Black & Gold 1966

BLACK AND

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LUSHINGTON BOYS, SCHOOL OOTACAMUND

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ANNUAL MAGAZINE

1966

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EDITORIAL

ONE'S NAME IN PRINT

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. "Tis pleasant sure, to see one's name in print;.

A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.' . remarked Lord Byron in one of his satirical poems. Certainly school magazines suffer from this peculiar danger; that parents and students alike anxiously peruse the pages for familiar names.

We hope.they find what they are .looking for. At the same time we trust. th!tt a n.Âľmber of disinterested readers may also gaiq pleasure from this book, and not find that there is 'nothing in't'.

Above all.we hope that this second edition maintains the admirable traditions set by our first editor. If it does that it will have succeeded.

There is one editorial note that should be made. Throughout~ the Standard or Form number given to a boy relates to the Standard in which he is at present. Many, indeed most, of the contributions will have been written when the author was in a lower form.

Finally I should like to thank all those who have helped in any way with the production of this magazine, but especially the boys, because it is they who have provided the material and inspiration for a second 'Black and Gold'.

CONTENTS 1

STAFF AND PUPILS PLAY

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GAME

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SCHOOL DAYS

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OUT AND ABOUT

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IMAGINATION AND THOUGHT

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NEWS OF PAST STUDENTS

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WRI'ITEN BY ACCIDENT ...

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PART I

STAFF AND PUPILS

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HEADMASTER'S

REPORT

1966 MR CHAIRMAN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

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Those of you who were at Parents' Day last year will remember the request for prayer that guidance might be given in regard to the possibility of further expansion which then seemed to be a pressing necessity. Most of you will remember the discussion at the Parents' Meeting at the end of May on the same theme.

Numbers continued to rise after last May and we reached the 140's for boarders with a total just over 160. The Advisory Council had requested that we consider the renting of a bungalow for the overflow which appeared likely in February, and with a direction from the Management to explore this possibility we actually almost had an agreement made for a very suitable bungalow in the neighbourhood last October. By then the border fighting had taken place and the waiting list position had eased. A close examination of the lists showed so many uncertainties that we felt it wise to drop the bungalow project, and your prayers were partly answered when we re-opened in February, having had to turn away no-one whom we felt that we were letting down in any way. Boarding numbers rose very slightly to 149 this term and the total to 165, but this increase is negligible and we are relieved to find ourselves with the opportunity to consolidate the work, for which we thank God. Mr Smyth has been streamlining the working of our finances, making them easier to work and to supervise. The Prospectus has, at long last, had its complete re-draft and will be, we hope, ready for the Parents' Afternoon on May 25th when all parents will be welcome at 3 p.m. I might warn you in advance, for the benefit of those who will not be able to be there, that the fees quoted in the new Prospectus will seem to have been increased .

This increase is only apparent, and is due to the removal of various fixed charges from the medical and sundries payments, and their inclusion as fees. Costs are all rising steadily, as you all know too well, but we hope that no real fee increase will be necessary yet.

Even after last May, when many of you attended the Thanksgiving Service for the new building, work continued on its fitting out, in particular, the equipping of the laboratory. The gym in which you are now sitting, lost its nice parquet floor, which was 3

lifting as fast as we could put it down again, and was given its present more utilitarian cement floor. The side doors were also turned into additional windows. All this work went considerably beyond the donations which we were grateful to receive and so, for another reason, a year of quiet on the building front is welcome and will allow us to get back to an easier position as regards a working balance of cash in hand. The new building still has needs in the way of equipment and we hope to go ahead with .these slowly, as we are able.

Last year we were glad to welcome seven new staff members.

Miss Wishart as nurse, Miss Sherwood as housekeeper, Miss Reid as matron of Intermediate House and Miss Sargant, Miss Wagland, Mr Williams and Mr Beattie as teachers. Miss Brent and Mr & Mrs McNaught left. Miss Colclough taught art by Hebron's consent and helped pack at the end of the year. By September, therefore, we were better staffed on paper than we have ever been. However, absence through illness, or through the illness of relatives, was a feature of that term and we were glad to have the help of Mr . & Mrs Foster, East Pakistan missionaries then stranded in Coty, and of Mrs Fordham, who also helped out earlier this term. In November Miss Orme, Miss Matthews, Mr Williams and Mr & Mrs Parker left us while this term we have been joined by Miss Some'"rville, a teacher, Miss Culmer a matron, and Mr Wood and Mr Wraight, teachers. A replacement for our music teacher was arranged but, by one of those unforeseen blows which one can only accept without fully understanding, trus arrangement fell through. Piano teaching has, therefore, unfortunately lapsed for the moment, but should start again soon.

It has been good to see, with the better staffing situation and better health this term, an increase in out-of-school activity.

The choir and the gym group have made their presence known today, the choir has also prepared pieces to be sung, for instance, at Union Church. A senior woodwork club has come into being, and we have possibly for the first time, managed to keep both cricket and athletics active this term with a good competitive spirit. At Easter a camp was run at Mukerti for the first time since 1960, and an attempt was made on the remote Nilgiri Peak-unsuccessful owing to lack of time, but enjoyed by all.

The Cubs camped on Dodabetta. I know that you parents will be especially glad of all this as well as_all the routine day-by-day 4

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care of your boys in class and out of it, and on your behalf, and on my own, I thank the staff members who have put so much into all this. We thank God for it all.

Miss Jackson and Miss Gladwell are due to leave for furlough soon and are to be replaced by Miss Enns (who was here in 1962) and Miss Morrison.

Many of you have prayed for the recovery of Jenni Gla5gow from her grave illness last year, and her recovery, as indicated by her appearance on the stage this morning, is a cause for real thanksgiving. She has been a pupil here this term as the doctors advised that she should stay with her parents and this does remind us that her recovery is not complete as yet. Medical advice is that her parents should take her to Australia for further treatment and they and we are regretfully planning for this step to be taken later this year. Your continued prayers are requested for Jenni's return to full health and for the family as they face this upheaval after having given up so much to come out two years ago.

Mr & Mrs Glasgow have put a lot of very hard work into this place at a time of short-staffing and on top of it all Mr Glasgow produced our first magazine last term, against all the odds, when two others had failed before.

In a few months, we hope to welcome a married couple and a single man. The men are graduates, one in Arts and one in Science, and the wife is an old Hebron girl. Thank you Hebron!

This should leave us fully staffed, and with Mr Wood free to teach the piano.

Our first entries for the British G.C.E. sit next month starting May 24th. Unlike Hebron we were unable to separate the top two groups into a November sitting and a June sitting, so we opted for the latter. A parent whose boy had to leave then, aske9. for a November trial for the I.S.C. at his own risk, and so, to let the boys gain experience, we entered all in November.

Some were sitting a full year early. Three of the eight gained certificates, which is not a thrilling result, but we would ask you not to judge by last November. We are working for June.

Please note that the year is definitely from July to July. May entries are no longer acceptable and September entries are almost as unpopular. Mid-July is the time to aim for. February is the only alternative really favoured and, even this, comes far second to July.

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To our regret, and.to their own, the Smyths have decided it is right for them to move to the U.K. for family reasons, for an indefinite period. I have said before how much Mr Smyth's experience and judgement have meant to a new school and its finances and to its headmaster-also new and inexperienced. I mentioned last year how much the building owed to him, and we shall indeed miss him. We shall also lose a valued Art teacher and two valued parents.

Our furlough due, Mr Brinicombe, now head at Doveton Corrie and due to return to the U.K. has kindly consented to stand in.

(The manuscript from which this was typed ends here, with the exception of some notes jotted down at the foot of the page. It seems clear that Mr Darling intended to touch on several additional matters, in particular on the fact that Mr Brinicombe would be standing in as headmaster while Mr Darling was home on furlough. Ed.)

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ENTRANCES AND EXITS We bade au revoir to Mr & Mrs Darling, Philip and Lois on July 3rd in torrential rain. Mr Darling is now teaching in Bath. We look forward to their return at the end of June (D .V.) after, we hope, a refreshing time of reunion at home.

Mr Ingleby arrived in August just before the departure of Mr & Mrs Glasgow, Jenni and Roslyn. Jenni was looking remarkably fit although further treatment may be required in Melbourne. They were given a cheery send-off by staff and boys. We miss them greatly and wish them God's blessings in their homeland. Mr Ingleby had already settled in and proved his usefulness as senior English and History master-witness this magazine taken over from Mr Glasgow-when Mr & Mrs Hamilton, young Mark and little Katherine arrived at the beginning of September. Mr Hamilton is teaching maths meantime, setting Mr Wood free to do music and Mrs Hamilton is doing matron's duties in the senior dormitories.

Now at the end of term we say goodbye regretfully to Mr Wood, trusting that it is only au revoir. The choir is going from strength to strength and we are hoping to produce a record of the boys' singing which has been much enjoyed. We wish him God-speed and a safe return in the will of the Lord.

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Finally as we go to press we are looking forward to the return of Mr Smyth for a time at least. He hopes to see to the construction of the new kitchen and dining room block. To all these we wish God's richest blessing. May His guiding Hand be with them and us. Mispah.

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The Management Committee (The Committee is under the general direction of the Council which owns and operates both Hebron and Lushington.)

