecte <1 to p roduce cl assical composition ~ ;, bat OIYin ~: to th e exuceran t spirits and the en thusias111 wh ich are generally found to pre vail in th ose who haye attained t heir early ' teens, t he predomi nating t ra it in their con tribu­t ions ought to be h um orous ; a.ncl in t hi s, we hope, \Ye do not fail.

S 2hool children's hum ou r may differ c::m­s iderably from that of achdts, bu t fqr that n :ry reaso11 it oug ht to appea l the m ore to t heir eld-ers.. JVIoreo,·e r what m an Qr woman ekes not look longing ly back on childhood 's clays, and where are their m emo·r ies lTLore re adily awake ned th a.n . am ong t he writings Qf t he younge r g enera­tion ? We a.re confident t he n t hat a book­loving p ublic will not dis app oint us by abstaini ng from pnrchasin g onr first maga-

zine. If a ready sa le be effected for t his edit i on, we shall be prom p tecl t q issue another , and a. m ore att ractive one nex t ye ar , for t his , as we ha \·e already noted, is c nly an experiment. v\Te shall not l~e cli s­a pp-o ip tecl , ho ll"e \·er, if it pro\' icles an

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e ntertainm ent or amusement t o its buyer~; , for it will ha \·e accomplis hed its pu rp ose .

\Ve arc fcrtnnJtc in bein g- a.ble to ~; ubj oi 11 a contnbut ion in b is happiest vein fr om Dr G ra nt, A.cl1n acoi ll e, wl; ~} has always ta ken a g re:. t i nterest in fhe litera ry s ide of t he sc ho.:1's ucti \·ities :-

l ' OOR P OSSY-C.-\T. ( .-\. l.I'J'I' f.J> l'OJ>l\I FOR Ll TT I.E FOLK ) .

.-1 h pussy-cat t hy big sad 2}Ts t o-cla\·

Re \·eal t h:c crush ing sorrow of thy hcnrl. : Alas how g reat thy gTief; \l·e kn qw ,s o well · Wh at all tn1e J on~ rs fe el when t/ ,ey lllii S!

p art!

How cft {! n little _ .Shag m1 d t hqu l><ll'<' r om p eel,

.-\ncl played at ball t oget her on the g ree n; X ow thou has Jest a faithful lovin g fri end-­

F or littl e Shag will ne \·cr m ore l::e see n !

T he bonn ic heathe r on t he hiJ: s may bloom; The m eadow fl owers ag 1in may g row as

sweet , .-\ne! ha.ppy b:rd s 111 1y warble in the woocls

But th ot: and litt le Shag; no m ore shall m eet.

D~; m ~ animals, thev s ay , can ne 'e r proclaim Thel.r hearts ' deep wces-t hey cannot

speak : ah well; 'T is t rue th at with their t on :-:ues i:1 1ey caJJ­

n·ot speak-But th ey ha\·c hearts th at [eel, nncl eyes

t ha t te ll !

Achn acc-ill e, Grantown-on-Spey.

ALEXANDER G HANT.

" I THINK we should tak ' a. walk cloon the toon .an' s-ee t he s h ops , wumman," said an Abe rclonia.n t o his wife .

"But they 're a ' shut," s he· replied. " D 'ye think I di clna ke n tl1at? I'm no'

ciaft rt'thcg-ithc-r, " he rc pl it<cL

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SCHOOL

As these notes must be completed at least five weeks before the end of the session, it is 1mpossible to include a cqm­plete summary of outs tanding eyents during the year. The senior pupils sti ll await the results of the Leaving and Day Scheol Certificate Examinations, while t he pupils who sat t he Qua.lifying Examination are in the same interesting position.

* * * * * * Two staff changes during the year are to

be reported . At the beginning of t he session Mr Robertson took o.ver the duties of Prmdpa.l English Master. Mr Jade, who had filled this post for seven years and who was held in high esteem by all, passed away after an iliness last summer. Miss MacRae, who had t au ght the Qualifying Class with much acceptance for ove.r ten years, left in November to be m arried. She was made the r ecipient of a wedding gift from staff a11d pupils. Miss Lawson took OYer Miss MacRae's duties, and Miss Cameron was appointed teacher Qf Class Junior I.

* * * * * * Th~ School H all has been transformed bv

its new coat of paint. It is hoped that the general appearance of the Ha.ll will soon be further improved by the erection of a dux board. The sum required to erect a suitable one is £so, and £27 l1ave already been ~ollected. In Decemre·r l ast the s t aff and pupils organised a Cake and Candv Sale, with the result tha.t £20 became Hail­able for the dux board fund. Up to date, the following haYe very generonsly augmented this sum :- Bailie Campbell, to the extent ·of two guiue1s ; Dr M'In tosl<, one guinea; Miss Gillies , one pound; Miss Campbell, t en shillings: Mr Frasu. Mon­cluie, five shillings ; Miss Hessie Grant, two guineas. As over t wenty pounds mnst; still be realised , the School inten.d to haY<~ another sale towards the end of June. It is hoped that the t ot al sum will then be snfii­cient for the erection of a dux board worthy Qf the Schoql.

N 0 T E S.

Since Easter a welcome innoYation in tltc· arrangement for Morning Prayers Jus bee-n 1,.

noted. The local ministers, Re\' . Messp; GilliJ,n, Cochrane and Rolx ·rts, haYe . ~·cry kmdly l ent their ser ,·ices and each, Tues­day m orning one of the tln·ee comes along to give us a five minutes ' address. Their sttbjects prove both instrncti Ye an<1 i ntcr­cstin g .

* * * Armistice Da.y this session fell qn a

Sunda.y. The staff and pupils met in t l>~ Hall, and a wreath was placed on the School War Memori2l. They proceeded thereafter to the Invera.J lan Parish ChntTh where the Silence was obsen·c<] ut Hl a Memorial Service held. A wre3th from the School was afterwards placed on the publi2 War Memorial.

* * * * * * An epidemic of influenza swept the <l is~.

trict in January. Few pupils eSCfl!)ed atHl the attendance suffered accordingly.

* * * ~: * * The responsibility cf maintaining onlcr

and good manners outwith cla.os-ro: ms has been underta.ken by the pu.pils themselves . Prefects have been a.ppointed for both g irls' and boys ' sides of t he School, and the . system giYes promise of being a: success. . .

* * * * * * The division of the senior pur<ils into th e

three Houses , Roy , Revoan, and Reva.ck, bas caught the imar;i nat ion, and it JS

already evident tha.t keen and healthy riva.l ry will add zest to schoo·llife o-enernll v a.nd t o the sp8rts section in pa.:tk~1 ar . Th-e colours adopted t o distinguish the H ouses are :-Roy, reel; Revoan white · Re vack blue . The respective H;use ca~tains ar~ Jas . G . Bruce, Frank Rcbcrts, an 1J Kenneth McCa.be.

* * * * * Dr Grant cf Achn acoille one of the

School 's vetera.n former pupils , has yery generously come forward again with prizes for elocution. The competition fJr th ese takes viae~ .s,bout the beg·innin~ of ,Tune

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when We hope for a k een a.nd interesting contest. Dr Gta.nt has even exceeded his former generosity by offering an add itional prize for the best original composition , either in verse or in prose.

• * * * * * Under the will of the late· Mr G. Har\'ey,

who was que of the Grammar School's m ost notable -benefactors , an endowment of s ix pounds' annua:l value h as been left for the provision of a dux m edal 'fhe full benefit of the endowment wil! not cc realised till next year,. from which time' onward a gold meda.l will be awarded to t he dux pup il.

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At the Music a.) Festi val in E lg in several it~cliviclua.) pupils compe ted this year, some with marked succesg _ Miss Youn ger entered a group of senior girls fq r Scottish Country dancing and they made a. very satisfactory appea.ra.nce, gaining a. first­class certificate. Tl1e School Choir, how­ever, did not gQ for ward this time, and the Cha.l!enge Banner which they won last year now adorns the wall of an Elgin school. It is hoped that enthusiastic efforts will be made in the future to regain this cq\·eted trophy.

THE LATE MR A JACK, M.A. TH!l de-ath of Mr Jack , a.lthough he hacl

bee t~ separated from us for almost a. year, could not but cast a da.rk s hadow over the school. A famil iar figure for so m any years in (~rantown and the school, to t he inter­es ts of which he dedicated himself ·with unfaltering and deYoted industry, he was compelled, in No,·ember, 1927, to return to his home in A vodt for hea lth reasons. Some of his pupils 'received letters from him right up to the week of his decease, full of the same exuberant spirit that \\'as so characteristic of his nature, an d of an intima.te friendliness towards themselves . The climate and conditions of his h ome village seemed to impro,·e his health, n11 <1 he looked forward eagerly to many more years of useful work. In July, I928, it was e ,·illent that the clis·ease, against which he

had fought so long , had gained the upper hand, anc1 in spite of the best medical assist ance, h e never rallied.

At AYoch Grammar School where he was educated, he was dux in his final year. Graduating with Honours in English at Aberdeen Uni\·ersi ty , after teaching in Macduff and Aberlour he was appointed E ng lish master in t he Gra.ntown Grammar School, where he wcrkecl so faithfully for 8 years-in la.te r clays often under mauy pl1ysica.1 difficulties-and where he itn­prcssccl us ail by his cheerful presence and his strong pcrsqnality. Always genial and inspiring, he won the confidence of many u back ward pupil.

He will be rememl;ered with affection by ma.ny old pupils-th~ pupils whose char­acte rs he helped t o form, while those wbQ were privileged to know him more inti­mate! y will neyer, cease to m ourn tbe Ios>: nf a clear and kind friend. ·

l\1 Y SUBMARINE.

When I get into bed at nig ht, I m ake bdieve tha t I

Am c aptain of a S ubmarine, Ready to fig ht or die .

B. M.

Right underneath the clothes I CI'C{' p, How dar k it seems to me!

I feel as' if I really were At the bot tom ·of the sea.

Of course, sometimes I come right up To get a little air,

Then clown again t q try and gi ,·e The enemy a scare.

When m other comes to say " Goo<l­night, "

She says, " \;V here can he be ?" .-\nd whe1; I sa v \\' here I lnYc bce 11

She only smiles at me.

· ]<>ll N R. SunTEES, P erm I.

6 C H.:\ Mi\.fAl{ SCHOOL 1\'L'\GJ\ZINE.

DUTHIL.

IT has been said th:lt in studying hist ory 1\'~ s hould begin with onr own house, con­nect ing ·it \Vlth past C\'ents , RllU t hence t taYcl down the street from door to 1\ocr. Though this m eth cd \\'DUld not exactly con cspcmd to that of the a\·erage bis tory k !liCher, yet t oo mu-ch st ress can h a.rdly be laid 011 tl>~ importance o f con­J:cx:ting our d ist nct wit h pnst bistory. Jn a similat· wav if we k n o\V sometl1ing of th~ hist<>ry ;f' a hnil<ling in o tn <li:-;tr ict , tln t pla.cc im·nriahly takes en. o. n ::w inte r­est for us .· S nd t lias hn!n my CXf:!Tienc~ cf n utl1 il I'~trislt Church.

The c huroehya.nl at nuthil has· beel l \lSC'<l a<! a bmying g-round since t he end of t h<: seYcnteenth centu(y . Many of t he old fla t , t:lble stones wen~ maclc of s late a.nd sti11 rcma.in to-day, thnugh ma ny of them arc cn:rgrown wit h brf. One fc<Jbtn' of t hese ol<l ~tones i:" the <·urdng an d in~riptions, of fine work manship, which. ha~ 5tood t he t<:st -cf tnUJJ y vear.;. The chnrclJya.nl, t oo, lw lcls m ore -0( the n ame o f G·r~nt tl1a11 any ot her in St raths pey.

