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Second Prize-Shirley Shier. THE ARRIVAL OF SPRING The flowers, each wearing his
bloom As a crown;
The bubbling brook o'er the rocks
Tumbles down; E"ipring is here.
The chirp of the robin from the south
·Clearly trills;
As new colours of the spring
time
Rpl<J.shes t h e h i l l s ; E"prine; is here.
White clouds softly scudding In skies of blue;
Golden sun shin.ing bright Over their hue;
Srpring is here.
Grass springing through the
earth
In painted pale green;
Budding trees ave welcome signs To be see•n;
Erpring is here.
Each one with it's own special voice,
Seems rto be singing, ''Spring is here, rejoice."
SENIOR POETRY COMPETITION
First Prize - Terry Irwin COMING OF THE
NIGHT STORM
"No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The ship was as still as she could
be· "
Still asthe sky, still as the night, Giving it all an eerie light
As the reflection from her bow Touches here, touches there,
stops here now:
0alm the waters of Nottawasaga, Making this night like one of a
The blue-black sky, the blacker trees
Full of a stillness and unease: Then the winking of each star 8eems reflected on shore's afar:
'Tis only the light of some c.::tmPe·rs there,
Fixing their tents, for presence of care
On a night like this may well orove wise,
Tho" not to a mere outsider's eyes
Does this night seem anv but warm·
saga;
But to others-it breeds a storm. JUNTOR ,F:SSAY CnMPF.TJTTON
First Prize-Kaye Bell CATS
When looking- at a oat did you ever stop to thir.lk of its origin? .Tust a cat, tha•t people think is inferior to them, has a long un- usual ancestry.
Jus.t imagine. the first cat dated back to the ancient Egyp- ti~·!'IS who cau~ht and tamed the African wildcat. These cats were in turn broue;ht to Europe and then to North America. Certain other -cats were offspring of the European wildcat. These cats haci lonrger bodies and bushier tails.
The legends sav that cats wh0se ancestors mav be traced •bark to F<TVP'~ have whollv black p"'.ds on the soles of their feet,
whereas the Euroneans have only round bla•ck spots on their toes.
Cats Which are splotched in a certain pattern are said to be of Chinese origin.
Some cats were brought from E<rVIJt to Europe by the Phoeni- cian traders and cats were said to be well estrablished in Italy before the Christian era. The P~<Jrliest recorri of cats in Great Rritaim was 9'l6 A.D. when the Prinr.e of South Wales made a law for their protection.
There are many different b,.~>eds of ca;ts. Ane;oras and Per- si::>ns. the long-haired breeds. nri<TinatPd in, the deserts of Cen- tr::ol Asia. The Manx cat has no tail-Only a tuft of hair when
C. D. C. I. GLEANER