Chairman: Rev. W. G. Nelson Hon. Secretary: Mr A. Smyth Acting Secretary: Miss D. M. Hall Mr G. L. Fountain Rev. H. A. Huckett Headmaster: Mr R. T. S. Darling, M.Sc. Acting Headmaster: Mr T. J. Brinicombe, A.R.C.Sc.,M.Sc. The following have also served on this Committee: Rev. H. V. Fox Rev. H. Merriweather Rev. H. A. Pitts

PRESENT STAFF Teaching

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Mr A. J. Beattie, B.Sc. 1965-66 Mrs A. Brinicombe, M.A. 1966 Mr T. J. Brinicombe, A.R.C.Sc., M.Sc. 1966 Miss R. Enns, B.S. 1966 Mr C. Enos 1961-66 Mr N. Hamiltonf B.Sc. 1966 Rev. H. G. Iliff, M.A. (Cantab) 1963-65 Mr J. Ingleby, B.A., Dip. Ed. 1966 Miss R. Morrison 1966 Miss J. M. Sargant 1965-66 Miss M. Somerville , 1966 Miss D.R. Wagland, B.A., Dip. Ed. 1965-66 Mr B. Wood, M.A. 1966 Mr D. Wraight 1966 7

Boarding Miss A. M. Bateman

1961-2, 64-66 (Middle House) 1966 (Gardens and School Secretary) 1966 (Senior House) 1965-66 (Intermediate House) 1964-66 CJunior House) 1965-66 Housekeeper 1965-66 Nurse 1962-66 Accounts Officer Dr V. Rajagopalan Dr P.A. Johnson

Miss G. L. Culmer

Mrs J. Hamilton Miss M. Reid Miss R. M. J. Wilkins Miss A. Sherwood Miss D. E. Wishart, S.R.N. MrJ. Thomas School Doctor School Dentist

School Prefects, 1966 K. W. Anderson G. S. Schrag J. D. Twynam-Perkins R. Veigel Dormitory Prefects, 1966

Y. V. Chowdary C. B. Durman A. R. Reesor School List-Lushington Boys School September 1966 Date ofBirth ·Standard Anderson K. H. (Kenneth) 8- 5-50 x Bamber J.P. W. (Paul) 25- 1-58 IV Banks D. K. (David) 1- 7-53 IX Banks J. T. Gohn) 28- 9-60 I Barclay J. S. (John) 26- 1-54 VIII Bath H. I. (Howard) 14- 4-52 IX Bellingham S. M. (Stephen) 16- 2-57 v Bennett P. W. (Peter) 12- 2-60 II Bennett S. M. (Stephen) 13- 3-53 °VIII

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Bird P. I. (Phillip) Bird R. K. (Robert) Bone I. P. (Ian) Bone P. C. (Philip) Booth I . M . (Ian) Booth R. J. (Rodney) Brand D. C. (David) Brand G. P. (Gordon) Brand J. D. (John) Breeze A. W. (Andrew) Breeze P. S. (Paul) Brieseman N. (Nigel) Brown A. M . (Andrew) Brown P.A. (Peter) Chellew H. B. (Harry) Chittenden C. B. C. (Christopher) Chowdary D. D. (Chowdary) Chowdary Y. V. (Chowdary) Cochrane A. M. (Murray) Cole D. W. (David) Cole J.M. (Jonathon) Cole N. 0 . (Norwyn) Constable D. A. (David) Constable J. N. (John) Constable M. E. (Mark) Cranswick P. H. (Philip) Daniel B. (Benjamin) Daniel J. (Joseph) Davies J. G. (John) Duffin G. W. (George) Durman C. B. (Charles) Ferris A. (Alistair) Field G. R. (Graham) Field P. R. (Paul) Fordham D. J . (Douglas) Fox M. C. (Mark) Friebel G. A. (Gordon) Friebel S. A. (Steven) Froquet P. (Paul) Froquet P. (Pierre) Gall Q. W. P. (Quentin) Gill P. R. (Paul) Gillette P. G. (Paul) Gillette S. M. (Mark) Glover S. (Stephen) Grant A. M . (Andrew) Grant N. D. (Neil)

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Date of Birth Standard 26- 2-52 IX 29-11-56 v 24-11-51 IX 1- 6-56 v 17- 5-56 v 16-12-53 VIII 29- 6-58 I II 16-11-60 I 25- 3-60 I 18- 1-57 v 3- 8-57 IV 3- 6-60 II 7- 3-58 III 15- 9-51 IX 27- 7-54 VII 31-10-56 v 19- 9-61 I 16-12-57 IV 14- 2-61 •I 25- 4-60 I 28- 3-60 II 11- 2-61 I 11- 3-58 IV 9- 2-56 v 3- 4-56 v 6-10-57 IV 15-12-57 IV 25-11-55 v 17- 6-55 VI 30-10-54 VII 28- 9-53 VIII 31-12-55 VI 18- 3-55 VII 6-10-53 IX 10-8-58 III 6- 3-54 VIII 12-10-51 VIII 4 -5-61 I 14- 8-54 VIII 31-12-48 XI 26- 6-56 VI 8-10-53 IX 6- 4-56 VI 29- 8-55 v 1- 1-58 III 6-12-57 IV 12- 8-56 v

Griffiths G. F. (Graham) Hacking N. G. M. (Nicholas) Hamilton P. D. (Paul) Harris D. D. (David) Haworth N. M. (Neil) Homewood J. L. (John) Homewood R. C. (Raymond) Hay A. F. J. (Andrew) Hunter P. (Paul) Kemp Martyn (Martyn) Kiff P. D. (Peter) Kiff A. J. M. (Alan) King D. G. (David) Lee W. W. (Warwick) Lehman K. W. (Kenneth) Leonard J. D. (John) Leonard R. S. (Robert) Lyon D. A. (Andrew) McHarg T. A. (Terence) M acKenzie D. J. (Daniel) McMahon J. A. (John) McMillan P. W. (Paul) McMillan S. J. (Stephan) Mallick M. (Mahesh) Manson A. M. S. (Andrew) Martin P. J. (Peter) Miller C. N. (Christopher) Miller J. F. J. (John) Montgomery J. T. (John) Morris R. N . (Robert) Murison W.W. (Wallace) Napper P. R. (Paul) Neilsen P. D. Neilsen T. G. (Timothy) Nejedley S. D. (Stephen) Nicol M. A. (Michael) Noble K. (Kaikhusroo) (Kris) Overton P. (Philip) Parrish N. (Nigel) Patel R. J. (Rajani) Pattemore P. K. (Philip) Pattemore S. W. (Stephen) Payne I . W. (Ian) Probst F. (Franz) Probst K. (Kaspar) Pullen B. L. (Brian) Pullen K. A. (Kenneth)

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Gardens Senior Gardens Gardens D-Boy D-Boy Junior Junior Gardens Middle Junior Middle Senior Intermediate Gardens Junior Middle Junior Junior Junior Junior Middle Intermediate Intermediate Middle Middle Intermediate Intermediate Intermediate Senior Intermediate Intermediate Senior Middle D-Boy Senior Junior Intermediate D-Boy Gardens Senior Gardens Intermediate Middle Middle Gardens

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Pullenger S. K. (Stewart) Reesor A. R. (Allen) Reesor G. B. (Garth) .Reid G. C. (Graham) Rotheram D. (David) Ryall E. P. (Philip) Scheuermier U. (Ulrich) Schrag D. P. (Duane) Schrag G. S. (George) Schrag V. (Vorgil) Short J. L. (James) Skillicorn D. B. (David) Slack L. M. (Larry) Small N. J. (Noel) Stedman M. P. (Michael) Stedman R. S. (Richard) Stockley J. B. (James) Stockley P.A. (Philip) Streatfield D . C. (David) Streatfield P. M. P. (Peter) Streatfield R. N. (Robert) Streatfield C. F. (Christopher) Sutherland C. J. D. (Calum) Sutherland R. (Ruaridh) Taylor A. (Alan) Tiessen D. J. (Daryl) Trchala D. 0. (David) Treherne T. D. (Timothy) Turner D. G. (Donald) Turner G. W. (Gordon) Turner L. G. (Geoffrey) Turner P. D. (Paul) Turner P. T. (Philip) Twynam-Perkins G . P. (Graham) Twynam-Perkins J. D. (John) Tyman H. D. (Hugh) Veal P. L. (Luke) Veal P. R. (Peter) Veigel C. A. (Christoph) Veigel R. (Rupprecht) Walker R. J. J. (Johnston) Walker W. E. (Ernest) Wall M. T. (Martyn) Wall S. T. (Stephen) Wallis A. P. S. (Adrian) Wallis R. A. G. (Richard) Walshe A. D . (Douglas)

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Junior Senior Intermediate Junior Gardens Junior. . Intermediate Intermediate Senior Junior .M iddle Gardens Senior Gardens Middle Junior Intermediate Intermediate Junior Senior Intermediate Junior Senior Senior Intermediate Intermediate D-Boy Junior Intermediate Middle Senior Senior Gardens Senior Senior Junior Junior Middle Intermediate Senior Senior Senior Senior Junior D-Boy D-Boy Middle

Name Date of Birth Stan<lard House Warner P. M. (Paul) 21- 5-52 IX Senior Warner S. K. (Stephen) 4- 3-56 VI Intermediate Watson A. L. (Alan) 20- 9-54 VI Intermediate Watson B. (Bruce) 3-12-57 v l\iliddle Watson M. (Mark) 28-10-55 VI Intermediate Way D. V. (David) 26- 7-54 VII Intermediate Weavers C. M. (Christopher) 12- 3-56 VI Gardens Webb P. G. (Philip) 4- 6-56 VI Gardens Wells K. S. (Kenneth) 26-10-55 VI Gardens Wells P. M. (Peter) 13- 8-57 IV Middle Yearsley R. H. (Richard) 18- 7-57 v Middle

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LUSHINGTON SCHOOL DIARY 1966

January 16.

Mr D. Wraight arrived at Lushington from Gloucestershire, England.

25. Staff Prayer Meeting.

26. First Staff Business Meeting, 1966.

27. Mr Wraight accepted key of Bookroom.

28. Staff Outing-Cycle ride to Metty. 3 staff went. Mr Beattie, Mr Wraight and Miss Wishart. Miss Wilkins arrived back from New Zealand.