The pre:.;ent church ic. a pbi11, whik, an<l comparat.i\·cly new huil<ling with leaded windows, and 11ear it a.rc t he t wo m a.nsolcmns , o ne of which has h ccn the hurying plac<.~ of the Seaficld fa.mily since t11e end of the scYcntccnth ccnh t1-:f.

rlat .Dnthi l Church was n et alwa.ys as i t is n o\\·, Sixb· vcar s ag-o i t \\·as a lq11g low thatch~c.l h;; ilcliu~, perhaps a. little la.rgt'r than the p resent dmrclt . Ins id<.' . t l'e fl oor \\'c'S of h ngc sla1)s of stone, a.nd ntH1erneatl~ , dead hm1it~s were often buried . The pnlp1t \\'as in the centre of the church , and the seats rose in s teps paraJle1 to- three of t he si.tles . On t he fou.rth side w;<s the d oot·, with t he g ullcry abo\·c it. The minis t er wbcn preachi ng facetl the door wa.v. O.ut ­s icle the presen t d 1t1rch is a st qnc hollowed out in t he cen tre, now almost oyergrown with grass. T his stone was ins ide the old kir k ~and was used as n christenin g font. A .. n ~ld story says, t hat a certain m:-~n of the parish h ad g one m ntl, atH~ •w~en ltc wns mud expressed his deten m n ab ou to drown

himself in t he ri \·cr. H is frienus for safet;-'s sake rut h im in the -church f or a nio·ht Ho\\·e,·e;· in the mort1i112: they b . ) ( ......

Ionn.l him dead, haYing drowned himself in the water in the font.

T he old Sc:::tch Sabbath was Yer y st rictly obsen·ed. Only " t he works d n eccssi ty and m ercy ," or illness, kept t he Highla lJ(] folk from at tending cl111rch. Jf the ministc.r missed {;ne of his con g reg atiou Qn Sunday, he wonl<l haYC paid the missing membe r a yis i.t before that week h ad been half spen t.

It must b<: rem cm hcred t hat church in those days \\'as tl~e meeting -place <>f relnt i\·es and friends. For the pccplc liw:d ;tpart, and newspap\:rs a.n tl letters were rare things. Thus the congregation assembled before the sen·ice, and sat ahcut on the gra\'cst ones t;H;.i ng . H was in this way t hat gossip and nc ws of the pat-is h <.:i rctt-. lated .

TlH.' s·:Tdcc l:cgan a:1out cle\'\!11 or e lt·\·cn­thirtv. Bcfu;·c it he g nu, however , t he l:en{llc , s too<l up and " g-a \·e t he cry." Tb~s was an interesting custom . T he l:cadle wcut up bctDre the· pt!lpit , a tHl read cnt any int'ma­tiGns. l t was he , an1l not the mini~ter, who read t he pro~lamatiuns of nmrri;1gc . . , If the:-<.: wa:-=. to tc a sak , he intimated the <hy fix<:cl and t he g-o:;tls t o cc sold. Ik also adn~rtised strav ilc1sts , and .f?.'' l \'1..' the owner tltc chance of .~edaimiug his lost prope rty. Clan summo11scs, too, wen: sent round in t his way. Fer insta.ncc, when the (;rants ratcted Elgin in 1821, because Lady J auc Gran t h!ld been ins ultell t here , W{)l'd 'YPS

sent r<lUJHl all th~ dmrches in the estate, a u t! t he news was ~i \·en i11 the head le's c rv. This means qf pnxlamation was so s t1ccessfnl t hat the first q uesticn that was asked at home waS--" 'Vbat was the cry in the k irk the day ?"

T he sen·ice proper fc.Jhwed . Fir . .;t came the E nglio:;h sen·ice. T he praise {)f the con­grep;ation consisted mostly of psalms . un­accompanied. Then the m inister de]iYered a senncn which lasted till nearly on~ o 'clock.

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~ext came the ( ;aelic s·encice .fur tbosc who " hau " 11o English. This was even longer than the English service, aml might lasc till aftt:r th.ee o'cw,·k. l.t ~va.; •cusLm­ary for those who knew both Fnglish and Gaelk to remain for both sernces. Clmrc!1 in those clays was 111cleccl a kngth)· a!Yair.

Howe\-cr, the tediousness c:f the ;.-c:·nwn­anrl it could not hut r;c tedi1>ns for von1w people a.t any rate-was relicn·d by ;,·at.cl~ iag the wood· p1gcons that nested in the t

1Iatch, and flew in antl ·cut of the broken

windows, g-reatly an!loyi ng the preacher hy attracting the attention of his hearers.

Xev·ci"thdess we may certalnh· sav that Sunday was the most e,·cntful tfay qf the week fc~- the hard working Highlander, and, church over, he returned home con­temp1ating another week's work and 1ook­iug forward to another Sund ay.

2\I. ?\. (~. J'ATF.RSON.

WHY H:\lT,STOXES FOR?II.

I11 it were uot for t!Jc countless hcsts et dust particles that float, scpm·ate1v · imis­iblc, in the atmosphere' then: coulr1 be no raindrops, s1ww cryst~ls, or lmilstonc;;. From a p<.'rf.ectly dustless. atmosJ1herc the moistnn~ would descend in C'<'aseless rain without drops. The clnst particles sern: ns nuclei about which the YUJ)::our gathers. The snow crystal is the most ben,utiful crc'ation of the aerial moisture, and the hailstone is the. most extraordinary. The hca1·t of everv hailstone is a tiny atom of dust. Such a;1 atom, with a littl·e moisture condensed about it is the germ hom which may grow a hailstone capable of felling. a man or sm8shinc: a win­dO\\". But first 1t must he caugllt up by a current of air and carried to the lcYel of the lcftv cirrus elands, :the or six. or en'n kn mil;s hi!th. Then, ccntinwillv o-rowiun·

.._, ~ b ~._,

hy fresh accessiOns of ll!::Jisturc, it begins its long plunge to the enrt.h, spinnin::> through the cloud;; and f!nshing in the snn like a chamond bolt shot. from a. rainbow.

The moon had risen Q'er the. hills of sa.nd, _.:,nd hathed the dty in silvery light.

It gleamed on the houses: on every hand And the tninan:ts nc;ing into. the night

On the sultan's pJ.lacce the m oonbeams shone,

c\ n d flooded the garden with pure white light.

c\nd tkep were tlN.: shadows across the ]awn, c\11(] the fcuntuins and pools were spark­

ling bright.

On the moonlit balccny stood a maid, .'\n e] the {.:O)tl light gleamed on her

coppery haii·; It lit up the jewels which gra.ced her head

And kissed her face which was g lad and £air.

llut why rlid f;IJe stand in the moonlight cold On the halcony gazing over the plain?

S.he was waiting her o-wn young Mussul­man hold

'iVfwm she: longed so much to sec again. A yvar ago he l1ad ridden n \•ay

Over the d<:sert to fight the foe, .And now \\"a" i"dnrmng, the , ·ictqr, nay,

Tbc hero cf all both h igh and low.

The princess waited his coming with joy, For now h~r father had given conscEt

To marry his daughter to· one, a boy Who hacl been his herald hefore he went.

At 1nidnigl1t he came o'er the <le~e-rt sand And the moonlight glanced on his flash­

ing steel, Hi~ snow.y plume, and helmet grand,

And tbe ma.itlen wept such j oy to feel. He dicl not care fo·r the pomp and migllt

That greeted him at the dty gate But soug ht ont his bride in her balcony

white \Vhcrc the scent of roses hung heavy and

S1Veet.

And the nightingales cl1anted with jsy till dawn

The fountrlins merrily tinkled and f'ang The trees l:cnt whispering 0\·er tl1e hwn

For the HPro and Lily their praises rang.

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TOM'S AEROPLANE.

I.

" I sa-y J ack," Tom Ja.cobs asked JJis young brothel· as t hey walked 1wme from school -one Friday evening, " did you hea r about the flight to India? " ":·.Yes, I think so, " r-eplied Jack cas ually.

I here was som etlnng about it in the papers a day or two ago, wasn't there? W hy? What about it?

" \ .Vell, I was just wondering--" '' Wondering what?" " I was just wondering--here do you

think it would be diffi-cult to mak~ an aero-

plane?" " ·what? Yes ! Do you mean--" " I only meant that perhaps yqu and

I--" " But it would never fly would it?" " Oh, I think it would. You see, I'ye

been thinking a.bcut it a ll week nearly." "~Tell it mig l1 t, you know." " It really O~tght to fl y . I' H: got it all

p lanned out an' everything . Of coHrs e i t 'll

fly !" " An' wher€1 will we go to when it's

made ? India? "Oh, we'll see," said T om , walki11 g in

at the gate of Ivy Cottage, " and re­member," he whispered as they entered the cp.en door, " you won't tell anyone, wi ll

you?" " No! Of course not! " replied his

brother. I I.

That evening T om and Jack: hastily rose frcm the tea- table without even excusing themselves , ancl rushed out to the back yard . Here , in front of the garage where M.r Jacobs kept his motor car , la.y a pile of things, evidently the material from which . th e aeroplane was to be constructed.

" Have we got everythin g then?" aske~l

Tom. " I don't know. Show me your list,"

replied J a.ck . Tom drew cut of his pocket a hu ge sheet

of foolscap, rolled it out , and in a. qnick business-like manner, began to read :­

Sledge, fly wheel (in ga.rage), wi re,

soap-box , ob long toffee tin piece of flint, empty match box , pet;·ol tin, old umbrella, fuel, etc., etc

" _-\.Jl there ? " he asked. · " Yes, all except the fuel."

·,i".~e,-er _mind it. It's in the hen-honse. v\ c ll get 1t 11·hen we are ready to fly tl1e 1nacluue. "

"Oh,_ I see. \ 'Ve' ll start then." I! I.

Later in the e1·ening the machine was completed. lVlr~ Ja,cobs came cut to call the boys in for the1r usual cup of tea before bed-time .

" Tom!" she shouted, " \!V here are you?"

"H h ere, mot er," came the replv. Mrs J acobs g lanced at the ro::>f ~f the hen­

house,. and there spied her two sons, view­mg w1th satisfaction the result of their labours.

" Good gracious, what in t he world arc you doing?' ' she asked. Ccu1e d~wn at once. vVhat in all the wcrld qf creation is th7; he~p of scrap iron doing up there?"

vVe 1e been bU!ldmg somethino-mother," said Jack rather timidly, as h~ and hls brother scrambled down from the roof. ·

" Building something!" gasped Mrs Jacobs. She looked ao-ain There was an old sledge, with a toffe~ ti~ nailed ~n. at the front, and a. petrol t in at the back. Two b1c?rcle wheel~ were fixed on at the sides, wh1le a.n -old umbrell a towered over all From the toffee tin , a. netwo.rk of wire~ radiated in all directions : some went underneath the sledge , through holes in the sides ; one dipped into the petrol t in and another was fixed to one of the wheels.

''My word, if' fa.ther sees that!" Mrs Jacobs roared. " You'd better haYe it down before he comes home from Edinburgh to-11101TO\v. ''

\i\Tith that, she went into the house followed by Tom, while J ack waited t~ shut the garage door . Just. as he was on his way in, who should appear but Frank the littl e boy who liYed next door. '

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" Oh, Frank, do you kn qw this? " cried Jack, forgetting what his brother h ad told him earlie r in the clay.

" What?" came, the· quick reply. " Tom a.ncl I ha\·e made an aeroplane." " What? _-\n aeroplane ?" "Yes ." " And will it go?" " Of •course it will. Come and I ' ll le t

y on see it." Soon J a.ck wa.s on the roof cf t-he hen-house again with Frank scramblin g n p after him.

"This is it, Frank,'' said Tom . "I'll show y ou how it works ."

He pointed b the toffee t in. "That's the engine . Look!" "Oh yes. " "It's just a t offee tin with a. bit flint and

an empty match box in it. Well, you put some petrol in the tank at the ba.ck there , and jnst a little gunpowder in the match box ."

