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IMPRESSIONS FROM “OFF THE
SHELF” AND “A PAGEANT” - -
“I haven't the gift of the gab, my sons . . . ”
No excuse for that English paper my son.
“But we stood without in the cold blowing airs”
And the principal addressed us anon.
“The outlandish ways and dress”
Your opinion of the uniform ?
“Left alone against my will”
Detention must be slackening off.
“And when all were in to the very last”
This race usually lasts a good hour.
“As if they were changed into blocks of wood”
That’s only the teachers’ opinion ! !
“And folks who put me in a passion.
May find me pipe to another fashion”
Students ! Beware of that teacher should that happen.
“And I chiefly use my charm”
Why ‘charm’ and not ‘arm’ as many have felt.
“I wish I were a mile hence !”
An exhausting 2.7 miles just covered.
“It’s easy to bid one rack one’s brain ...”
But it’s not so easy to find the answer.
“They all with a shout made the elements ring.”
Perhaps one day Q.S.S.S.S.A. will know the might of Wynnum.
“Paradise Lost”
W.J.C.
“L’Allegro”
M. J. Me.
“When I do count the clock that tells the time”
Boring Period.
“At every word a reputation dies”
Remarks on school record cards.
“Nothing ill comes near thee”
School.
“Fear no more the frown of the great
Thou art past the tyrants stroke”
Holidays.
“ ’Mongst horrid shapes and shrieks and sights unholy”
Room One !
“Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard”
“Forty years on”
— A. Preston and R. Bolitho, Form 5C.

A NARROW ESCAPE - -
Each one of us has, at some time, longed to get away from his own life
and read or dream about another less dull or definitely more exciting life.
Because we feel a desire for adventure, spiced with a touch of danger, but
without harmful consequences, the theme of “a Narrow Escape”, has ever been
a popular one, and is much used by story writers.
We can read of innumerable narrow escapes under difficult circumstances
if we care to buy current fiction. Many historical books contain true and
thrilling stories of narrow escapes—breathtaking accounts of brave persons
★ This Page generously donated by W. M. LAMOND PTY. LTD.,
ESTATE AGENT, Bav Terrace, Wynnum.
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