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Elementary P rize Essay
1his year the Annual Board suggested a contest for the best essay and the best poem written by members of the 5th, 6th and 7th grades.
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A whiff of salty air, a fresh breeze, and a looming shape were my first impressions of the sea and ships. Later I noticed the galleon, as
fair a ship as ever put to sea, towering above the other boats in the harbor. Her half-furled sails fluttered in the wind like canvas birds upon a sunset sky that was turning pink and gold. A flag on the top of the
mast blew gayly in the breeze, as did another from her poop. A crisp wind
blew with a salty tang of the sea in it, and the ship as she lay moored i was carried up and down by the surge of the waves. 1 could see the sailors
on her decks, and their clear and sturdy voices came to me over the
waves, d'he prow of the boat was carved to represent a hissing sea-
serpent, and on the stern, as if to defy it, was painted a striking picture of a sea-rover with drawn cutlass. I stood and watched the sun as it set beyond the blue waters in the west. 7'hen I turned to travel home, leav­ ing the galleon that was now only a black outline against the evening sky
Camill.a W. Hayward, ’33.
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