" What?"

"Then you put the propeller g oing with this stick. The prope lle r will strike the flint and a. few spa.rks wil! la.nd on the gun­powder. Then--"

" Eh?" " Then you 're off, you see. It's easy

once you get off." " Gosh, I don't know if it would be very

safe though." " Oh, it's quite safe. " " Are you sure ?" "Yes, of course. " " 'Vel!, I must ha.ve a ' shot ' on it some­

time. But you'\·e no petrol or gunpowder, have you ? "

" Yes. · Tom got t hem. They're in the hen-house, at the back of the cloor. I must go for my tea though . I'll see y ou to­morrow."

IV. Tom and Jack were far too ex cited to

sleep after going to bed : they were t alking of aeroplane flights . Indeed, aHer some time, Jack ventured to ask his brother . to fly the Atlantic and so wtn world-\;Jde fame · for themselves. Tom was JUSt wondering if it would be wise to set out O·JI

such a jou rney 1d 1eJJ Mrs J acobs re tired t o he r room and the conYu sation was stoppc;J. K o sooner bad s,he entered her bedroom than s he w,~s st artled b ;.- a noise in the hen­hous2 S he opened tl;e clcqr and ca lled t h:·cugh t:J tbe boys ' rc-om.

" Tom, do you think there could be a fox ab:ll! t ?" s he ask ed.

" No, mother , don't be s illy ," replie<l Tom, jump :ng out ·of bed and running to the wind ow.

H e looked out. It wa.s not yet da.rk. He c:: uld he ~.r the hens cackling qui te dis ­tinctly, w he has til v threw on his clothes a nd rushed out with Mrs J accbs _-\s they reached t he back y ard a.n exc i te~! hen fie ~, out of the hen-hom·e doe r. Somethin !! moved on t he roof. -

" Mother, wJ1at's t ha t on the--"

Tom h ad not time to fin ish. There was a terrific roar which shook the whole hen ­h ouse, while an d el s ledge and other things ca.m e fly .;ng through the air a.nd land ed not far from t he hen-house door, a.nd only a. few feet from Mrs J aco;::6 . They hit the ground with a cra.sh aucl immedia.te ly burst in to a sheet of flame. _'-\ t the same time there was a noise of b1•eaking g lass and som e­thing he:1vy fell amongst t he hens in t-he hen-house. An other hen flew c ut at the door, bu ~ unfortunately la.nded in the mid, t of the heap of burn ing rubbish and was quickly killed and · roasted. The others made their way out at the little hole at the back, le d by the cock, cackling, wild, almost ferocious .

AIJ t his t ime T om and Mrs J a cobs could only s t a.re open-mouthed in amazement. When at last , Tom tried to s tammer a few words, his voice was drowned by the noise and clamour a.round Neighbours flo cked round from all directions, shquting a11<l ye lling, while some men who had hurried from the village wi th a hos e, set about p utting out the fire .

Jack then dar ted out . " What is it ?" he yelled .

'' The aeropl-an e , the aeroplane ! '' cried l'om , crawling in at the hole at the back .

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J us t as lJe entered the shed, someone darted -out at the door. \Vho could it be? Tom rushed out again, and there ly ing in t he midst of a p ool of water (evident ly dlsch :nged f rom the hose) was the figure of a li ttl e boy. H e quickly pick ed himself up howeYer, and Tom had qnly one glimpse of

.h im as he disa.ppeared am ong the cro·wd of people.

Ye,;, but one g limpse was enough. It was Frank. Wending his way among the people, that dripping-wet young rascal soon found Jack.

" Yes , why did y ou savr tha t thing o' yours was safe ? "

" It is s afe !" was the angry reply , " and besides you had nQ right to spend the g un­powder and all that!"

" It 's not safe . Just y ou--An' I fell tl1roug h the window in the roof an' ever y­thing. Just- - "

" Shut up, you big ass !" was t he pertment retort, "you haYe to get into the t hing- you 've got to sit on · t he soap -box belore vou start it, and then keep the pn­peller going with the s t ick wheu you're u:: , you f oo l! "

BER'i"IE MACK INTOSH, Clas s IliA.

DREAMING .

T HE fairy queen is p ass in g by; I see her golden ccach.

The bright fl ags in the breezes fly ; The bugle men approa.ch .

I hear the music shrill and k een, I hear t he fa.iries sh out ,

So glad to see their smiling queen On pleas ure driving out.

Dut now she fad es from s ight , alas ! And in her plac e, I view

T he wa.ving plumes of q uaker g ra ~s ,

And drops of sunny dew. M. CRUICKSHANK.

OUR T EACHE RS .

A wortby manne is our clomin ie, T h at f rom the tyme th at .be came here F ull streyte is he in his gouverna.unce T hat new in: ~d10 :J J there is no daliauncc. For scthe be is a worthy m an with ~ lle And Mr H unter do him folkes callc.

A m a.n the:·e is , a fair for the maistric That loves ccm ic plays and t ragc<lic Vh t h lokkes ·crullc as t hey were leyd in

presse, Of thirty ( ?) yeer of age h e is l g esse. And he is .depcd J. K. Robertson To Jy , ·cn in clelite is his wone.

A teacher is of Al:;erclee n also That unto Latin h ad cle longe ygo And for his learning and his g reete sport, And cr icket , g olf, an d tennis he cloth

cou rt . Scwn ing in greet rebuk es is hi s speech And sometimes does l1 e p ley a.nd some­

times teach.

A wyf is there of Nctbybri clge also And Frc nsh of P ar is is to he r well l~ n ol\:e .-\ nd it she spakes fu ll fa i re and fet isly E ntuned is hir n ose ful sem ely And if t o, hir you mightc say " Bonj our. " Full of delyte wo uld she be I'm sure .

With us t here is ~ teacher of Ph ys ic Iu all t his wo·rlcl ne is the re noon hir ly k Of e \·eri·ch action cl qes she k no w the canse Th e why and wherefore , Teason ami

beca.use And h a.rd ily she .is nat o,·ergTo\\·e An d l\Iaricl Grantc is h ir name. I t ro11c .

The re is :rlso a t eacher of Crantown An d her ydeped ise Connie Browne Of E nglish ,, Fren:h and Latin she k nows

m uch c' An d all of t hem she right well cl ctbe

t eache ; F er us is Jeye;·e haYe hir at the p iano pi_ay .'\ n d in much haste cloth sh e \valk al way

M . PATERSON au d D . l\1AcPmmsO'>'. (wit h apolog ies to Chaucer).

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THE IDEA L S CHOOL.

THIS schoql has, fi rs t of all, an idea l position. I t is s ituated qn the s lope of a hill, conunanding a Yiew of all the s ur­rounding dis trict. The building itself is magnificent, con sisting of for ty rooms, twenty-fi Ye class-rooms and fifteen, oth er rcoms. I t has a. kitchen, where splendid dinners are p rovided for these who canu ot gq J,ome, a.nd, op en ing off f rom the kitclJ..: n, is the ir d ining·-room . For the. tea,chers who han~ a.ny periods .off duty, there are t wu sitting-rooms , ·one fo·r the ladies and the qther for the gentlemen . These are t he only two room s, with the exception· of t he k i t­chen and the headmaster 's p riyate s tudy , wl1ich ·contain fires. A ll the res t are hea,ted by pipes a nd 1·adiators .

The p upils are , howeyer, also very lucky as rega.rc1s comfort. T here are nine com­mon -rooms. O ne for the g irls and boys of th e iufan t <;Jepartment; ·· one for the gi rls from dass ·Oiie to class fi ,.e · one a lso for the. g-i i·Js" of ' o ne, two and ' three Hig her Grade ; a.nd a special one for the se nior pupils'. Tb~ s ame is p rovided for the boys, although they are all smallet·, as their nu m­bers a1·e less tha.n these of t he g irls . T \\'o reading~:i·ooms a1·e also provided for Forms four to s i){ , in which lessons can be loqkell over, 'o1· '·{,,here fr.ee periods can be spent'. But the most m agnificent of all the r·oom s, if it might be called a motn, is th e central hall. T he whole school assembles every mornitig in this hall for p rayers , and to sing a verse of a psalm or hymn.

One would · almost begin t o wonder if any work is dotie in s uch a beautiful " m a.n­sion ," or if the pup ils go there t o pass a pleasant clay. E Yeryone , however , works 1·ery hard , but with no sullen hatred ·Of the teacher wh0 imposes the task Teacher a.nd scholar a,re Tega.rded , not as opp ressor a nd oppressed, but as friends working togethe,r . But best and kindest of all is th e head­mas ter. E very one loves him . No qne keeps s tronger discipline in the school, and yet no one does it in a. kindl ier way . It is indeed a sorro.w if any teacher or scholar has to part, but this ·very seld.om occurs

as eve ryone seems so contented in our "Idea l School "- whereYer it m a.y be .

D. M AcPHERSON.

INSPECTORS.

I did want t o \\'rite s·ome thing original, sometlu ng tha t n o one e lse would think of. But, as I haYe l:een searching for it for some weeks past a.nd have n ot fQuud i t , I haYe come t o the, co-nclus ion that wi~h so many cleYer people in t he world, s ubjects ha 1·e all been exhausted.

Inspectors ' vis tts are quite a common cccurr~nce. I wonder if anyone thqug ht them Important enotwh to write abotit be­fore. Perhaps t he Yet~y idea of them .. would p ut a writei· in panic. Let me t ry. T he gentlemen in question might l:e offended if t hey wer e ig nored.

T hey are really qu ite o.rclina.ry m en, except fo r their extraordill a.(y smartness . I 1\'0nder w:1at they t hi nk when they get ns at their m ercy. ·we a.re all willing enoug h to s how oa r cle ,·erness , of course ; bat I am s ure our knowledge must seem yery sm all b t heir la.I·ge minds . Still we arc not a lways mice ca ug ht in t ra.ps. You. mus t remember tha t t hey are ne1·er quite un­expected g uests . And we a.re often clever enough, wi th t he help ~f o ur teache rs , to anticipate th eir extraordin ary wis hes. ·

We too have our little joke . When they are gone they leaye us quite excited . En~ryo·ue likes excitement a nd the inspec­tors , it may l:::eJ clo not get ~ny out of us .

Another thing I must not forget to me n­tion is th eir manner of arrival. They do not ·come like mighty p rinces amidst the cheering of their people, nor do they come ltke conquering heroes at the head of a noble a.rmy. They arrin like Qrdinary motta ls , even subject to t he same incon­veniences of clela.yecl t ranspor t.

But nothing s tays them. Announced or una.nnounced they came-fly ing , riding , g liding er s t riding . I cal·e not. They came; they saw ; they conquered-or was it we who con quered ? We do not k now, but at any rate we are now free.

A.G. (Class VI .).

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THE MEASUREMENT OF TIME.

CI,OCKS, watches, and chron::>meters are the instruments chiefly used in the measurement of time, while hour-glasses and dials are occasionally to be met with but mme in the character of curiosities tha~ of time-keepers. The depsytlra was an­other-a very simple means, by which the ancients reckoned the passing o-f time. Originally they estimated the hours by the sinking of the surface of water in a yessel, as it escaped through an orifice, but later on the water suxface was· -connected by means of weights and floats with a dial plate and hand. In Shu.k:espeaJ·e's tragedy "Julius Caesar," reference is made to the striking of a dock, but the Romans had no such com·eniences, only dials, waterclocks and similar devices. We hea-r of severai attempts at clock construction in the early half of our era, but the striking dock propelled by wheels and weights, seems t~ ha.,-e been a pi·oduction of the twelfth century monastery. They first appeared 011 steeples in the fou-rteenth century, while in the same ·century Richa.rd, Abbot of Sr. Albans, invented one which, besides indi­cating the course -of the sun and moQn, showed the ebb and flow of the tide. l n :i:3 79 a clock, ·constructed by a. Germa 11

· called Henry de Vick, wr.s set up in Paris for Charles V., a-nd seems to ha.ve been a model for the next three hundred years.