First Boy's trunks arrived belonging to John and David Tovey.

30. Hebron Staff had tea at Lushington.

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First Boys arrive. Landslide between Metty and Coonoor.

Therefore came by bus.

Landslide cleared. Boys by train all the way. Noble and Walshe by air arrived late.

First Cricket match of year.

Lushington turned Co-ed !

Miss Somerville arrived from Scotland.

First Service of the Year. Mr Fox preached. Sing Song at night.

School started in earnest.

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Mr Wood arrived from Britain. He had driven overland in a green Volkswagon. Mr Wood is a New Zealander: Senior Dorm's Master.

11. Staff Meeting.

14. Challenged to Cricket Match by Breeks. ..

17. Staff Party for Messrs Wood and Wraight and Miss Somerville.

22. Staff Practice for Cricket match versus the boys.

24. Staff vs Boys. Boys 53. Staff 73".

Staff. Mr Beattie top scorer 12 runs. Mr Darling stonewalled 10 runs retired. Revenge on Staff. Boys.

Top scorer Pelham. Pt. 11 ~ilns. .' · March 12. Miss Culmer arrived from England.

14. Lushington Sports Heats. ··-· 15. Lushington Sports Heats.

16. Lushington Boys School Sports. Blacks:. 204. Golds. t· 201.

Individual Champions: Seniors, B. Griffiths. Inters, G. Griffiths. Juniors, K. Noble.'• Sub Juniors, Campbell Smyth.

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April 2. Inter School Sports. Lawrence first in ijoys and Girls.

Lushington 10 pts. B. Griffiths, 2nd in 440 and 880, 3rd in Hurdles. J. Perkins 2nd in Hurdles.

7. Senior Dorm Camp went to Mukerti.

8. Good Friday. · 9. Nilgiri Peak Party feft.

10. Easter. Rescue of Nilgiri Peak Party.

11. All back at school.

26. Dress Rehearsal for Parents' Day Programme .

27. Visitors Day. 28. Parents Day. May holidays began at 12 p.m.

May 18. Miss Morrison and Miss Enns arrived.

20. Miss Gladwell and Miss Jackson left.

24. Boys arrived back. G.C.E. started.

25. School restarted. Parents afternoon.

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4. Swimming Sports.

19. Mr Smyth left for England.

24. Staff vs Boys at football. Staff 4. Boys 3.

27. Boys and Staff started to dig pitch.

28. G.C.E. finished.

July

1. Mr Brinicombe officially took over Lushington as acting Headmaster.

3. Mr Darling and family left for England.

4. Mrs Smyth and children left for England.

7. Football pitch shortened, grassing started.

8. End of school year.

11. Beginning of new year.

22. Started to clean swimming pool.

23. Limed pool.

23. Lushington vs Stanes at football.

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Mr Glasgow and Family left. Last 'Pokey Joke' Hebron-Lushington Social, also netball match. We lost 9-10.

Independence Day. Staff Play. The Ugly Duckling.

August holidays began.

Camp left.

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School reopened.

Lushington-Breeks Debate.

Staff 1. vs Boys. 3. at Hockey.

Lushington 1. vs. Breeks 0. Hockey.

Cross Country.

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PART II

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But zealous athletes play so rough; They do not ever in their dealings, Consider one another's feelings.

-OGDEN NASH,

Confessions of a Born Spectator

SPORTS REVIEW 1966 CRICKET Lack of practice equals lack of success. In the past Lushington has not taken cricket very seriously; this year, thanks to Mr Wood's training in bowling, batting and fielding, we have achieved a reasonable amount of success. We could only manage two outside fixtures: the first one with Breeks seniors, the second one with Stanes inters. The first game with Breeks we lost on the first innings, while we defeated the Stanes side. The results were: Breeks-70 all out, with F. Trchala distinguishing himself in the bowling. Lushingtoh 32 all out with K. Hoggart the outstanding batsman. Thanks to the bowling of P. Breeze and to the batting of G. Griffiths, we beat Stanes on the first innings.

ATHLETICS The first school athletics sports were held this year. These sports were welcomed with great enthusiasm and interest by both competitors and spectators. Outstanding performances were: B. Griffiths in the senior 440, F. Trchala in the senior high jump, R. Veigel in the hop-step and jump, senior, and K. Noble in the junior 220.

At Wellington we had little success owing to the lack of hard training. B. Griffiths was second in the 440 and the 880 senior, and J. Perkins was second in the junior hurdles. Specialist training in different events will lead to better performances.

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FOOTBALL This year we have had a reasonably successful season. The highlight was the defeat of the Breeks senior team for the first time, 2-1. We also had two rounds of house matches and numerous class games. When B. Griffiths, K. Hoggart and F. Trchala left us, we lost some of our leading players. Our junior team, trained by Mr Wraight, had encouraging success and promises well for the future.

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With the arrival of Mr Ingleby, the senior team tried the new 4-2-4 formation The new formation aroused much interest and its use next year will prove very interesting. Mr Ingleby's background of soccer will be of great value to school football in general.

RUGBY

This New Zealand game was introduced by Mr Wood to toughen the boys for football. Most of the boys enjoyed the new game, and some promising players, including R. Veigel, J. Walker, W. Murison and K. Noble emerged. Two house games were played and our boys were commended when they played a scratch game at the annual Nilgiris rugby tournament at the Wellington Gymkana Club.

J. TWYNAM-PERKINS, Std.XI (Mr Wood has added a report on the 1966 Cross Country) CROSS COUNTRY

This year's cross country saw for the first time a division into three sections. The same course as last year was used and saw a new senior record, and good times established for the other two divisions. Persistent rain made the course a slippery run, but three previous runs over the course acquainted most of the runners with a knowledge of the difficult sections. The senior race saw Griffiths win, as expected, but he was closely followed in by Anderson and Duffin, with Sutherland and Perkins also running well.

The intermediate race also followed forecasts with Constable and Homewood running very well to gain first and second places, a just reward for conscientious training. The surprise element in cross country running was illustrated by the placings of Chittenden, Turner, Streatfield, Wall and Friebel after the first two, none of whom being regarded as likely runners. Effort and determination often replace native ability in these runs. The junior race was a complete reversal of form in practice, as three of the favourites finished in the last three places, owing to injuries and other reasons. Christoph Veigel ran a well-judged steady race to finish ahead of G. Brand with Lehman, Napper and Schrag following. Other very creditable runs were those of N. Haworth and P. Stockley.

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GYMNASTICS DISPLAY On Parents' Day we held our first gym' display in which sixteen boys took part, with ages ranging from nine to seventeen.

After the initial warming up exercises, eight boys did four compulsory broad horse vaults, followed by four compulsory long horse vaults by the remaining eight.

Finally we watched eight voluntary vaults, including a thief vault, a somersault and a long fly, building up to the climax when three boys dived over the broad horse through a ring of fire.

HOUSE COMPETITION This year's competition between Gold and Black has seen a closely fought contest for the title of the champion house. Black narrowly won the Athletics sports, and easily won the swimming sports, but Gold galloped away in the cricket and rather dominated the football games. In both the rugby and the well-run crosscountry, points were evenly shared. Points so far: Athletics Cricket Swimming Football ~

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Here are two descriptions, one by a competitor and one by a spectator.

As the shot of the gun reformed my thoughts, Graham who was the first of our inter relay team tore round the first comer.

He was in the lead. As Walker gripped the baton I felt empty and weak with worry. It took Walker about eleven seconds to 19

run his hundred yards. Those eleven seconds seemed to me like eleven minutes, minutes of agony. But slowly he drew near me and at last I was off. Or was I? It had been a glorious day. We had left Lusby at eightthirty a.m., caught the train to Aravankadu and by one-fifteen we were dressed in whites and ready for the march past. 'But where was Hebron?'

I thought. Late, as usual. Just then Hebron appeared and took their places second from the front and we took our places second from the back. We had three points which Bernard Griffiths h ad won us in the 800, while Lawrence had seventy-eight!

Next moment the Lawrence band came marching out of their tent. They were perfectly in step and their uniforms shone brightly. As the band positioned themselves at the front of the competitors, we marked time and then marched round the track twice; we then stopped in front of the grandstand. The leader of last year's winning team took the oath. After a small speech the sports began.

Race after race Lawrence was getting first place and St J oseph's second or third and often Lushy fourth! Then to our great joy Bernard reached the tape second in the 400 and third in the hurdles. And to our amazement Perkins came second in the inter-hurdles. We now had ten points. Lawrence had one hundred and thirty two which w~ double St Joseph who were second. In the girls Hebron and Lawrence were almost equal but Lawrence drew away and beat Hebron by ten points.

There now only remained the relays to be run off. There were ten sets of relays, each four hundred yards long and each race having four runners. The junior boys were off. Lushy was keeping up but a bad take-over lost us the race. Then came the junior girls and to our excitement Hebron got a place. ¡ As Walker handed the baton to me, I slipped a bit, but soon picked up. All the schools were about equal but I had the outside track, and therefore the largest distance to run. When Anderson took over the baton from me, I walked off disappointed, but I knew we could not always win.

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Std. IX

When the train arrived at Aravankadu we walked all the way down to Wellington Sports field where the sports were to be held.

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We arrived there and found no tents except for those provided for the girls and for the athletes so we had to sit out in the boiling sun for two hours until the sports begun. Ai; we were waiting some of us saw our sisters and brothers and chatted with them for a little while till they had to go.

Out from their tent came the Lawrence band. They were very neat and smartly dressed in khaki and the main drummer had a tiger skin around him and they were well educated players.

When the races started the first race was the 400 metres for the seniors and Lusby came second, so that started off our points.

