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physical exerccse, especially the horse! ! !
b~y Faith- Seen near Shorty Ring, with whom he carries on many animated con- versations especially in Grammar perioda.
Ernie Brock-Who likes to play with Bill ·watts, has a peculiar dislike for school and girlf'
Beatrice Brooker-Keeps Maltida straight at the back ·or ·the room. Likes to answer all the brain racking questions sprung at us.
Bill W atts-Miss Moir's reason for threat- eel departure. Famous for his feet and the number of times he is sent out of the room.
Tom Blythe- Can be recognized by his dark rimmed glasses and studious atti- tude.
Jim Harrold- Nobody knows where he came from but he's here. He claims he has a weak heart but this can't be held against him.
Florence Burns-W as presented to us by IIA, on account of her good 't1ehaviour. Says she came in here to help us do Olll' Latin.
-,Iiss :nfoir-In giving oral compositions the chief thing is to be able to .think on your feet. For example, supposing you were giving a composition on How to Bake :t Cake, you should do it on your feet.
provisions were that all pnpils mus-t know all lessons!
Howard Hewson and Cameron McD'e:r- mid had received a job one night ~fefore go- ing to bed. The moon was so bright they got up and painted the windows black. They slept long and '>oundly. At last Cam. said, "Get up, Hewson, its about time for work.
Howard- "Aw keep quiet it isn'.t daylight yet. After many of these awakenings and failures to get Howard up Cam. became uneasy. He went to the door. It was broa,l daylight. He saw a workman passing by. He asked him the time. It was five min- utes to seven. They had to be at work 'tt
seven o'clock. After much rushing they got to work at five after seven. The 'L·oss sai-L "'Yu:re fired." Hewson, quite innocently asked "what for? Only being five minutes late?" Boss, "No,. where ·were you yester- day?"
Billy Mirrlees. If you had ten apples <tnd wished to divide them equally among .thr0 <1 p e o p l e w h a t w o - u l d y o u d o ? a s k e d lVIl~<; Clark.
Billy-I'd make them figure out the an- swer themselves before I gave them any.
Miss Moir- Fike, what did you do witl1 your scrap book?
Fike- I gave it to a junk dealer he want- ed it fa·r an advertisment of his business.
Mr. Reynolds- What does college bred mean?
Eileen Swan-It means the flour of youth and the dough of old age.
Howard Gamble- If you saw someone beating a mule in the street and I went out and stopped Wm, what virtue would you call it?
Leonard St. Amand- Brotherly love.
As you ·enter this 1·oo.m you are aware .that you are in an atmosphere of study. The room also bears earmarks of much usage though only five or six years ol•1. Oceasionally, a mishap t.·efalls one of tho not so careful students, in the form of a splash of ink on the flo-or. But with the
aid of sanclpap.er a miracle is performefl and the for'lll teacher does not notice it thus saving the guilty on~ a ·tongue thresh- ing.
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Hugh Smith-W atts
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FOR&I lA NOTES
Francis Morrison and Eileen Swan
Roy Brock-Was asked to name the Pre- sidents of the United States. Appar·ently he got mixed up with the presidents of the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. because he starto~l of~ with Amos n' Andy.
Sammie Gold-When was the Test Act passed and what were its provisions.
Sam-It was passed last December. Miss Kennedy-What do you mean? Sam-Why the Christmas tests. And the