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Show A FAMOUS OLD CASTLE We have been studying Switzerland and its wonderful things. The most wonderful thing, it seems to me, was about an old castle with a barrel in It. It holds S0O hogsheads nnd 80.000 bottles of wine all at once. Part of the old castle has fallen down. Howard Mitchell, Gth Grade. ROOM CHALLENGED Our room challenged the fifth grade, to a spelling contest Thursday, and won. To-morrow we are going to challenge chal-lenge the seventh grade to a spelling contest We hope we will win. Deaua Duke, Gth Grade. DEANA'S HOUSEKEEPING This week Deana has been doing our room's housekeeping. She cleaned the cupboard and eerythIng she cou'.d. We hope the other girls will keep it as clean as she did. WHAT COUNTRY AM I? I am a country in Africa. The Nile river, runs through me. The Red Sea touches me. I am mentioned in the Bible. Melba Kofford, Gth Grade. ....I ara the longest river, in the world. My course runs over , the equator every ev-ery year. I overflow my banks. I empty Into the Mediterranean sea. Which river riv-er am I? Silvas Birch, Gth Grade. FIRST GRADE Wo are making booklets. We. call them, "A Child's Gurden of Verse." The poems are ull by Mr. Stevenson. It is fun to draw the picture and then write the poem under It. We have stud-led stud-led the .poem about the rain,sthe cow, and a bird. Each day we have a new one. Elva Clark has moved to Vernal. We miss her very much. Blllle Shelton was called away from school last week, to go to Salt Iike where his father Is very ill. Since hearing the story of good St. Valentine we are all very, anxious to send loving messages to our friends on his birthday, February 14th. A "little bird" told us, the Legion and Auxiliary are to give a flag to our room If we learn to show our Jove for It. We are anxious to receive the flag and are working hard so we can remember all the Important thlugs about It. Perhajw we can tell out Mama's Ma-ma's and Papa's something about the flag they never have known before. ESKIMOS Funnv little Eskimo, livini? in hi hut of wnow. With tliejr funny yellow faces. And turlyjbrown dogs that run such races, I should know you'd like to go Where the cold north winds blow, Where the Eskimos run and play. With their dogs they play, play, pluy, Happy little Eskimos all the day. They always like to go hunting spnl, For their noon or evening meal. Jean Morrison, 4th Grade. MY DOG, COALY. The snow is deep. The hills are steep, My dog is sick With a rope around his neck. But he is sly, He won't cry. A J lie is fat. nnd roly, I That's why I call him Coaly, . . He barks at night. And he will bite, lie Is getting strong, And he Is long. Ills hair Is gray, I know he will stay, His birthday is gone. He doesn't do wrong. I stop to think. My dog has to have a drink. Bill Alerkley, 4th. Grade. Furs are taken from many differ-, ent kinds of fur-bearing animals. Some of them are bear, wolf, fox, coyote, coy-ote, lynx, beaver, seal, muskrat, and many other kinds. Some are caught in traps and their hides are taken off and sent to a tannery. Fur-bearing animals are getting scarce in the United Unit-ed States, that Is wild ones. .'The furs nre made Into coats, mittens, mit-tens, errs and -'her winter wraps. K?jc Pace, 4th. Grade. i The muskrat lives iu the water. He has a tall that has only two sides. They eat roots that they find In the banks of the rivers and sloughs. You set a trap where there Is a hole. When they go' out. or In they get caught. When you skin them you pull the hide off their bend. They make coats and collars out of them. Melvln Wihte, 4th. Grade. The Eskimos digs a hole in the ice and waits for the seal. When the seal comes up to get some air, he takes a harpoon and kills it. Some mother seals dig a hole in the lee and put the babies In the hole. The i Eskimo digs down in the Ice nnd gets the baby seal. Ralph Preece, 4th. Grade. |