There was a lot of shouting as the races were on. While the races were on we ate our food and about halfway through the sports we all ran out of water and the news got round to Hebron so they kindly filled our water bottles to keep us going. Last of all the races were the relays and they were great fun except that Lusby did not get any places at all.

The final march past had now come and Lusby was the second last rank and again the band marched out and started them off. When they stopped the prize giving was held and lots of schools got cups and certificates and Leslie Payne from Hebron was among the prize winners and had broken four records. At the end they played the Jana-Gana-Mana to end the sports.

We walked back to Aravankadu and got the train back to Ooty and walked back to Lusby.

GORDON BRAND, Std. VII

THE SWIMMING SPORTS The Swimming Sports always seem to make a vivid splash in the memories of the spectators.

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Splash! James Stockley dived into the pool for the underwater event. A line of bubbles marked his trail. A slight splash showed that he had reached the end of the pool. He turned and came up a few yards away from the end, red in the face and breathing heavily. Everyone thought that he would certainly win, but they were wrong. Murray Smyth was determined to do even better, and he did.

The 200 yards senior free-style. Only two boys had entered, A!;hley Smyth and Philip Pelham. Mr Wraight started them and 21

Ashley took the lead¡. Soon he was almost a length ahead, and as they crossed in the middle, Philip started yelling encouragement to Ashley I Ashley won the race by a length.

Later the diving competition started. Ashley came first with some good dives. In the intermediates Calum Sutherland came first. He did some superb dives, among which was a beautiful swallow dive.

The Black and Gold relay. Clap! Mr Smyth started us.

For the first length I was against Andrew Warlow. The crowd was urging us on. We pulled ourselves out at the opposite end while our partners carried on our work. The people cheering for Blacks yelled with delight when we came first. _ When everything was over, Mr Smyth thanked everyone for coming, thus ending the Swimming Sports.

PHILIP BoNE, Std. VIII Here is a rather more detailed account.

'On your marks.' 'Set'. ' Go!' The inter twenty-five yards freestyle is under way. Graham Griffiths in the lead and Johnston Walker behind him, the rest are yards behind them and somewhere in the middle of that group is Sutherland. Graham Griffiths reaches the end first, then Johnston Walker and then a Gold.

Now the senior hundred yards with only two competitors, Smyth and Pelham. The race is started and Smyth takes the lead from the beginning. They swim on and Smyth has done three lengths with Pelham halfway on his third. Smyth turns round to swim his last lap. He touches the end leaving Pelham some twenty yards behind. Pelham now battles for the end and amidst cheering and clapping touches the end.

Now a great cheer goes up from the crowd as the swimmers take their places for the Beginners' Width. They all jump in and Probst a little chap from Switzerland swims to the other side a yard ahead of the next swimmer.

Some more finals take place now and as usual Blacks win.

The score is something like 95-49 . The final races take place and Blacks have won the day, the score at about 120-57.

Finally the highlight of the day-the Borneo Bridge. The two opponents edge their way along the pole with their sacks.

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Again one falls and manages to hold on with his feet. He works his way away from his opponent until he is stopped. He then pulls the other fellow over so they are in the same state. They both lock together, both fall and it is called a draw.

More people face each other and then the sports end. The visitors leave and peace returns to the pool.

GRAHAM: TwYNHAM- PERKINS, Std. IX There is no doubt which event this spectator thought the most exciting.

When they had the Swimming Sports at Lushington they had swimming races and relays and the Borneo Bridge. It was very funny when they fell into the swimming pool and the pillows floated away. Then they had to push each other off the pole and into the water.

CHRISTOPHRE MILLER, Std. VI FOOTBALL MATCHES Football is the most popular sport in the school and our first writer catches the excitement and tension of a 1st XI match against powerful opposition.

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Against adverse conditions, against the most powerful team in the league, our team fought. And though the odds were all against them they were rewarded with an even score.

The St Joseph's team had trotted onto the pitch with the confidence of victory overshadowed only by the sight of the playing ground-filled with ruts, stones, tufts of grass, and with the overall slope enough to put the great Pele off-balance. I watched with anxiety as our boys lined up uncertainly for the kick-off. Five minutes from the start found St Joseph's in the shadow of the Lushington goal-posts. We almost expected the neat goal that followed.

Then quite suddenly came the rain. Not a miserable drizzle, or even a shower. It rushed down, clawing with icy :fingers, 23

reducing visibility to a mere ten yards. Our boys fought back hard, partly to even the score, partly to show a good spirit, but mainly to stave off the oncoming cold, and then, miraculously, a fifteen-yard kick bounced off the goal-post and into the net. We had equalised I But the game was not over. Despite the miserable weather St Joseph used their passing skill to advantage and at half time the score was two-one against us.

Our spirits came down with the rain as we peered through the downpour at the closing minutes of the game-and then, to St J oseph's disbelief and mine, our boys broke through the airtight defence and were given a direct penalty from twelve yards. Everyone forgot the rain as Graham came ¡up for the shot, a moment of horror as the keeper fumbled the slippery sphere, and then thunderous applause as it trickled into the corner of the net. The game soon ended and although our team had not won, they had fought well, and, best of all, they had not lost.

GEORGE SCHRAG, Std. XI Our second writer describes a rather different game, but less important in its own way.

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In the morning after break it started. And when the game had finished the score was one, nothing.

-IAN BOOTH, Std. v

RESULTS SECTION Inter-House Athletic Sports Senior High Jump. 1. F. Trchala 2. R. Veigel 3. K. Hoggart 5' Intermediate High Jump. 1. G. Griffiths 2. J. Turner 3. S. Bennett 4' 9l".

Junior High Jump. 1. P. Breeze 2. H. Bath 3. P. T. Pelham 4' 5" Sub-Junior High Jump. 1. C . Smyth 2. C. Veigel 3. S. Friebel 3' 11" Sub-Junior 50 m. 1. C. Veigel 2. M . O'Shaughnessy 3. M. Kemp 8.2 sec.

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Intermediate 100 m. 1. K. Anderson 2. J. Walker 3. D. Gallagher 14.2 sec.

Senior 100 m. 1. C. Copley 2. R. Veigel 3. M. Kitchen 12.2 sec.

1. C. Copley 2 . F. Trchala · 3. A. Smyth 68' 3t'" Intertn{?diate Disgl$,_ 1. D. Fot_d.\1am 2. J. Walker 3. D. Gallagher 73'2". · Sub-Junior 100 m. 1. M , Kemp 2. Smyth 3. G. Brand 35.2 sec.

Junior 400 m. 1. V. Chowdary 2. J . Rutherford 3. B. Tarter 74.2 sec.

Intermediate 800 m. 1. G. Griffiths 2. G. Duffin 3. A. Reesor . 2 min. 43 ..4 sec.

Senior 800 m. 1. B. Griffiths 2. G. Schrag 3. J .'Turner ~min.

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Senior Long-Jump. 1. F. Trchala 2. B. Griffiths 3. K. Hoggart 17'10" Intermediate Long-Jump. 1. D. Gallagher 2. W. Lee 13' Junior Long-Jump. l. J. Gallagher 2. J. Twynam-Perkins · 3. A. Wilkinson 13'6" Sub":.Junior Lorig-Jump. 1. R. Streatfield 2. A. Watson 3.

J . Stockley 10'9w Suh-Junior 100 m. 1. C. Smyth 2. C. Veigel 3. P. Napper 15.6 sec.

Junior 200 m. 1. K. Noble 2. C. Chittenden 3. S. Glover 30.6 sec. .

Intermediate 200 m. 1. K. Anderson 2. D. Gallagher 3.

R. Wallis 29.8 sec.

Senior 200 m. f. C. Copley 2. B. Griffiths 3. R. Veigel 26.4 sec.

Senior Shot-put. 1. F. Trchala 2. C. Copley 3. B. Griffiths 33' intermediate Shot-put. l. D. Fordham 2. J. Walker 3. D. Gallagher 20'4!"

Junior Hurdles. 1. K. Noble 2. J. Twynam-Perk.ins 3. L. Slack 9.6 sec.

Intermediate Hurdles. 1. G. Griffiths 2. K. Anderson 3. J. Walker 13.2 sec.

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Senior 400 m. 1. B. Griffiths 2. G. Schrag 3. C. Copley 62.8 sec.

Senior Pole Vault. 1. G. Schrag 5'0..

Intermediate Pole Vault. 1. P. Pelham 2. J. Turner 3. M. Smyth 5'8..

Sub-Junior Relay. 1. Gold 2. Black 64.6 sec.

Junior Relay. 1. Gold 2. Black 61.0 sec.

Intermediate Relay. 1. Black 2. Gold 58.6 sec.

Senio~ Relay. 1. Gold 2. Black 55.6 sec.

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House Points.

Black 204

Gold 201

Inter-House Swimming Sports Underwater.

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Intermediate 25. 1. G. Griffiths 2. D. Gallagher 3. A. Reesor 16.2 sec.

Junior 25. 1. E. Walker 2. A. Watson 3. A. Warlow 17.6 sec.

Sub-Junior 25. 1. P. Stockley 2. I. Whitfield 3. J. Montgomery 19.4 sec.

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Sub-Junior breaststroke. 1. N. Howarth 2. P. Napper 3. E. Scheuemeier 29 .0 sec.

Senior backstroke. 1. K. Anderson.

Intermediate backstroke. 1. M. Smyth 2. S. Bennett 3. G. Turner 21.4 sec.

Junior bachstroke. 1. J. Barclay 2. W. Walker 3. J. Constable · 24.0 sec.

Sub-Junior backstroke: 1. N. Haworth 2: J. Crook 3. M. Constable 25.0 Senior 50. 1. A. Smyth 2. K. Anderson 3. 31.8 sec.