" Then came the pmctical appHcati-on of the pendulum to clock-work by Huyghens about' 1657. The laws governing the ·\'ibration of the pendulum hacl been dis­coYered by Galileo in 1583 while he was

· s·t111 · a youth of nineteen, by seeing a Iam p s\vit'lging f-rom the roof of the cathedraJ i 11

Pisa. l'" •• Diiiihg the · sixteenth ancl seyenteenth ·: ... Cei:iturieS · the it:ngth of the sern1qn in

.- chi.t1:ches was coinmonly regulated by the · __ llou'i~glass, ari instrument whi-ch is still

tised 'for certa-in purposes at the present­clay. It generally consists of t\vo bulbs one placed above the other and connected by a narrow blue tube. The upper bulb is filled with dry sand, water, or mercury, so

as to occupy an hour in descending into the lower bulb.

The dial is an instmment of great antiquity, for it was kno-wn to the Egyptians, Chalclea.ns, Greeks, and a.fter the first Punic ~Tar to the Romans. It may be honzontal, inclined, or upright, but in every case the principle is to sho-w the sun's distaJlce from the meridian .py means of the shadow cast by a stile or gnomon on a graduated surface. The time registered by a dtal, except on four days ,of the year, is slightly different f•rom that of a well-reo-u­lated clock, but nowadays it is seldom c~n­sulted, perha.ps because it is: so. difficult to find King Sol in the garden_ The dial has found much favour, -however, as an orna.­ment in the :garden, for if situated amid pleasant surroundings and artistically set off it imparts a charm to the Yicinity which the garden-lo,·er may rea.c!ily ·appreciate.

The chronometer is chiefly of yalue to the sailor, and .is easi ly portable, being little btgger, and very sumlar to a watch. ·It differs· from the watch in that the escape­ment is so ·constructed that the ba-lance may not come in contact with the \vheels during the greater part of its vib-ratio.u. JVfarine chronometers usually be:tt every half-second, .and are hung in gimbals in boxes six or eight i11~hes squa>re.

At sea the day is divided into se\;e·n watches, beginning at tw.eh·e noon and each lasting four houa·$· ;except the two. do:g watches between four p.m. and eight p.m. which -were introduced to obviate the neces: sity of the men being on wa.tch during the same hours every day. This _ system ensures that those who haYe fqur hours rest one night will haYe eio-ht the next Time is kept by means of bells. One. bell i~ s truck at I2-JO, 4-30, 6.30, 8:,30 p.m., I2-30, 4·30 and 8. 30 a.m., and the clappet sounds once more than previously every half-hour until at n oon, at 4 p.m., ·mid­llight, 4 a.m., and 8 a.m., it strikes eight times. This arrangement so.metimes proYeS confusing to land-dwellers on their first ,-enture over the domains of Neptune. An

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old lady was OllCe undertaking a sea-Yoyage for the first time, and had opened cqnYer­sation with a. sailor during a quiet moment on deck . Suddenly eight bells struck a nd the sailor commented, " That's my watch he low," as he turned a.way. The old lady gazed increaulously after him, and you may be sure she spread the news about tl1 e sailor who possessed the wonderful watch for it was; the talk of several tables and th~ cause of not a li.ttl e bewilderment in th e saloon that night.

The watch was first invented at N um .. berg, at the end of the fifteenth century . It is now one of the commonest articles ca.r"ried on the person, and its great: adYan­tage lies in the ease with which it mav be carried about, for the clock is necessarily a stationary machine. The principal diffe r­ence between· the watch and the clock is that the wheels of the watch' are urged on by the force of a spiral spring of Yery slend~r dimensions, while · those of tlw clock are set in motion by the Yibrati on ot a pendulum·. Keyless watches con tinue b gain popularity and are ma.nufactured in eYei:-increasing numbers. L arge qu antities of c heap watches are nqw turned out by machinery .in Sw itzerland France Ger­many_, England, and the' United States, usually on the interchangeable system so that any damaged or worn part m ay be re· placed, without trouble, by an exact dupli­cate.

The . chronograph is l argely used in racing, and .is operated by the pulling of a string whereupon one of the hands makes a black mark on the dial. Schultze annli ecl electricity to the chronograph with\ t he result that it can now regi ster time to tl1e five-hundred-thousandth part of a second· Another. very useful instrument also used in races is the stop-watch whicl1 can l- e sto.ppe'd at a·ny moment but can only register.once at a time.

Dne importa'nt inyention whicl1 ens ures greater accuracy 1s the addition of a com­pensation adjustme nt by which t wo met als, having unequal rates qf · expansion and ~ontractio11 in qiff~rent t empera tu re ; , a.re

combined in the balance-wheel or pen­dulum. The one m etal counteracts t he other and the Yibrations are consequently the sam;. in any t em perature . :This an angement is especially useful in t he chronometer and \\'as perfed ed in Ij26 by H a.rrison .

The clock of the H ouses c.f P arliament, W estminster, was firs t set in motion in r86o and cos t £zz,oco. T he dial s are each 22j·{ feet in diameter, and the h our figures are 2 feet long , while tl1e pendulum·· m easures 13 feet a.nc1 ·weighs nea.rly 700 lbs; · The hour bell weig hs 13 t0ns and the q uarter bell s collectively 8.

In 1340 a m onk named Pet er Lightfoot m ade a d ock for ( ~ l as tc n bury A r bey with an escapem ent and ba lance. T he hour num erals are in t wo se.rie.s of tweiYe· each a ncl a. portion of t he di al, in th e centre , which ro tates e\·ery lunar m cn th shows the p hases of the ·m oon through a. circular ape;r. ture, while its age is also indicated by an index m aJ·k. Horsemen originally revolved in op posite directi ons aboye the clock when the hour struc k .

In 1541 a clcck, which showed t he phases d t he m con, r is ing a nd setting of the sun, and the m : tions of som e of t he planets,, was set u p in on e of the towers of Hampton Court Palace, but at t he p resent da.y the dial a lone rem ains . In Venice there is a clo::k \\'hich has a. blue a.nd <Yold dia.l .above wh ich bronze figuTes strike the hours o~ a ';ell On As-cension D;J..y , and dajly for the e nsuing fortnigM, Magi come. forth from a n apertu re between the dial and brQnze fi g ures a nd salute the Vir <Yin a:nd Ch ild

A pec uli aJ" clock d ating "from 1527 ex.ists at Be rn e . A cock c-rows three minutes before, ii>nn ediately before, and immediate­ly afte r the hour, while between the fi.rst t wo cries a p recession <Jf bears walks rou·nd a re1rd ::clman . Vilhen the hour is struck by a fo)l with a h ammer, the man ;raises a s ceptre, opens his mouth, a.nd turns an h ·;nr-g lass, a t e \'ery stroke on the bell, whil e a l:ear instantaneously inclines its head .

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structecl about 1352, the s~ond in the latter part of th e sixteenth century, and the third, after four yea.rs' work on the part of Cha.rles Schwilgue, was completed in 1842. The last-mentioned, l:esides showing ordin­ary time, shows phases d the moon, the passage· of the nea.res t stars QYer the meri­clian of the town, the month, and the day cf the month. A pre-cession, representing the ctays of the week passes in o-rder below the dial, and above, four moYable figures. repre­senting the different ages of man, strike on a bell the second stroke of every quaJ·ter. The first stroke of the qua.rten is struck bv a figure with a sceptre, while a. simil;r image turns a.n hour-glass at each hour. The hou.r is struck with a bone by Death, and o\·erhead at noon the twehe apostles pass befo·re the Redeemer, who acknow­ledges their courtesies by ma.king the sign of the Cross. While the apostles are passing beneath, a cock, perched on a tunet, fl aps its wings and cmws three times.

J. l\1. LAING.

CLASS VI.

We iu six are a grand old crowd, ··we're always bright a nd cheery,

Our teachers say we make them proud; Of work we're ·neYer weary.

Exati<s. for no-ne of us hold dread, Vile never dream of failing,

We're neYer longing .for our bed , Or on to dreamland sailing.

But at our lessons hard we swot, And never feel the strain;

But this is dreadful tommy-rot, For none of us has brain. .

A DUNCE.

E NGLISH INSPEC:OR-" Sandy, co-uld you gi\·e me an example of 'exaggeration '?"

SANDY-" Please sir, when an elephant is hanging o\·er a ·C Jiff with l1is tail tied to l'l

daisy." G. J. B.

PLUMBERS l30Tf:I.

'WHEN the Summer weather comes, A.nd the ViTinter frosts are gone,

Then the plumber's mate is happy, ·when he thinks of woTk that's clone;

Hardly any more to do, ' ·• And regular pay per week,

'While the master plumber searches Almost ,·ainly for a. leak.

All the worry of the work, It settles on his head;

H e bears responsibility, His m ate -just bears the lead;

So, if you're to be a plumber Ta.ke my ad\'ice; and wait,

Consider who· is tetter off, The master or the mate.

·Fr.ux.

THE PIRATE STRONGHOLD. . ..;.,

THE little gunboat, " Dari,l)g," came s teaming up the river. It was .tioonJ the hottest part of the clay. The " Daring's " du ty was, to patrol the river and see that no piracy was carried on. Suddenly, as it turned a bend, Captain .Henderson, the commander of the gunboa.t, was just in time to see a junk disappearing intQ a small creek. " That junk looks yery sus­picious," he sa.id to tbe; sailor at the helm.

He immeclia.telyord~red full speed ahead, and e11tered the creek' just as the junk di s­appeared into a dark tunnel a.t the . other end. The " Daring " follo.wed it, and soon OYerhauled it. TJ1en a stern battle beo-an. Capta.in Henderson took charge of "'the guns. One of the " Daring's " hea\·y cannons sank the junk. Afterwards a patrol of police searched t-he creek and found it to be a crafty pirate's la.ir. 'l:here were a few other pirate junks in the creek, but th ey did not put up a fig-ht. At a cele­bration aboard the " Da ring " that eyeping, Captain Henderson and all the ~rew were th e Jier6es qf the hour.. ·

A JuNIOR , Class Sen. II.

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GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZIN't;. 15 AN ADVENTURE IN MOI!OCCO.

'~lE le ft the Canary Islands about mid­night; ·and at sunse t ·of the foll owing day we came within s ig ht of t he coast et l\Iorocco. My chum Retty and I were members of the yachting paTty , which had left t he cold shores of 13-r itain for the sunny Scuth, tq escape the January frost and snow.

'Nheu th e coast was s ighted we decided to cast anchor in some sheltered inlet and to rentain thene for the night. The more adventurous spi!'its on boa.rd were n ot in favour of this scheme, and wanted to camp on shore, so that ·when the " grown-ups " were well away 111 Dreamla.nd some fiftee n young people (Betty a.nd myself included, of course!) s tole from their cabins and tip­toed across the deck to whe·re the y acht's motor boat swung on its: davits.

After much studiqus ca re it wa6 launche<l, and we were h eaving in a long swell. ~le had not dreamed of encountering the heavy ground sweJl of the shore , and before we kuew what was happe ning the boat cap­slzecl, and we were thrown ·into the cold blil'e water. Betty. and I had b~en sittino· side by side a.t the oan (for we dared n ;t use tl1e motor), and we managed · to keep toge the t, but los t sight of the others en­tir.ely.

Whea - we came to ourselves we wer·e lying on a sanely beach, under the dark sta>·-spanglecl vault ·a.ncl the silver moon­light flooding the ea.rth. Then the sound ot an approaching horseman sfartlecl 11s into the full ·realisation of our circum stances ·We were alo·ne in a stra.nge land amon~· wild desert tribes.