Intermediate 50. 1. G. Griffiths 2. M. Smyth 3. S. Bennett 36.0 Junior 50. 1. A. Warlow 2. E . Walker 44.6 sec.

Senior 100. 1. A. Smyth 2. Pl Pelham 75 sec.

Intermediate 100. 1. G. Griffiths 2. J. Walker 3. G. Turner 86.8 sec.

Senior diving. 1. A. Smyth.

Intermediate diving. 1. C. Sutherland 2. S. Bennett 3. J. Rutherford Junior diving. 1. P. Bone 2. A. Warlow 3. P. Breeze Sub-Junior diving. 1. P. Whitfield 2. N. Small 3. D. Harris Senior and intermediate relay. 1. Black 2. Gold Junior and Sub'-Junior relay.. 1. Black 2. Gold

Records. Senior breaststroke. R. Veigel 2.1.4 sec.

Intermediate breaststroke. J. Walker 20.8 sec.

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P. Napper 5. D. Schrag 6. N. Haworth 7. P. Stockley 8. S. Friebel 9. J. Stockley 10. A. Taylor 11. J. Daniel 12. G. Reesor 13. D. Brand 14. U. Scheuermeier 15. J. Brand.

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SCHOOL DAYS

You dreamt you waked up at seven o'dock and it's foggy and it's damp and it's dawn and it's dark

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There is something in each of the following extracts, though they are diverse in subject arul author, that catches the spirit of life at a boarding school.

It was only a week till the holidays and I was extremely excited.

We were all packing and instead of doing school work we were playing games.

Two days before the holidays I received a telegram and as I saw the worÂľs I felt unhappy, because my mother was seriously ill and I had to stay at school. When all the other boys walked down to the station two days later I didn't feel happy at all. l was so worried about my mother, I couldn't get to sleep that night.

I hoped she would get better soon and then I would be able to go home.

Three days later another telegram arrived and I opened it> hoping it was good news and not bad. To my great joy, I read that my mother was very much better and that my dad was coming up here to take me home.

PAUL BREEZE, Std. VIII On Saturday night Middle Dorm had a party. First of all we had some games. Mr Wraight did the games. Then we went into Miss Bateman's room and had the party. We had a teepee with a biscuit underneath it, and a canoe with little sweets in it and a lollipop for the paddle. And a slice of bread with something sweet and green on it for the lake. And a fish with a turkey egg in it. And at the end we gave three cheers for Miss Bateman.

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It was the day that the juniors arrived.

'I've already been to school today' he said at 10.45, trying to get a hold on his play-clothes.

First day at school proved challenging to some, but the right world for others. But boring? Never! I Especially for junior matrons and teachers.

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Cars arrived and rounded. Junior eyes were everywhere.

One sat still staring, while another slung stones at seniors. Bruised shins wandered about.

Sunset watched the parents leave.

Instantly Philip dived under the pillow. H e emerged bright-eyed with a box of crayons.

In the dar,kened dorm a stifled whimper was hard. The sound strengthened and found its echo a few beds away.-Oh to be matron!

JENNI GLASGOW, Std. >}(/

IT WAS THE MONSOON I Most people in India long for the cool weather of tlze Hills and are delighted when it rains. Lu.shy students sometimes have a different view of the matter.

It was a rainy day, and that day the Sub-junior football match was to be held on the Junior pitch. There were big puddles all qver the grass and at the end of the match they all agreed to have a water-fight. So they did, and they came up the drive soaking wet.

It was the monsoon.

We carry our books down to ~he class and loose pieces of paper fall out and get blowJ1 away with the wind and the books get all wet in the rain. It was the monsoon.

One night when we were asleep a tree falls down across an electric wire and when Mr Smyth touched it the next day he got a shock from it. It was the monsoon . .One Saturday when we were allowed to go down town, it was raining hard and John Montgomery was walking along the road and fell into a gutter and when he got out he was soaked from shoulders to feet. It was the monsoon!

GORDON BRAND,

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'Aw, look at that, will you? It's raining again'. Sure enough, while the class sits, numb with cold, the continuous rain comes down. After a time that seems everlasting the bell goes for the end of the period. There is a rush as everyone begins to put their books back in their desks, and then a scramble up the stairs while boys are slipping and skidding on the wet stairs with the rain 32

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Down they go to the pitch. They wait for about fifteen minutes in the cold, drizzling rain until the referee comes down.

It rains all through the game and at the end all the miserable soaked players trudge back up to the dorm.

Everyone has gone to bed. It is still raining and the dorm is silent except for the miserable rain rhythmically patting on the roof.

DOUGLAS FORDHAM, Std. X

THE MONSOON Roar roar roaring Pour pour pouring Comes the monsoon.

Splashing and dashing Lashing and thrashing Comes the monsoon rain.

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Drooping and stooping Breaking and falling Go the trees as they bend.

Thundering and blundering Howling and growling Comes the monsoon rain.

K. WELLS, Std. VI

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TO class, to class, my lazy boys !

Your work waits on your desks; Full twenty thousand difficult sums The teacher of Five has set.

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To lunch, to lunch, my hungry boys I Your lunch waits on your plate; A worm in your spud or in your fruit Is certainly a horrible fate.

JOHN MONTGOMERY,

Std. VII

Oh, give me a home Oh, give me a home Where the Toda Buffs roam Where the fences are never intact, Where up on the mat You'll hear the impact Of a cutch on the seat of my daks.

Chorus Home, home in dear Lush Where the grounds are nearly all slush .

Where seldom is seen Hands and knees very clean And the matrons are all in a rush.

Oh, give me a school With a clean swimming pool, With a field that's so level and green, Where the food is so nice And the beds have no lice And the 'dames' are the best we have seen.

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ANONYMOUS

School School is a terrible waste of time, And also a horrible bore, We have to think out awful things Or else our back-sides get sore.

English is terrible, Maths even worse French is the thing I'd well like to curse.

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Geog is boring; we get History too much, Latin I think is just plain double-clutch, In singing we sing so our lungs nearly burst, But Algebra really I think is the worst.

But the really bad thing in the Lushington trade, Is although we work hard we don't even get paid I P. PATTEMORE, Std. VI

Perks One night in Prep To the door Perks crept Looked through the window and said, Monty you fool, I'm going to be cruel You'll do me some lines Or a poem that rhymes.

J. MONTGOMERY, Std. VI {This is it. Ed.) EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Here is a report on the camp at Masanagudi during the August holidays this year.

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On Monday the 29th, we went to the bus stand. We took a bus to Masanagudi which is near Mudumulai Sanctuary at two-thirty and arrived at six-ten. We had supper etc. On Tuesday 30th we went for a walk to the place where Bath was chased by a rogue elephant in August 1964. Then we explored the surroundings of the hut and played catch on a pylon. We had supper etc. On our third day, Mr Wood {our master in charge) and a few others, hired a tracker which led them to three elephants (two females and one baby tusker). Then they came back very happy, while the others were not very happy for not going with them I We had supper and played games which Mr Wood organised. Thursday September lst, we got up at 3.40 a.m. and quickly got dressed and walked eight miles from Masanagudi to Cargudi. Most of six hundred elephants were between Masanagudi and Theppakadu; during the walk we saw 35

bison and some saw an elephant while the rest heard it. When we arrived we found that only one jeep was available, so the jeep made the trip twice. We do not know what happened on the first, but on the second we saw at least 60 deer and about 40 bison, plenty of monkeys, a malabar, a squirrel and a tame elephant with people on it going for a ride, who did not see a thing. We went back to the camp and so to bed early.

On Friday everybody went for a walk with the same tracker, into the jungle and we heard falling bamboo. 'Elephant' whispered the tracker. The tracker did a beedi to find the directions of the wind by the smoke. It was O.K. We went on and after a few minutes came across a newly-born fawn, about half-an-hour old. We went on and saw some bison and then the tracker found fresh elephant tracks and its dung. We followed the fresh dung and finally came across a well-known, one and a half tusker-a rogue. We ran I As soon as we got onto the nearby road, we waited for a while and then went back into the jungle. The tracker saw the elephant coming towards us and we ran again. He said the elephant would cross the road but it did not. We went home happy, had lunch and supper and had a quiz, and then went to bed quite early. ¡ On Saturday 3rd six boys went on the bus, while the remaining eleven walked. The walk was good fun. We stopped every hour and at every stream and at two tea stalls on the way. We arrived at Lusby dead beat and famished and ate the left-overs of the staff.

Y. v. CHOWDARY AND P. s. STREATFIELD, Std. IX The school choir is also a very successful extra-curricular activity.

It was half way through the first term of 1966 that Mr Wood first suggested to the school a Lushington choir.

A lot of boys were interested and Mr Wood was glad to see their enthusiasm. In a very short while, the amateur group of singers had learnt the fundamentals of the new art. After the experience of singing in church, we started to learn a few of the Messiah pieces in preparation for Speech Day. With much practice and time the choir played a very satisfactory part when the big day came.

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Negro spirituals were our next project. T hey turned out to be more popular amongst the boys and on several occasions, including the Scripture Union rally, people showed signs of enjoying the performances.

During the week we spend about two hours in several practice sessions. Mr Wood's aim is to raise our standard above the average level. Future assignments look promising. We. will be singing other Messiah choruses, an d towards the end of term, closer to Christmas we will sing familiar carols with different arrangements. Recitals will take place in different churches and halls. We have high aims and high aims we will achieve.

We must all say and show our thanks to Mr Wood ou r conductor, by putting the best of our talents into the work. We sing because of the meaning behind the songs, so above all we sing our thanks; and we praise God in our song.

G. SCHRAG AND K. ANDERSON, Std. XI Std. x

There is also a flourishing Scripture Union group at Lushington and this is a description of the Scripture Union picnic.