Suddenly the rid er, a. Moor, s wung into sight and di'awing rein before us exclaimed, "Crikey! What's the circus?" We a.lmcs t collapsed on the sand ag ain in our amaze­ment, but-before \Ye ·h ad time to clo s o om• f1ew acqu~inta.nce · started, listened, ' and without another word s wung us both h > his . saddle, sprang up behind, and we set off a.t a furious g all op . " Some l\foorislr devils after me !" he muttered thr-o·ug h his teeth, " Hang on ! "

The tribesmeq wen~ not far behind, atrrl

lr ad n ot the horse been of a. very special breed we would neYc r have esca.ped from our pni·suers , s ome of whom were on camels. As we swung round a. clump of palms we almcst "·ent heacllono· into some­thine- which was poised like a ;io-antic bird ..__, ~ b

ready for flight, the moonlight gleaming on its silvery wings and huge propeller. F ortunately ·our gallant steed savec1 us a second time , and sat down on his hind legs ,tt the sight, for being an Arab horse he was no't familia r with ae ropla,nes . As we dism ounted, there cal\l e a grunt from some remote cc.rner c f tb e 'nl a:ilc ancl from an­other quai'ter an F n,e l 'sh YCiC'c wns calling on his sainted aunt to ccrne an<] witness the_ scene. J~ut our fri end was not going to \\'att th e pl easure of anyl::ody 's sainted aunt, and dr:1gging us after him , he set off at a i'nn tQ tlie nw 2h:n-e. By th is time two sleepy a.\·iators ha c! appeared at the top of the ladder, and in a. worcl or two our friend explained t h" s 'tu ntion, wh ereupon the eng ines were s t a.rted, an cl IYC took -off with­out any more <rlo, ex cept that we• lool~ed back wistfulh- ;1t the poor old hor~e who was left behind afte r saving ns. We flew o,·er the pu rsuing- tribesmen mountitto· rapidly to avoid their bullets' and the~ k e-eping along the coast we soon observed th e rest of our party of miclnio-bt ~dven­tuers, bedraggled but al l safe, "'sound and bewildered at the sight of the 'plane. Ex­phnations came later when we assembled in the lounge after a. long sleep and were le : tu red, threatened, admonished and fi •1al1y pardoned for our exploit. Our fr;.end t urn ed out to fe a .British explorer whc:, disguised as a Moor, bad livecl among t re Moorish people till, having been put in v·ison for a. p altry offence he decided to "flit" and took IYith him a~ a keepsake the " Lamp of Pea.~c" from the Mosque. His e~ cape was discovered, l1e was pursued by n·.unercus Aral:s, and the · rest is already t c lcl. The aviators happened to be tracin"' a lost 'plane in the locality , and had put u; for the night in that most convenient spot .

This was onr first and very striking ad venture in Moroccq.

c. M. SMITH.

16 GRAMMAR SCHOOL lVIAGAZmE.

BETSY SEES A FOOTBALL MATCH.

THE hands of the Orphanage clock indi­cated ten nunutes past three as Sandy, the cltminutJye but dilatory fannhand-for he was still a haltiin - and Betsy Ann, his buxom protege, t ook up the'r station in the queue which was impatiently waiting to pass through the turnstiles cf the Black Park. Betsy, though a maid of t wenty summers, felt .anything but at l1ome in her present circumstances, for only a few days pre­Yious ly, after a life-time spent in and around her natiYe shieling had she been prev-ailed upon by her father to leaYe the still secl)lsion ocf the surrqnnding hills, on which he had for the last quarter of a centuryr tended his flock in 01·der to earn 'l

mere competence . EYer since h et". mother's death, while she was still attending the little country school which nestled on the hillside some four or five miles from he r home , she had ministered tq the m odest wants of her bereaYed father . Conseque·n tly, when she was at length instigated by curiosity to see the outer world she felt so shy and awkward that diffiden ce -overcame her lust for knowledge, and she remained at home.

Only prolonged entreaty, on the part of her father, finally induced her to under­take the journey to the humble cotta.ge of Sa.ndy's mother and there to remain two whole weeks for the express purpose qf enjoying herself. It may be readily inferred that the idea of such a fortnight held ·no attractions for Betsy, but qnce the noYelty . of the occasion had di ed away she became more COlJlposed and soon began t o assume an interest in her surroundings . She had, however, confined herself t o the cottage, occasi.onally venturing into the garden without bnt neyer beyond the little green g:<te . which gave access to the road. ):'hen on Saturday Sand_;; itwitecl her to accom­pany him to Grantown, doubtless thinking that she would .refuse as she bore a natura l prejudice agai.iist a ll th'ckly populated dis­tricts, To his snrp1·ise, howeYer, she

accepted his im·itation', and half-an-hour later followed him down the garden path and -out on to the road which meandered through the gorse rmcl heather to the little rusti{: station in the Yillage . NoiV Sandy was a football enthusiast, and as Kethy­bridge were clue to challenge Grantown in a League m atch that Yery afternoon, he repaired to the Black Park to witness what pi"omised to be a thrilling co·ntest. Where he went Betsy was also obliged to go (fortunately he was teetotal) a.nd we ln ''Y well imagine her uneasiness on findino- her­se]£ in the midst of a football crowd~ To her it was like coming qut of the mill-panel into the sluice.

The match was scheduled to st!pt at J.rs, and SeYeral players had already gathere:l on the field for a little p.reliminary practice when our worthy couple found themselves a Yanta.ge point on -the terracing. Betsy yiewed the proceedings in silence until• the referee appeaJ·ed and blew his whistle. She then inquired wha.t was the matter and was promptly assured tha.t all was well and that the match was about to begin. " 'Vhat's tha t ma:n flingin' in the air?" she .queried. '' A penny," came the ready response.

"Oh," said Betty, "an' has he naethin' better to dae1 wi' his money than to fling it abo_ot like that?" Sandy, ever willing •to enltghten her, proceeded loosely to explain, "That 's to see which way they'll kick the ba'."

The whistle again shrilled, and the ·ba.ll immedia.tely swung out to_ the Nethy right winger as his team had lost the toss. He ran up the tonchline and cross ed -in front of goal, the home keeper was ready and intercepted the ensuing header which seemed a sure counter.

When the cheering had abated Betsy again appealed to her guide for im explana­tion. "vVhy," she said, "did that fellow no' fling a penny tq see what wa.y l1e'd kick the ba' ?"

"vVell, you see, " said Sanely, "they o·nly fling the penny up once. 'rhen they kick

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ane way f::;.r three quarters o' an hoqr, a nd the ither way for the rest q' the time."

" An ' where are they try ing t o kick to?" . she continued in bewilderment.

" Oh, they '·re h yin' t o kick the ba ' in betwixt th e t wa. p osts at the end there , where the man in the green jersey is sta.nd in '," •2ame the rejoinder .

!\ 1\.ethy h alf-back had gathered the h o:::< cust odian's clearance and h ad passed to his rentte~f crward. The latter eluded the Gra'1-town pivot, but was frustrated by an opposing ba'ck who sent the ball once mqrc upfield.

"Th:;y'd g et on 111lt2h better if they k ept oot c' each ithcr 's way," n~nturecl Betsy. This actua.lly br-ought a. smile to the "o.]enm fea tures of Sanely, and necessitat ed his informing h er that th e men in the blue jerseys wer e kicking one way, an d the men i11 green an d white the other. A few minutes lat er some cleYer play by the Crantown fotwa.rcls res ulted in the first g ca] and led th e mystified shepherd 's daughter tq obser ve, " That's in noo, but t he po~r man couldna' help it. 'Why don't s ome o' the ithe:rs go 111 .an' he lp him, the lazy caricte:·s ?"

"There ma.un only be anc. in the goal," said Sandy. "Twa. widn a get on for trippin' on each ither a.nd besides ane micht leaYe a' the wark t o his mate . H oots man, a.wa' h ame an' wash yer breeks. " This last request was addressed t o a player who h ad missed ll> splencLd cha.nce to s·core, and th e above-mentioned article o-f whose rig-out had seen brigh ter days befo:re their owner l::ecam e associated with the puddle in th-e centre of the t]elcl .

·when half-hne arri ,·ed Dctsy watc11ccl w1th si.1spicion the exit of t he players from the field and expressed herself in the fol­lowing worc1s, " Xoo , I th :cht t hey were goin ' to kick baith ways . They've g one off an' onl y k ick·ed ane. V\Tell, what d'ye lTJ.ak' o' t hat ? Robbery I ea]] it-robbi n' h onest folks as paid their pence to see t he show."

" Oh dinna· be sae h ard on them Betsy ," Sandy 'rem ::mstrated, " they 're jist goi 11 '

ow::: r to t he club-house for a cup o' tea a n' .a piece. T hey'll be back in twa. or three ;n~e11its . "

.Betsy sa1cl n othing m ore until four minutes· h acl e lapsed and there was still n-o sign ·d the players. " Could they n o tak' b1ei .- tea afore they cam' off, the same's we uid , a.n' uo' h ad us wa.itin ' here in the c.c.n lcl ?" weTe her next words . "Besides," she cont inued, "I can drink a cup o' tea in le:;:; th1n a. m eenit. 'Twacl ta.k' me to be a fitb a '.er." Scarcely had she said these w Jr .1s ·.-.-h en the referee 's whistle again daimed h er attention and whatever th : ughts pa.ssed through her mind after the resamption she kept t o heTself, for Sandy had engaged in conversation with som e acquaint ances, and she was for the ·next h alf-hour entirely forg otten. Whe11 these y ~nng men at last mo·vecl . a.wa.y Bet sy wa.tched t hem d1sappear. Then, turning to ~.andy , she remai"ked, " They should r eaJly sbp pla.yin' noo, afc.re they get tired, poo1· cree turs . Anyway I think we' ll shift for [ 'ye seen enough for a.ne clay."

Sandy at first protested vehemently t hat th e game wou ld be fini shed in ten minutes hut ns it appeared tq be l ost a.nd won he finall y complied and escorted he1· from the gro:mcl, followed by the critical g lances of th ::;s~ spect : t ors it was his lot to pass.

THE NAUGHTY BUNNY.

L ?ST night before I went to bed The moon was shining bright;

I stroll ed aroun d with brother John Ancl ,sa.w a pretty s ight:

It ,,·as a. bunnv bold and bad­He ca.me , you know, to s teal;

VVe S J W bi tn nibbl e cabbage Je~YeS And make a hearty meal.

I s'pose we sh ould h aYe shoo'cl him off, Bu t it was quain t t o see,

Tht: little fellow sitting up, Just iike a child at t ea ..

] liMES C AT.DER, Form II.

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18 ClU\ MlVl i\R SCHOOL MA<~ AZ!l\'E.

THE CR.t\NTS OF STRATHSPEY.

GRANTOWN is the home·oJ th~ G·rants, and it is 11eedl,ess: to say that the Chief is pro.ud of l1is to,vn and clan.

· Were iwt,,th<; Grants famous in the far-oft clays when .they. 1nade a. name for th em­selves in the. -ne,·er-to·-be-forgotten Grant raid to E lgin ?

I haye hea-rd the following stcry told aJnongst the Grants which I think is well wcrtl;t I'epea.ting. In a. school, not one hundred miles from Gran town, there was a schcolma.st·er of the nam.e d Grant, who was proud of his name a.nd loyal to his chief and _clan. He was a. yery democratic schcol~naster, and he was feared and respe:ted by his p up1ls . i\.s was t he custcm long ago, the Dible lesson f.6rm ecl a Yery impo·rta.nt part oi the day 's curriculum in this j; articula;r s:h ool, and wee betide the schcla1· who . appeared without a con ed repetition of the Bible or Catechism.

On,e morning, as the Bible lesson was proceeding en a3 usual, one boy in a mis ­chievous mood seized his neighbou r's Bible a.}Jd,. with a clash c.f the pen put . a curl on an i-·changing the word " giants " to " grants ." Quite unsuspiciously the boy, who was mther dull., read from the Old T est ame nt, " And there were Grants in those days ."

"vVha.t," roared the m as ter, ·"repeat that again."

"Aucl there were Gi'auts in those clays," repeat ed the bey, t o the great m erriment cf the whole class:·

Up ma1·checl the teacher "·ith an angry sc:;wl on his face, as he thought the boy \Yas poking Inn ~.t him.

"Show me the place where y ou see that,,.., bellowed the m aster The unsuspecting boy, who \\'as wondering what all the row \\'as about, pointed to the pla;:e . The mas ter looked and saw quite clist1n ctly the \\'ord " (~rants . " There npon he saw red for a nwment, a nd t hen t h e greatness cf the <;rants calmed his angry t elllpcr, anc] he heard a small Yoice within him say " Why n nt?"

He syuat ecl h is sh.oulcle rs, h eld his heacl

up a little more proudly, and said " All right; next hey read , please ."

The r eal culprit h ea,·ecl a sigh of relief ancl his quick enecl hea.rt began t o teat m ore normally .

JEssrE FRASEt<, Class I., H .G .

MY FUTURE. As educaticn is to be the important tl1ing

in the futt;u:e I a-n,1 . t o go. thr.;:; ugh the Utll ­

,·e;·sity a.ncl learn a. part of eyerything. I will st).dy cleanliJ1ess in particular and mach inery, be:.anse I am aiming at be­comillg t he Chief of the Cleausing Depart ­ment.

I am at pr·esent studying a washing­machine "·hich will s2rub and wash the street . It is a n:ry compli cated piece of mac:1inery . Inside is a. large resen ·Qi r for lwlcling carbolic soap, Rinso, and L ux. The carbolic soap is . for disinfecting t he streets, the .Rinso fo.r taking the dirt out, and the LEx is to k eep the street from shrinking . AboYe t he soap reservoir js a still brger cue for holding the water which is heated by e lectricity . Before " Tl:e Cleaner " d oes its work, a. t raction-engine will gQ round with a large Yncuum-clea,u{!r --a Yery expcnsn ·e t hing indeed .

The olclmeth~d of puttin g the ashes in a dust-bin and waiti11g fer the cart t o come round is clone a way witb. Ins tead t here is a. large pipe running down the m idd le cf t he street into which t here runs a. specia l pipe from your grate. This sa 1·es_ the lab ::Hlr of carrying ashes about .

Vve also ha.Ye a motor-cart which is used to lift the stray caramel IJ'tpcrs and used matches .

If you have a cat er a dog cf which you m:tnt t o get rid, you need n et go tn the cxpen~e ·Of ge.tti11 g a man to do it : Y en just ask on~ of ou r cart-men aucl he pli•ccs th e a.nimal on t he electric ch air tehin t1 the ,-a.rt, and the trouble is ended .

Our men are all drcs:;ecl in whi te uniform , 11·i th white glc1·cs which are gJYen out n ew each day.

From the abo\'C~ you will see that my id ea of dcanline~s has re ~ chec] its fulfi l-ment. " ScAFFJE."

I:,rrF;RESTl.:\'G THINGS TO KNO\:\l AllODT FI.,OWI--:RS.

1. -THE D1FF1(RF;:-<T PAR'rs OF A FLO\VEn.

Few things could be m:;re interesting than the study of flowers. I3y this, I de; not mean a prolonged study of Botany--­one which, whe11 completed, will enable yen tu drstmguish one part icular 1lmve :­frcm the midst of .a few dozen otlJCr.'l-bnt cne which will enable vou to find out .for ycursdf some of the· m:;st interes1:iug­thlng, abcut flowe:·s, such as how life-like the~· arc, t heir fertilisation, and th: diff(;rent parts Nature has gi,·en then1 f q,­th;;ir prctectiou, etc.

To kgiu with, \\e all know that ordinary green lea.ves lorm r:art of a Hewer, but what are they there for ? \Vould it be just the same if they- were not there ? C''rtainly net. The green leaves help the· pbnt to breathe a.ncl to assllnilate its fo:Jd. The ether parts arc named !:dew, along with their uses :-

( r) The CAI,YX-made up of sepals-for protection when a bud.

(2) The Conou . .t ts rnude up of brightly colouretl peta.ls, and the US(~ it is put to is that of 8-ttracting insects.

(3) The STii!HENs form the male pa.rt of the Bower and produce POLtEN.

(4) The Prsnc, with the seccl-box, is tho;: Jcmak part of the flower.

II.-Drsl'£RSAI. m' SEEns.

It is perhaps mQst interestint" of all to note how the seeds !:!I·e s cattered. Tl1c chJterent meth::ds adopt•.:d {:an be divided inb four groups :-

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coats cf passing animals an(: the scnls nrc thus s catte:·cct, e.g-. Bur and G oose (;rass.

(d) Such plants as the c h erry and wild rose depend on birds, ctc ., scattering­the sccls hy eating a juicy conTing \\-hidt ,QT()\\' s round- t hem_

JlJ·:n'l'r£ 2\L1cK r~TOSH, IIL1.

C:\STLE ROY.

Os the ba11 ks <Jf many· of the riH·rs ltl ~cctlantl, th2:·e sbncl "the ruins of olc! c::stlcs, abl:eys and p:-i:,1·!cs . which hil,.c lx:cn the: s,- ~'nes of mnncrous histo~·i i::a] en:11ts . In th-e shaclo--•_, of the bleak ·cairn ­go:-nJs, 11Citr th-e beauti:"nl Rive-r Spc_v_. and within fire llliiwh•s' WlJ]k of 1\'ethybriclg-c, stand the remains of <mc:ent Castle Ro:r. It w;"ts built cn:r ;--oo ycn·s ago (luring the 1 ~•.gn c;f Darid 1., and is snppo_,.ed to lwn: T_:-ccn the rcsidciWc of the c~·:myns w1Jt:n t!lcv \H"re overlords of :\hcrnethv.

l~astl-2 Rov stanrls on a knoll , -Io to 15 feet above tl1e level gtonnd, which ga\"e it <1- gcod position for ddcnc-2. The: stones in the walls' of Castle F.ov are unusually small_ The:re is no trace qt a ch isd -o-r toe] upon them , and the morta.r stems t o lJan: teen mixetl with charcoal, gi,·ing it wonclcdu] strength_ It is alleged t hat tlH: :-e is a crypt or \'ault in the central court, which pen!)le living sixty years agq l1ave seen with the open111g and steps lead ing t~ this nncL"rgrounrl apartment_

Other t-raditions say that a. · treasure is hitltlcn withi11 its walls, and a secret passage' lea:1ing from the Castle to Croft Roy.

1VT-L'\T HE WAXTFW.

(a) The fruits of some plants exp1Qde, anr1 scl!c] their se~ds scme dista.ilce awa\·. lVI~st of us ha-w~ h ea"d the p:;cls ~f br·o·om explOding an<l dispersing tile seeds in this way.

(b) The fruits cf ether plants :ne rm,·irlecl w·ith wing-s, and the seeds are scattered bv the wind_ \Vc' "11 know tl1e d;ncklion tL~cs this method.

THJc political orator was in fnll snate. ., I Y,ant land reform," he s houted. " I 1m·tt k;n:-;i ng rdcn n _ I 11·ant ulncational rchrm. I want--' '

(G) \Ve often find tinv hooks on the fruits of some plants. 1'lws-c s l. 'ck on to the

"Chlorcfon n," ~;·'r:.l >! Lo---ed voice from l hc• alHlience .

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THE SArLOk'S \VIFE.

'vVho is she on yonder shore Intently gazing out to se~?

Who is she since lnng of yore Dally bent Ill ~crutwy?

:\ la.s ! alas ! fQr t we I Ye long years, Tweh·e years of weary waiting,

She has wakhed with growing fears And hope for e'er abating.

The sun 10hone from a cloudless sky, The sea was blue as sapphire,

When Dave prepared to say good-bye To his true-love for ever.

The " Bailbo ' was a dipper sound, Had spirits for her freight,

For Chinese waters she was bound And Davie was her mate.

They lingered o'er their last caress For home he nc'er returned.

And she, poor thing, in dire distress, For many years sojonrned.

They sa.y the yel1o\'.r pirate drank The wine meant for her master.

But sure it is, howe'er she sank, The " Bailbo " met disaster.

Widow's weeds the garm~nts W'!A!

Of broken-hearted Alice. YoU'd see her in the house of prayet

Cast down by Fortune's malicx-..

But now a sailor soug-ilt her out And asked her whv she mourned

" Your husband's w~ll. ccyond all doubt, Why a,-e you thus adorned?

Heard you not he went ashore \Vhen \Ve IYere off B(Jmbay?

I myself, at Singapolt' Had perforce to stay.

W'e both escap2d the wat'ry gra\'c That yawned before our fellows,

And nmv I've come to seek in Da\·C' A partner at the bellows.

Can it be that he's not bar.k, And I am here before him?"

~And Alice, though the Fates seem black, Is still there waiting- for him

J. I\-1', LAING, Cla% IV., H.G D.

THE TREASURE OF THE FOREST.

THE canoe soon apprc--ached the is la ntl, and the two men, Hooker and Evans, sprang ashore with u sheet cf yellow paper. TI1ey sat on a rock and studied it. " This crooked !Jnc is the ri rer and the star 1;1arks the place \Vhere th~ treasure is hid­den, but I do not know what l!.ll these dashes at tbe foGt mean," said Evans.

The two Englishmen had heard the two Chinese bllnng of the treasure one dark night as t.hey se~t by theIr fire. A Spanisl1 galleon from the I'hillipines had run hope­lessly aground, and all the cr·ew ·were lost. Then last year Chnng-hi had sttunblcd on the treas11r~: (which w.1s a great number of gold mgots) and rebnried them safe1v in u d:fle!·eut place, s!ngle-handed. He laid stress on the suiety~Jt \\·as a secret c£ his. Lvans picked up his can·ecl ·paddle and they set out to paddle> up: the. river. They landed at a. part of the bank where there was a dump of bushes and palm trees. They pushed through :t tangle of reeds and young trc<"s, and came t.o a. place where the trees \\·ere like Yast P' lla rs w hi eh rose in to a ma,"s of g-:·{;ellerv ow rhead. Presently they saw in a cleat1ll7 ahearl somethin:r blue. The thing was tl1e figur~ of a China~ man lying on his face.

The two men drew closer together aJHl stood staring at the dc.:d body. Nearby wa,;; a spade of Chinese pattern close to a newlv dug hole . They approached the hole, an~l Evan;; cegan to pick Hp the ingots an~l put them into his jacket. He noticed a few sman thorns which had punctured his hand. H:::okcr looked at Fvans-littk drops of sweat stq:Jd c ut upon his forehead. :-;uddenly h:: fell in a crumpled heap, gan· a little cry, and fell over. Hooker kne1\· tha t. it was no nse going to his friend's asststance, because Evans was tLad. He picked ttp one of the gold ingcts and felt a little prick on the ball cf l1is thumh. " God help me! " he said. Fer tl:c thon:s Y>ere .similar b those u sed bv Dvaks in their blow-pipes_ He understo;d Cl1ang-hi's

<>ssur~tn<'e of lhc safety of th~ tr(;'asme now

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Suddenly he felt an acute pain all through his body, and a moment later he fell on his face and became limp. Far above him a t':iint' breeze stirred the greenery, and the petals of some unknown flowct· floated down through the gloom.

l'ETEH S. MACPHEHSON, Class III.

NELLIE'S NEW FROCK.

" Is it not time you were finishing· scwl!lg? '' said Mr Bart on, as he laid dowu ltis newspaper, when the clock struck ten .