On the 30th October some members of the S.U. in Lushington went for a picnic on the top of Snowdon. We climbed and climbed. When we got on top Miss Jackson our S. U. organizer gave us a treasure hunt. We had to find a partner. My partner was Philip Pattermore. We then had to find four different kinds of stones, leaves, flowers etc. We came first. We got a lovely chocolate biscuit when we got back.

K. WELLS, Std. V I YOU'RE JOKING

Satire is the most common f orm of humour to be found in a School Magazine. That does not mean to say that it is easy.

These two items succeed, in my opinion, because they deal with the well-known details of a schoolboy's life. To catch the full 'flavour' of the first piece, it is necessary to know that the author entitled it, quite simply 'H 2 S'.

Some talk of S0 2 and some of chlorine, of ammonia and nitrogen and such gases as these. But of all the science lab 37

gases there's none that can. compare with the pungent potent smell ofH2S. 'Iron sulphide, cone. HCl ', a whispered chuckle comes from the Irish scientist as he completes the last stage of his evil plot to overpower Lushington. The count-down begins. Ten. .. . nine ... eight ... sev---. Peeyew! Suddenly we are enveloped like a letter in a smell classified as pungent, rather sweet tasting.

One command goes through the brain-filled head of Gallagher.

'Open the window!' Stumbling, falling, tripping, groping, he finally opens the window. 'Fresh air. Oh boy. Whew!'

Along the passage looms the unforgetable shape of Mr Iliff.

He walks into the smell. 'Pooh! What a smell', <licit, 'like a dentist's sh op. Can't you do something'. Now we see his back hurrying along the corridor and he is lost to sight.

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The title for this one wa.s 'The Old School Tie'.

Usually not in very good condition. As one of the boys born barely bareable pulled a heavy trunk up into one of the lofty lofts, the knots held. But only just . What was h olding the trunk up?

The old school tie, of course. Usually not in very good condition.

In another part of this frighteningly famous school, there was a tug of war. It did not last long. Yellow and black pieces of rope went strewing all over the place. A poor little boy wailed.

'My tie, my tie' . Usually not in very good condition.

'Brown, your shoes shine superbly today. How come?' demanded a duty master. Around the victim's neck hung a piece of yellow and black cloth. But on the yellow, just visible strips, you could notice black splotches. Usually not in very good condition.

At supper in a boy's plate there seemed to be a black snake in his soup. But after a closer look you may notice that the snake had yellow on its back and at one end of the plate (if a plate has an end) the body of the snake went upward and seemed to end at the boy's throat. Was it choking him? Usually not in very good condition .

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The stones at the bottom of our school pitch were a menace to everything. They were terrible for our athletics practice for the sports, because your spikes got damaged. If you fell on them when playing football or hockey, you would be bruised and scarred all over.

About five weeks after we came back from the May holidays, Mr Wood decided that the stones would have to go. So in almost every Maths and P.T. lesson you would see at least one class working hard with picks and other digging implements while some other boys collected the stones in boxes and buckets and dumped them over the fence at the far end of the pitch. There was one big box nicknamed the 'coffin', and it took ab out four boys to carry it wh en it was half full. No one liked the coffin because it meant hard work for those involved, but we had to use it. After a while nobody liked working on the pitch. Another ally of Mr Wood and Mr Wraight was the rain. We would be working on the pitch in high spirits when suddenly we were showered by the light fine rain. Our clothes would soon be wet and soggy ; then at the end of the lesson we would walk to the dorm in a wet and bedraggled state.

After about a week the stones were all cleared and then we had to roll the pitch. Mr Wood had decided to grass the pitch and we were told to roll it before the grass was put in. After we had rolled it for two days, Mr Wood was told that the pitch should not be rolled, so all of us trooped back out to the pitch in Maths and P.T. lessons to dig up all that we had rolled. But we also had to dig up another area about the same size, for planting grass in. s. GLOVER, Std. VIII 39

The pool was filthy, green with slime, and had leaves and a layer of rubbish on the bottom. Our nurse Miss Wishart did not like the idea of our swimming in a water-logged rubbish dump, so she decided to get it cleahed out.

On the 22nd of July, 1966 we got to work. First with the help of the siphons and the pool's outlet, we emptied the pool.

We had to put a wooden wedge in the inlet pipe to stop water corning in while the water was draining out.

About twenty-five of us with gumboots, and clothes that we could get really dirty, came with buckets, scrubbing brushes, stick brooms and spades. First we filled our buckets with slime from the bottom of the empty pool, and formed a human chain along which we passed the rubbish-filled buckets. At the end of the chain the slime was dumped into the bushes. My job .was to wait for the full buckets to be carried to the side of the empty pool where they were handed up to me and a few others who carried them to the bushes and poured out the slime, sticks and . leaves. .

In about three-quarters of an hour we had cleared the bulk of the slime and the inlet was opened so that we could have water to wash the sides and floor of the pool. The bucket and brushes were washed, then we filled the buckets and splashed the water over the pool and scrubbed like anything . When we had scrubbed the dirt onto the floor of the pool, we just splashed water onto the bottom, and let it wash the dirt and mud through the outlet.

We had cleaned the pool and then we had our fun. We skidded and slid on the wet concrete and splashed buckets of water at each other. We went back to our dormitories wet, slimy, and caked with mud. But it was worth it.

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All I can say about this section is that it is all true.

Ouch! Scram I Meeeeowwwww !

A torch's beam stabbed the darkness and pinpointed Bennett in his pyjamas with his pillow in his hand. Walker dived under the blankets.

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One night I was woken by somebody shouting. He was saying a tree was falling on him and it was pushing him into the ground. Then he screamed and that was the last I heard of him that night. Another night the boy sleeping next to me jumped out of bed, picked up all the blankets and went to the end of the dorm where there was a spare bed. He pulled his blankets round him and lay down on the bed where he slept the rest of the night and then wondered what he was doing there when he woke up.

Often at night you are awoken by grunts, thumps, bumps, unknown words, snores, groans, and moans and so it is not very often that one gets a peaceful night in the Lushy dormitory.

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Bang, whiz, whoosh, phatoomph.

'Watch out, a torped's heading for you.'

'Watch what you're doing, you threw that lighted monkey bomb at me!' another voice exclaimed.

Another: 'Hey, you're jolly dangerous. That was a large size squib you threw at me not a sparkler!'

'Watch out, here goes an elephant, tiger, monkey and zebra bomb together. My new experiment.'

'And here goes three aeroplanes.'

'And here goes my fantastic rocket.'

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It was Guy Fawkes and everyone was getting excited. There were whizzes from aeroplanes, whooshes from rockets, bangs from bombs and squibs, and stars from sparklers. Suddenly a clear sound came above the noise. Whirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Whirrrrrrrrr. Whirrrrrrrrrrrrr. It was the whistle. Everybody knew what it n;ieant. It meant that everybody went to the Guy for the bonfire. There were bangs and whirrs from every part of the Guy. Soon it was time for Middle-Dorm to go. It was quite sad not to see the end of the bonfire, but it was quite fun while we were there. Everybody was sad that Guy Fawkes was over .

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FANCY DRESS

As might be expected, most of the contributions on the Fancy Dress party came from the Junior school. Here are three of them.

Three ch eers it was fancy dress time. Miss Bateman gave us our costume~. We went down to the gym. When we had paraded we played dog and the bone. Number 11. That's Tovey.

Yay, he got it. After that I ate so much I was practically sick.

Then Mr Foster spread sweets around. Then we went when he blew the whistle and grabbed them. Also we had a lucky dip.

I got a book. Afterwards we played some more games and then went up to bed.

STEPHEN wAlâ&#x201E;˘ER, Std. VI I was told to go outside and one of the boys picked something in the roo.m. Then a boy told me to come in and guess what it was that they had picked. I got it right because there is something black before it. Miss Wilkins got a prize. She got some porridge for her teddy-bear and her doll.

D AVID HARRIS, Std. v We were all putting our Fancy Dress on for supper. One boy was a chimney sweep, another a castor oil bottle. I was Caesar. A bell rang and we all went into the dining-room.

Then we went and sat down. First we had some tomato soup, then rice and chicken. For pudding I got 5 n.p. in my stodge.

After supper we went down to the gym. We paraded around for a while and then had games. At the end we had coffee and cakes and then went to bed. (T he 'stodge' was supposed to be Christmas Pudding. Somebody must have slipped up somewhere. Ed.) ANDREW BREEZE, Std. VI THE COMET

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Second was Perkins who fell asleep on his watch. Next was Posy, then Chitty and then I. Somehow we managed to get up at a quarter past four.

When we did get up we walked along in darkness till we got to the door and then turned on our torches to unlock the door and climb over the wall. Looking up into the sky we just saw the end of the tail of the comet disappearing over the ends of the trees.

We were all disappointed about the whole affair.

So the next night we got up at ten to four. We got over the wall again and the whole sky was bright with the light of the tail of_ the comet.

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We decided that we would look at it the following morning.

We tried different things to wake us up at four thirty like banging our heads on the pillows four times and writing the figure four on our heads in cold water. Breeze woke at about quarter past four and got us up. We went in to the quad and looked but could not see it. So we decided to go out on the bank. We trudged along the dorm to the door and we made a loud noise opening it. It squeaked and rattled and then someone went and kicked it open.

We all jumped out onto the bank and looked but saw nothing.

We talked for a while and then went back to the dorm with our spirits dampened. Somebody said: 'Let's come out in quarter of an hour'. We did come out and this time we saw it. We all rushed to the front of the school and there it was I Like a searchlight cutting through the sky. It was nearly transparent and it looked as if it was made of small dots. You could not see it move but it started thin and got thicker as it neared the end. We stood watching it for a couple of minutes, talking about it and wondering how wide it was; wondering what would happen if a master happened to come and see us. After looking at it we returned to 43

the dorm and¡Walker stumbled over the step to the door. There was a round of laughter as the different boys went to their beds.