Mrs Barton shook her head and said, " 1 want to get Kellie's frock finished; her school frock: looks a little shabby in the spring sunshine."

At last the frock was finished and Mrs 13a.rton stghed wearily as she p'repared for bed, for she felt tired .

Next morning Kellie put on her new frock, feeling •rather proud as she hurried along to school, because her m other h arl embroidered the front qf it with coloured thread.

At the s2hool entrance she was accosted bv two girls 1d10 wue in the same class. -" Girls, look: ! " they cried at once , "here

is Kel lie Barton with a new frock; it is far too Jong ; what a ' c/ucl ' she looks in it!"

Some of the other girls laughed, and poor ?\ellie hung her head with disappoint­ment. :j:t never entered sensitive Nellie's mind that it was only envy that promptecl the girls to speak so of her new frock.

However, tbe words rankled. ·when 2-\l'llie arrived home at dinner-time s he said qu itc rebelliously to her mother, "I am not to put on this frock again, the girls say it i~ far too long."

" Dear me !" exclaim ed her mother, " never mind what the girls say, as long as I clo not think it too long."

Kcvertheless Nellie dashed into her bed­room, threw the new frod;: on a chair, put on her olcl one, and ntshed off to school.

Mrs Barton heard the door clang, anc] ~:t1y ::--:cJ!i<;> rnshin,~· :t'.l'n~- ll'ilh her olcl fro<;k

on, and she felt vextcl, for she had tried; to make the frock as nice. as possible.

When Nellie finished her lessqns that e1·ening her mother said " Come, we shall g::~ along and ask for Mr Dun bar; he has heen very ill, and I have not seen little Elsie at the Sunday School since some time."

When they arrived at the house Mrs Dunbar told them that her husband W!ts 11n proving.

When Mrs Barton asked for little Elsie, Mrs Dunbar said " Oh, F.ls'e ca nnot go to the SC~nclay School b :: cause she h~ s no frock. l require all my money to buy nourish­ment fer h~r sick fath e r, but Elsie does n ot mincl. She is a kind, unselfish girl."

:\'cllie Ba-rton -heard e\'ery word, and a shamed look crept into her eyes for she was thinking of the discard ed ne;v frock.

On the way home Mrs Ba1-ton felt e. sman hand push into hers, and Kellie said in a s hamed voice , "Mother, I do like my new frock, I shall put it on t o-morrow, and l'lll! I give this one to E lsie Dunbar ?"

Th e m other kissed her little girl and sa1cl " Th at is th e right spir:t; now Nellie yon will fee l hapRy."

:\'cxt day Kellie donned her new frock Could it be the same fl'Ock? It did not look a bit too long, and the embroidery w~s lo\'ely. At the school gate Nellie was :lccosted by a big girl in the Higher Grade.

" \lilho made your frock?" saicl the big gii-l

" Mother," exclaimed Nellie, quite pleased because the . big g irl took notice of it.

"Well, you are a lucky girl to have a mothe r to make a pretty frock like that," and the Hi.ghcr Grade girl sighed, because she had lost her own mother two years before.

One or two other. girls tqok ·notic~ of the pretty emb.roiclery, and nobody sa id wl1ether it was long or short, but NE!!llie did uot care because she felt so happy, and yn-oncl of her mothe r's work.

~H-~IlGARI\T H. FRAsER, Senior U.

22 (~RAMlVIAR SCHOOL MAGAZI I£.

THE LIFE S'l'ORY OF .'\ MOUNTAIN. HARE.

T HE s lopes of the Cairngorms lay deep un cler snow. Here and there the cleacl 11·lute of the lands2ape was rellevecl by little ridges blown bare by a southerly gale, and thawed out by the

. strengthening ~-\pril sun. In a pat ch of heather on one of these

nclges a little mountain hare first saw the light of da.y. The tiny creatnTe arriYed in a cold world fully furred and with eyes or-en . It did not receiYe m uch attention from; its m other, as often she< h ad to tra.vcl long dist ances in search of food, Qnly re­turning now and again to feed her off­spring .

After a few weeks the m other did not return, and our little friend, learning by instinct tlnt now it had t o fqrage for itself, began to nibble shoots and t ender grasses. 1\evertheless the little hare made rapid pro­gt·ess in its growth, feeding QU the yegetation that sprang up on the hillside.

One clay ·as it was sitting on a mossy bank, it saw strange forms approaching. At intervals loud repods brqke the silen ce of the glen a.nd stru·ck fear to its uututo.red heart. It squatted dose , h op ing to escape detection , but in a. few minutes a large anima.ll1alted a few feet away . This was too much ·for its nerves, and it wildly lea.pt as ide a.ncl fled uphill.

Autumn drew on, ancl once again the h are saw snow on the hi gh tops. When November came round it began t o change t o wint er white.

Ea.rly in December a hea\-y snQ~vstorm came on, and our poor friencl for the first time felt the pa.n gs of hunger. It came down t o the lower ground, and on one bright moonlight n ight. emboldened by want, it ventured -clown to the turnip field of a.n upla.nd cro ft. It 1\'aS almost at the pi t , when there was a flash, a sharp report and a charge of shot l1isscd over it into the snow beyond. One pell et passed thrQugh it~ right ea1=; a'nd this coup-led with the fri.!?:ht, f'en t it uphill at. top speed.

B,r the. beginning of l\lfn1'Ch a strange

madness seemed· to possess our friend, and 1t jumped and turned head over heels in sheer joy. In April its coat turned to a summer blue , and it returned to its old hz. unts higher up on the hills .

Ouc e,·ening, as it \Yas quietly feeding a ll unconscious of its clanger, it suddenly Sa\\' a reel bccly leaping through t he ai•r . Instantly it sprang as ide and the fox bounded over it. Summer came and went, Autumn followed, and soon winter set · in with it s fros t an d sn ow. Our little friend kept nearer the h omesteads and managed t o forage for food . One night, as it was racing uphill , s omet hi ng suddenly tightened

, round its neck. It sprang from side to side uttering pitiful screams, but its struggles .· m erely hastened its end, a nd scon . ·our . hardy m ountain friend was at the end · of all its t·roubles.

HARRY A. FRASER, Chss IliA. :fi .G.

SCHOOL.

At a lmost nine each morning, To the school upon the brae,

·with hea.vy sighs and groaning I wearily wend my way. i. •

Each day the bel11·ings just in tim~ , Never a minute la.te;

ViTith a loudly, horribly cheetiu1 chime It ca.lls us to our fate.

French, Latin a.ncl Geography : Wha.t wretched subjects · those !

History; Algebra., Geometry­Oh give us the smallest close.

We groan and sigh a.nd' gr 'umb1e, Vle sometimes laugh a.ncl smile ;

'\f<le whisper, chatter a.nd mumble , The teacher scowls the while.

Yet it is really very queer , Tha.t they who ougbt t o kn ow

Of schoolda.ys usually sa.y, "Mv clear, 'Twas much worse long ago."

RunT Gn.mnn.

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SPORTS ACTIVITIES. UNDER the capta.incy of J am es Brucc th e

school has h ad what m ay be consider ed a s uccessf].Il sports year, being runners -up b J;. lgin Academy in the Schools CQunty F oot ba H Championship in t he first year of their en tra nce . The exact fig ures are as follows :-

l'lycl. 6

Goals. vVon Lost Dxawn F . A. Pb .

6 3 3 0 9 20

F iYe players weJ;c. .included in the Select X I. to, play l.lgin Academy d \vho-m t wo, lir uc2 a.I1ct Coo ke (resen e), were ch ose11 for thq , an.n.u.al intei·ccotmty m atch wit h Da nff . The resu]t of t he latter was Oll e

gc11 all, Hruce being t he marksman for Moray .

Th e g i.rls ' ho::ke; team, under the c::tpta.incy of Zena Ga.ultlie, had also a suc­ces.sful if som e11)1at short feason, defea t ing F on·es Academy in a fr iendly game by 3 goa ls .to o. l.t is Jwpecl t o be possible t o fi eld a team to play l'egularl y next EeasqJJ.

Since Easter t he new system of cliYi cling the sch ool . into houses has been i ll ­a.ugura t.ecl . Ea.ch has its own house captai 11. This tes t m eds t he di ffi-cult p roblem Qf competition wi thin a comparat i 1·ely sm a 11 school; for Form -compditi0n is a.p t t o l~e one-sided, whil e houses a~·e approximate ly q ual in s tte.11gth .

Thanks to th is syst c·m crick et h as o:)t ainecl a. definite fo::Jt ing in schcol. The Yalu e of t he st ra.ig ht bat an d gcoc] length · in bowling are l::eginni ng to l::e apj)r eciatecl and pradisecl. So fa r P.eYoan seems t o be " cock-house " (Car t ain-Frank Robcrts) . S l.tonld good pl'Ogress be made a fix tu re \\'ith F orres _1\.·caclemy will be arra nged.

Pure athle ti ~s cnlminn te on S port s Dny, Th urscb y , June r3th (weat her permittin g), to wh ich the public are welcomed. An att ractiYe programme will be carri ed throug h, including the inte-r-house r elay races anc] t ug -cf- wa.r. Tile other schools in t he c:::unty will he in Yitcd t q send repre­sentat i,·e teams for Qll in ter-sch ool relay race, as th e holding of a county sports meeting this year is improbabl e.

Next t erm i t is proposed to s ta1 t R ug by Footba-ll in sch ool. This is n ot 1ntemlct! of course t o displ ace t he Asscciat iqn cad re, but to supplem e-nt it . The " soccer ' " season has been fe-nnel t o be t o:J- long C'OJJ­sidering t he sma ll number of fix t nres a\·a.! lable.; gt·eater enthus:asm it is tlll}Jlgllt \\" i ll l::e p roYoked by a slwrter season, say from Decemb er rs t t o Easter. Septcmbu t o Decem ber therefore will be clevote<l t o Rugby. Probably each g·ame will benefit from the -:::.t he:!· , R ugby in l:etter ball control aoongst t he forwa rds and Ass-ociation in greater clash and ·readiness in t acklin g·. Captain Hendry has k indly offered l1is a.<si~; t a.nce in t he matter of CQ<Jch.ing .

Houses ought t o fie ld competiti\"c X I 's from which a X V. could l;e selected to represent the schoql against F lgi n Academy . E vet·y thing, howev-er, depencls on th~ sp irit wi th which the boys t ake np the game.

INTE R-COUNT Y GAME.

THis game at l\lfcsset Park, F orres, hc­tlve-eu teams i'epr-esenting the con nh· s~hools Qf l\1-oa·ay and Banff was inclecrl . . " thrilling t uss le from s tart to fin 'sh .

The Ba.nff boys won the toss and th e ll ~orayshire centre kicked off facin o· ., strong bJ·eeze . Banffsh ire schoo lboy~ S~JOwecl eaJ·ly tha t they \\'er e the clc ,·erc r t :::am. The Morayshire forwards howc 1·cr had a few clangerous ra.ids on 'the Ba.nft g-ual; but luck was n ot with th em. Ho\\'­C\·er, worse luck follo,,·ecl ; for before t l1c g1m-e was t wenty minutes old an F Jo·i11 b3ck de.fleded the ball a g ainst h is ~ ~~ 11 , a ncl th e i·eferee award-ed a pena lty . T he r es til t-ing kick . was p laced well out of t he custod ia n's reaeh.

After the interval the M-orayshire bo,·s showed t hemselves in a m uch bette1· l igl;t ; and it was only their d ue wh en th eir centre-fonvaJ·cl p ut the team s o-n level fo·o t­i ng. Fr om this point •onwards the game was fough t on keen lin es until the -finnl ~Y h is tle sounded. Res ult-r-r.

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24 ( a{AlVBL\.R SCHOOL lVIAGAZJ-:\'H.

THE CAVES.