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The comet was a piece of the sun and was nearly as big as the earth. The first time I saw the comet was when I was in Coonoor for the month-end. At about 2.30 a.m., we all went out and saw the comet just before it disappeared behind a hill. When the main star of the comet disappeared and only the long tail was left, we got into the car and drove round the hill and looked at the comet through binoculars, because the sun would rise in about half and hour and the comet was fading in the dim light.

When I got back to school from Coonoor and told the other boys about it, everyone was asking me questions about it. That night some of my friends and I kept watch for one hour each until about 2.30 a.m., then we all went out and looked for the comet, but it was just too late because the main star was behind a hill.

This happened for the next two nights and then the comet disappeared. So we never saw the comet again.

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TALKING IN PREP Our first two contributors under this heading are describing the same event. The judicious historiatt will no doubt be inclined to sift the evidence be/ ore he arrives at his final version.

It all started with someone asking which king was fighting in the Battle of Bannockburn. I said it was Edward I and Goofy said it was Edward II. We were just having a million chip bet and Henry the Last caught us. On the whole it turned out all right. I was wrong but in the exam it helped me to remember very well. Really it was Edward II and not Edward I. Lucky we were caught as I would have had to give him a million chips and would have taken me a long time to count them out.

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Our third contributor, who is anonymous, would appear to be a penitent?

It is important not to talk in prep as it disturbs other people.

And it also brings punishments like lines etc. Now some masters, teachers, prefects, are very fond of giving lines, so it is best not to talk in prep. Many people think it is funny, but it can lead to the cane, which has the most unpleasant feeling you could possibly imagine. Sometimes it can hurt for a while but after all it does help. So that is why it is hest not to talk in prep.

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The last seven miles of treking over hill and dale had left the nine hardy campers half dead from exhaustion. The sight of this lump of rock gave them new energy. To Veigel, Duffin, Chowdary, Anderson, Noble, Chittenden, Pelham D. and Pelham P. this was the beginning of a long, long walk.

With this new energy we set off, Mr Wood in the lead. For the next half mile vie climbed steadily up a burnt grass-covered hill. When we reached µie top we had a short rest and a look at Mysore more than a mile below us. Then off again up to the top we climbed and staggered. At long last we reached a flat part.

In front of us was a gendarme, a huge pillar of rock, difficult for us to go round and almost impossible for us to go over. We stopped for our lunch while Mr Wood set off to see if there was another way to the summit . Before long he came back, and off we set, down the valley to a waterfall at the other side. The journey became more and more like jungle exploring than mountaineering as we went on. D arkness began to fall and Mr Wood called a halt.

We descended again clambering down the slippery rocks until we came to a large waterfall which we managed to get down by using the ropes. We reached the bottom just as darkness fell.

After half and hour slipping and crawling through the wet jungle we gave up, and with the help of a friendly coolie and with Veigel translating, we set off for the nearest village. We were afterwards told that a pair of large eyes followed us through the jungle! After half an hour of arguing at the village, for we had no money, we managed to get some tea and some bread and a place to sleep.

Next morning we rose early, still stiff from the night before, waved good-bye to the villagers and set off through the woods.

The ten mile hike home was just short of sheer murder. With half hour marches and ten minute stops we continued for over four hours. On the last few miles we met the rescue party. We flopped down with joy, and the knowledge of the food to come.

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G. DUFFIN, Std. x

AN INDIAN ROAD The endless fields of paddy were on either side of me as I started down an Indian road. The mist was rising off the ground.

An occasional farmer would stare at me as if I was a ghost. Behind me I heard the sound of a lorry. It came past me, raising up clouds of dust, and its exhaust filling the air with the smell of diesel.

I could hear the sound of a cock crowing and birds twittering in the trees beside me. The fields came to an end and I came into a forest. A rustle of leaves often aroused my attention and I would look to see if there was anything there. It was lovely just to look at the beautiful forest on either side.

At last I could see a village in the distance. Again I saw the endless fields of paddy. As I neared the village the shouts of 'White man, white man' were heard. Very soon I had an interested crowd behind me, shouting any smattering of English they knew to attract my attention. I saw beggars everywhere asking for money. Women would be drawing water and an occasional radio would be on full volume blaring away some Indian music. Flies were everywhere, open drains were on either side. Bullock carts were on the street with the bullocks tethered to the carts. People would stare at you open-mouthed.

At length the village came to an end. There is nothing like a walk on an Indian road!

M. Fox, Std. VII Brakes screeched, people ran here and there yelling. We had hit a cow.

Dad hurried from the car to see what had happened. People were now thronging the road and yelling at us. All of a sudden a young man came up and said to us in English, 'Sir, you better leave before they kill you'. So Dad got into the car and tried to get through the crowd. We were almost through when a stone hit the car.

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When we were away from the scene, Dad got out to see the damage that had been done. The side was dented and the back window shattered.

At a nearby shop we enquired why a cow should be so important. The man said 'We worship them in India' . From that day onwards we never forgot.

I still say that an Indian road is a very adventurous place.

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I live in Colombo the capital of Ceylon. We were at Hikkaduwa for the day, my father being on business at Galle about ten miles further down the coast from Hikkaduwa. Hikkaduwa is sixty-three miles from Colombo. We stayed at the rest house near the sea. It is a popular tourist resort. My father had offered to drop us off while h e continued to Galle, and pick us up in the evening. We accepted the offer gladly.

We had had lunch and my brother was down in the sea by the jetty. I wandered off on to some coral, under water, about two feet deep. I met a Sinhalese fisherman with a rough wooden spear sharpened at both ends in his one hand. His other arm had been amputated at the elbow. I knew a bit of Sinhalese and discovered that he was going octopus hunting, so I asked if I could go with him. H e agreed.

We swam over the coral to where there was a sharp dip and the coral ended. We'd been swimming around for about fifteen minutes when I saw what looked like a piece of thick white rope.

I swam closer to investigate. I rounded a lump of coral and came face to face with a mass of tentacles and two huge eyes. I backed off quickly, surfaced and shouted for the Sinhalese fisherman to come. He moved at a remarkable speed considering the lack of an arm. He asked me where it was and I told him to follow me.

When I pointed it out he told me¡ to stay where I was .

H e circled the creature until he was behind it. He rose until he was directly above it, and then dived suddenly down on it. In two e:ll..1:remely quick movements he poked both of its eyes and then facing it with his spear outstretched, swam straight at it. I 51

hovered around in case anything went wrong, but it didn't. The spear hit the octopu s directly between the eyes, and then the fisherman wrenched it sideways. The octopus shuddered and released. All this happened in a matter of seconds, but: it seemed to be an eternity. He looked at me, grinned and beckoned to me. He took hold of a couple of tentacles, I did the same and we proceeded to the shore.

When ashore he thanked me for finding the octopus and dragged it off up the beach.

R. w ALLIS, Std. VIII PACKING I

All was in a flutter I didn't know what to do, I packed a shirt and I packed a shoe Dum de diddle dum de do.

I packed my little red hat, I sat ¡ on it to make it flat Yes, I sat on it to make it flat Dum de diddle dum de do.

I put in my shoes, No time for a snooze What was I to do?

Dum de diddle dum de do.

I packed all day, I packed all May, That's all I can say Dum de diddle dum de do.

P. STOCKLEY, Std. VI THE JOURNEY UP TO OOTY The train was crowded. People were sleeping on the floors and in the corridor, and a man was sleeping in the luggage section in the middle of the carriage. We were lucky and did not have to sleep on the floor because we had reservations.

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While we were waiting some boys watched a goat being born and when I came I saw the little goat standing on its wobbly legs, with its mother licking it.

We set off by bus and after a while came to Coonoor, and all the Hebron people got out; but we Lushy boys kept on going until Ooty. When we came to Ooty, the bus driver, seeing that all of us were going to Lushington, went on up to the school.

On the way up the drive we met a bullock cart which had stopped because the load it was carrying was too heavy. When that was out of the way we went up and were at school.

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After a most enjoyable lunch I decided to continue a letter I was writing. Here is part of it unaltered: 'We are now somewhere near Loz falls on the Coonoor-Metty road. We plan to catch a train from Runnymede-a train has just passed so we might not. A car has just passed us and we asked how far it was to Loz falls. He said "one mile" and roared away blowing a snazzy horn which sounded like the Governor's trumpet call .

A lorry has just passed carrying a load of bananas; it makes me feel hungry. We're setting off now, so I'll finish later.'

We set off down the river bed looking for the railway. After climbing over boulders, sliding down waterfalls, falling into pools, the railway bridge appeared. We went along the track towards Metty, stepping from sleeper to sleeper. We walked down three kilometres. When we came to Hillgrove Station, _the Nilgiri 53

express was standing beside the platform. As we drew near it the whistle went and it sped up towards us and then past us. At Hillgrove station we drunk over a hundred cups of tea between the thirty of us.

Next worry was whether we should wait in the hopes of catching a goods train that was due. When the train drew nigh, this proved impossible as all the carriages were closed ones. We set off through the jungle for the road again. Again we started up the road. We were now 'two thousand nine hundred an<l: ninetynine feet above Metty', we had to reach 7,550 feet by night fall, the time being 4 p.m., the place being between hairpin bend '9' and hairpin bend '10' and the situation being pretty bad. We were twenty miles from Ooty without food, water or transport.

Mr Glasgow stopped every car, bus or lorry and, asked for lifts• By hairpin bend '5' our party had diminished to eleven. To our immense joy a lorry, half full, stopped and gave us a lift to No. 1.