ON the scuthern sl!crcs of tL~ .i\lcray · Firth, to the west of Lcssiemotith, are ma-ny high diHs, and \vhcn the tide is out there are lo·n~1y stretches of satid.

One Satunlay. afternoon a· chum and I. went there. Fortunately the ti'de \'iUS om and we clim b~d down to the ·shore by mean;.-, c£ steps .hev.m o:ut of the rock. vVe fr;und the chffs to .be inhabited. by hun­dr-eds of scagulls~ There w'ere 'also very many caves; therdo_re it Was . fQrtunatc thllt we had prodtle~l ou.rsel ves with t:.Jrch~s for the occasion.

Tlu: floors cf . th(; ca·:cs, \VC discovered, were strewn v:ith the. skdctons of many animals, gh·in:{ the p-laces \v--ith their hith dark lTJfs a 'L:ry, ~ric_ atmosphere·. \\·c were the more infeh:stcd·in th{!lll however, bccau.-;e we h::d · heartl that~ sn;ugg1ei·s h~ d used the cav~~• for storing tlidr 'booty.

There was cne ca.ve wllich interested 1'S

n~ry much; this_ wa~ -~uten~t1 -by a low passage. \Vc foUowecl it· ·fot about a hun­c1rcrl yards, bo.tt at a. bend it was blocked by loose nibble.· · Iu another ca.\·e the flo·Jr was coYered ,,-ith 1nnd, in \vhich niy ch11:11 slipped and felL Ke1·~rtheless we co:I­tinuccl,_ none the \v-orse of this mishap.

As we \W~i·e·. ;.va1kin~· homewa.nls ,-,-e thought llow ,:,-6nclerfi.1l it 1vas that tho:;c caves should be made by the continu al dashing of the. wa.ws agaittst the ·cliff's face.

T. H., Class Sen. IL

THE AGE OF J\'L\CHINERY.

THERE wa.s once 'an I'rishman who \\'aS

p:-esentecl with a watch. ' After a time he found it would .n·ot ·g.o, s'Q he took it back to the person who gi'n-e it: to hinJ.. This 1uan tolcl him to. open the· back and see what 1\'a"­the matter with it. He did so, and finding a dead fly in tne works, shouted :

"_-\h! 1\o wonder it \\'Onlrln't g-o-lhe driver's dead!"

ji\SSII\ FRASI\R, Class I., H .(i.

Tug Fairies in the fairy-rings .-\re very sprightly little things, They dan(:e al!l1ig:ht, they sleep all day, They 1tcver work, but. always play.

\Vhen clay is done and t-wilight fa11s , They listen for th~ fairy bell, And when they hear tbc eJfi n calls, They come in crowds -o'er hill and dell.

To the fairy ballroom under t he trees, \Vherc mus:c wafts on the evening breeze, And a.U night long they dance so gay, Unbl the dawn of another day.

l\fARGUERITFJ K. 'KING, Sen. Ill.

FROST.

In E~-e morning when we l'is·e \V~ find tha.t someone rlesen·es a prize, For wlwn we pull up the blind We find that someone's been Yery kind .-\ n d dra.wn ss me ]m·ely flowers and k aws On the windc\v which just last nigH Vv"as not at .all looking bright. So don't be scared, When you find your wmclows al1 bright, \Vith lovely flowers That were not there last night. F01· jack Frost does lJ.Ot try to shirk He always. does his nightly work.

Gor.,DY Locrcs.

Oh, happy, happy, winding burn Thou hast no care or sorrow

Thou lnst the miller's wheel to turn And no thought for the morrow.

Oh men-v, m errv little birds That at sunris"e' d o· twitter!

They know not -of the joy tl1ey bring As btanc h to branch they flutter.

Oh happy U:e hear t. emb:;wered In Joye's own golden c'lg-e,

Dnt sad the heart o'erpowered, Ily grief's Decemher rage.

ZENA (~.HH.DIE, Class li I.

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WHAT ABOUT THE FORMER PUPILS?

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At the same tim e, the a(h ertisement manager feels tha t for future issues the rate of achertisement sh ould be ]ower; a.nc] the natural solution to this problem is, that the magazin e should be partly financed by contributions from former p u,p·ils. ~ow the F.P,.'s Club has not been flo urishing fot· some years . Vole therefo.re take thi s opportunity of wa.rning old mem.bers , as well as the yQunger genera­tion who ha1·e neyer had an opportunity of becoming members, that a meeting of old (~ i'ammari an s will be called some time towa.rd s the end of the year, when a new ~ecretary will be elected (in place of Miss :\Iacgregor, who considers that her position bad fallen defunct along with the Club), the subsci'iption fixed (a. purely nominal one) , and arrangements made for a Dance, Dinner, or annual function of some sort 11·hich will bring all the members together. The maga.zine wilt then become the special c rga.n of the F.P.s as well as the sch QOl; a. "·atcbful eye will be kept on the doings of old Gramma.rians who haYe •been sca.tterecl abroad, and Grantown's most distinguished sons and daughters will be clra.wn upon for letters and con tributions of a ll kind s .

In connection with . this , it is p.roper to mention that the Dux Boa,rd Fund has recently been increased by the am ount of [ 5, a don ation from one of t he most d is­t inguished and successful of Grantonians who received their early training at th e G rammar School-Mr W. G . Mackintosh, Yice-President of the Continental Illinois

Bank and Trust Company, Chicago. We are glad to be able t o mention such an t usta nce cf mindful generosity in our fi rst iss ue . It seems to augur well for the success of both the Magazine and th e F.P.''s Club.

NATURAL. AUNT-" ·what became of the kitten you

had when I was here last, Mary ?" MARY (surp.rised)-" \lilhy don't you

know A untie ? " :\ .. -" I ha1·en't heard a \TOnl. Was s he

poisoned ? " i\1.-" No, auntie." A.-" Drowned?" M.-" Oh, JI O. "

A .- '' Stolen." i\1.-" No." A.-" Hurt 1n any way?" i\1.-" No." A.-" Well, I can't guess. "What be­

came Qf her ? " lVI.-" She growed in to a cat.''

VILI.AGE DOCTOR-Are you better? H aYe you tal~en p lenty of animal food?

PATIENT-Yes, as long as it was beans and oats, I could manage pretty well, but when it came tq chopped hay that right' down choked me, sir. H ELEN DuFF.

Or,D LADY - Deed, Mr McTreacle, butcher's meat is sae dear noo a. days I'm nae able to buy it.

GROCER-You should t urn a vegetarian. Or.D LADY-1\a, Na, I was born and

brocht up in the Free Kirk, a.nd I'm n o going to cha.nge my reelegion in my oulcl days.

HELEN DUFF.

AK Aberdonian once came to our school concert a·nd asked a boy what the prices were . . The boy replied " Three shillings for a fmn t seat , two shillings for a middle seat , one shilling for a back seat, and a penny for a. progranune." ·

" ·well," said the Aberdonia.n , "I'll s it on a programme."

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HOME-MADE S C 0 NE S AND CAKES.

DELICIOUS ICE-CHEAM (with Fruit) DAILY,

WEDDING, PJC~IC,' DANCE, AND PlUVATE PARTIES CATERED FOR

'Phone l\ o. 76. Proprietor-Miss M. MACDON ALD.

THE GRANT ARMS HOTEL

Open fill the Year ?{ound

Recently considerably enlarged and re­furnished.

':Phone, 26.

Hot and Cold Water in all Bedrooms.

CC'elegrams, " Grant firms ."

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1 ou'~ i>~e;nise~ haviiog undergone extensivi-alterat ions. we are now .in a position to offer larger ranges of Drapery Goods in all Departments. We cordially invite you to inspect our Stocks which are well chosen. moderate in price and up-to-date.

Boys7. Outfitting

We are offerin g extra val tte ill Boys' F lannel Eu its. G rey an d Navy, from 5/ 6 to 12/ 6. Also l31azers, 4/6 u p. Special v;~l t te in Boys ' Grey Flanud Sltor ts with double

seats , from 2/0 . Boys' 81t irts in G t ey, Elw l<i, W h ite, 8 and, etc., wi th ~po r ts collars . Boys' T weed Su its, al l sizes. Good 1re;~ri ttg tllat er ial s from ] ::! / (\ to 27/ 6. Hel ia b le T weed Shor ts. Ecbool .l erseys frofll 2/ 11. Good (iu<tlity Cash t11 ere J nseys with School

Col oms fr om 6/3 . Boys' Top Hose from 1/- to 3/ 6. School Ti es, B .. ; Its, Badges, Uar~. llrr.ces, Band kerc hiefs, Pte. F oot.ball Shorts, etc.

Girls Gy m Frocks from 8/G. G ym Blou ses.

f Print F rocks frotn 1/ li! up. I .arge v:u·i ety. " Wool J um pers, Cardig :ms .

Gy m Hose in Blaek and Tans, also Coloured Cash mere, etc. ~ Speci al l ine Hi bhed Cash mere Hu;;e h om l/3! up.

Girls' t urn down T op i B ose. Fncks. All good value. 1' Children's Un de rwear of all kiHds nt heen prices. Lena La::.t ik, Alpha an d ,, Sen sola Makes.

I! -Ladies' , )1 isEes a nd Cbil d ren's Milli nery . Large selec tjons of att ract ive New ~~ :Season's Mod els. 11 Ladies' an d Misses Coa t F rocl< s and Coats in latest shades and s t.,· Jes. :: Ar tificial Silk Undeni·ear and H <Is ie ry of all k inds • ii W e specia,lise . in LENA L ASTIK UJ\ DERWEAR, Corsets . Corselet , , Brassiers, etc. !i vVe stock Tmantulle, ::\1adapolmns, J.aw u;;, ;md otiler materia ls for school sewi11g. i/ Also "ATHALENI!," Fa br ics , pre·emin<'nt for Dres,es a nd Un den YP;tr, 1/- per yard . 1 Ar t. N eec! lewqrk, Tra nsfers, E rn broidPry l..'ott on ~ , Silk;;, e tc., etc.

Our G e1I t. ~s Depar t tnent is \Yell k no wn . Hea dy-ma de Cl< thi ng of all kind s , L · Uurl yrwear , Ca ps, Hats, t-loch a nd T op Hose, T ieF>, llr:Ices , Sh irt s, etc.

Suits to Measure a: S pecial ity .

Agent f or Bon A ccc rd Steam Laundry, Aberdeen.

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE DRAPER, MANCHESTER HOUSE GRAN T OWN-ON -SPEY

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Flousehold Goods General Ironmongery

China & Glass, Rugs Carpets, Li:1oleums

come to

MacDougatl's Stores 2 THE SQUARE

GRANTOWN • ON - SPEY

Comfort for Baby

PRAMS FOR SALE OR HIRE. REPAIRS.

PRAMS complete with Hood and Apron, from £3 38 Cash.

D.R.GEDDES Wine&ProvislonMerc•ut • • • THE SQUARE •••

GRANTOWN .. ON .. SPEY

HOME-MADE JAMS AND MARMALADE

Buy your ill!! where you

are aure to get them FRESH

at

M. CAMPBELL:S THE

FISHMONGER

MacPHAIL PAINTER AND GLAZIER.

Fine Selection of Wallpaper in Stock.

W. G. Donaldson · High Street, Orantownaon=Spey

THE PHARMACY 43 IlGB STBEIT .. GBIITOWI~OisSPEY

Dispensing carefully and accurately carried out with the purest drugs, under qualified supervision. .. .

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Photographic Apparatus Agent for KODAK GOODS.

A full range of T 0 I L E T REQUISITES, High-Class Soaps and Perfumery.

• • • Optical Goods . . .

ALL ~ECESSAHIES FOR THE NURSERY and SICK ROOM . .

A _ _ @> W·ATS"If ----- ~U __ Che111Ut and Optician 43 HIGH STREET. GRANTOWN

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