We had another cup of tea each and caught two buses to Coonoor where we caught a bus to Ooty, arriving at Ooty at 7 p.m. utterly exhausted.

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CYCLING DOWN THE GHAT

At half past nine on a Saturday, four boys and my father were cycling down the ghat.

Immediately we four boys took the lead and my father was left behind. Five miles down the road we stopped to wait for him.

As soon as he was in sight, we raced off. I took the lead and as I went round the corner I saw a stationary lorry on the other side of the road. Round the corner I saw an approaching car which would be taking the corner about the same time as Calum Sutherland. I yelled at him but in vain, for as he came round the corner his pedal hit the car. Fortunately it just tipped the car but I heard the noise from about thirty yards away. Calum saw the car stop but kept on going.

On the last hairpin bend I pedalled hard to overtake my brother· I succeeded in doing this but I was .going too fast and skidded on the grit, when trying to take the corner. · I fell off my bike and grazed my leg. Later we found that I had buckled my back wheel.

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I was just thinking how dreary and lifeless the surrounding jungle was, when a big full-grown beautifully spotted panther leaped in front of the car, across the road and disappeared into the surrounding jungle. Campbell who had been hanging out of the window hastily fell inside and wound the window up.

We all had a good laugh at this, and Campbell claimed that he had not b een frightened but could not explain why he had re-entered the car.

It grew very hot so we decided to go swimming in a near-by river. It was great f\in shooting down the cataracts and landing in the deep pool at the bottom. This h:bwever ruined the seats of our swimming trunks. I had seen snakes in a nearby river, so I did not like swimming in the deep shaded pools that we could see.

Dad and Campbell then went on ahead leaving us to follow on behind. The river was about three furlongs from the forest bungalow and about halfway between the two, Ashley gasped, 'Wow, did you see that panther'. Trevor and I thought that he was fibbing because Ashley had not seen the panther that had crossed the road, but sure enough when we reached the spot we saw not one but two black panthers. They heard us and slunk quickly off into the undergrowth.

The day before we left, Dad decided to take us for a run in the car. We left the car at the bottom of a hill and then started to quietly climb it. At the top we looked around and there just across the valley moving slowily up another hill was a herd of about twenty bison. We held a counsel of war and it was decided that · we should start following the herd and try to get a closer look at them. We set off, keeping the herd in sight, but soon ran into difficulties. We had to get through a thorn bush. This feat was accomplished without much difficulty but there were dead twigs everywhere. We stepped on one and an inquisitive buffalo came to see what the noise was about. When it saw us it snorted, pawed the ground and then it charged off and bunched the herd SS

together. We dared not go any closer to the herd in case we were spotted, so we hid behind a large rock. Dad and Ashley then made for a nearby clump of trees. They reached them safely, but suddenly without any warning a bison that must have been a scout, charged at them. Ashley clutched at a tree but the bison changed its direction and lumbered off up the hill towards the herd. They then made off and that was the last we heard of them.

M. SMYTH, Std. IX

A SIKH FESTIVAL People lined the street in the hustle bustle as they heard the band far away. The band approached nearer and nearer while the crowd shouted good things about Sikh holy men.

Behind the band came the schoolboys, the little ones in trucks.

The older ones walked behind holding banners. People threw petals and sprinkled water~ver them. The crowd swayed towards the middle of the road in their excitement. Ten minutes later there was no road left and the procession was among the crowd.

The Boys' Brigade followed playing Colonel Bogey. Their uniform was a blue turban, white clothes and badges on their turbans. Behind the Boys Brigade came more schoolboys marching with banners. Each pair was five yards apart.

Sikh priests approached in a waggon. Their uniform was a blue turban, white clothes, a long sword and a dagger.

Two bands took up the rear, one a brass band and the other one playing recorders.

J. CONSTABLE, Std. VIII

MADAME TUSSAUD'S WAXWORKS Madame Tussaud's waxworks stared around 1792, the time of the French Revolution. She used to get the heads of the guillotined people and cast thei.r faces in wax.

In 1962 I went to see the waxworks. First was the 'Hall of Celebrities', where all the kings and queens and famous people's figures were cast. In there were Queen Elizabeth I, James lst, Sir Winston Churchill and many others.

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Then I went into the 'Hall of Fiction' where famous characters like Robinson Crusoe, Ali Baba, the Sultan and the Genii and other lovable characters were to be found.

Now to my favourite subject-the Chamber of Horrors, downstairs in a dimly-lit place with dungeon-like walls. I first saw the cage which consisted of fixed iron bars strapped across a man's body, hung from a castle wall and the vultures picking at his flesh. I went on to the executioner with his axe half way through a man's head. I walked on to the guillotine, with the blade down at the bottom and the man's head in the little wooden box with the body still on the platform. I came to one with a curtain all round and a sign 'No children allowed', but my Dad let me have a look, and I saw a ghastly sight of a rope with a large hook at the end of it, and the hook was through a man'!> body! Finally we came to the figure of a person's head lying on his sliced body. There were many other figures as well.

M. NICOL, Std. VIII

A PLANE FLIGHT IN NEPAL The roaring of a Dakota's engines breaks the silence at Kathmandu airport, Nepal's biggest. My sisters and I were sitting in a comfortable blue seat looking over the wing of the Dakota we were in. We taxied along the run-way and within a few seconds were in the air heading for Gorkhu airport near our home. The Pilot was a good friend of ours by the name of Captain King.

We had been going for about two minutes when suddenly the door to the cockpit opened and Captain King's cheerful face appeared.

He beckoned to us to come up into :the cockpit.

The next minute we had a lovely view out of the front window of the plane. The snow mountains glowed a lovely pink in the morning sun.

After twenty-five minutes of flying Captain King asked us if we wanted to see our house, (which was on the route to the airfield) and of course we said 'Yes'. So down we dropped from five hundred feet to twenty feet and there was our house right in front of us for a second and then it was gone. vVe had just about taken the roof off.

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Alas we couldn't land, for there was a huge white sea of fog lying over the airfield. We circled round for a while but as there was no way in to land we went off to another airfield nearby called Pokhara. At Pokhara we were taken off with all our luggage and then the plane went to an airfield with a load of people and came back after an hour and we were piled in again. The plane took off with us up in the cockpit again. There were patches of fog here and there but soon there was the long stretch of parched grass which formed the airfield. The ground rushed up towards us and then we were down with a few bumps and slowed to a standstill. Here we were at the end of a dangerous but lovely plane flight in Nepal.

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THE COCKPIT

On our way from London to Bombay the stewardess came up and said that we could go up into the cockpit. So Hoggart, who had boarded the same V.C. 10 at Beirut, my brother and I got up and were shown to the cockpit.

There were four people up there already: two pilots-one was the captain who was having his lunch, and another two officers only I don't know what they did. The captain had a moustache and looked very nice.

There was an orange radar screen. There were straight knobs, curved knobs and a hundred or more switches. Almost every thing was duplicated. There were four power gears, one for each engine. They all read 95, but were not in straight line. There were mostly dials, big and small, round and a few square.

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We asked the captain lots of questions. I asked: 'How did you learn to use and remember all the knobs?' He said, 'It is like going back to school and learning it all bit by bit'.

It was pitch dark outside and out of the dark came red lights flashing.

All too quickly we had to go back to our seats. We had been up in the cockpit for twenty minutes.

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Crowds of people were trying to get to the gun carriage to throw on a last wreath or garland. Up Curzon Road went the procession till it was out of sight.

Later when we got home we turned on the radio and listened to hear what was happening. We soon found out that when the procession had reached Connaught Place it was so crowded that the ground could not be seen. When it reached the cremation ground thousands of people were waiting there. Shastri was lifted from the gun carriage and laid on the cremation spot; Next piles of sandalwood were laid on Shastri. So were many other sorts of wood. Pure ghee was then poured on and more petals and garlands were thro:wn on. The eldest son, Huri, then performed the last rites. The buglers' last post and the gun-fire salute could be heard mixed with the chanting of the people.

Then the fire was lit by priests and slowly it rose higher and higher.

Soon the people started to go. Next day the ashes were gathered

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The roaring of the sea and the waves crashing against the lonely night-beach made me shiver as I lay cuddled up in our big tent. I could distinctly hear the howling of the wind and the rustling of the casurina trees and I thought of all those daring fishermen who had gone out to sea, risking their lives to catch fish for their own living and for other people.

Dad and the older boys had gone out for a walk in that lonely night along the beach . I thought of them feeling so cold as they battled the wind for their walk. I looked outside and saw the coals of our fire glowing under those tall and sturdy pine trees.

Mum came from some washing of our greasy pans and dishes, tired and reluctant and she told us a story. I lay back in my bed and rested my head. Dad and the older boys came back which was a great comfort. Mum went out and I fell fast asleep.

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RESERVE

The jungle was beautiful. The buds of the trees had burst, and there were lots of wild orchids in flower. The dust was swirling up in clouds behind the jeep. The tracker told the driver to stop the jeep, and pointed. It was a sloth bear busily attacking a bee's nest. The bees swarmed round the bear, but his thick fur protected him from stings. When he could get all the honey he could find he lazily ambled away, very pleased with himself. The driver started the jeep and we drove on. When we were crossing a river the tracker pointed to some sort of logs on the bank. They were crocodiles basking in the sun. As we came round the corner we saw lots of deer. We stopped the jeep and watched them.

To our astonishment they started to run. We soon saw why !

Out of a tree sprang a leopard and it landed on a young doe. It was killed instantly. The leopard turned round and glared at us, and then dragged the carcase into the bush.

On the way home we stopped to watch a herd of elephants having their mid-day meal. They tore up young trees and ate the green leaves. We stayed watching them for quite a while until we had to go back to the house.

The next morning we packed up and went home to Colombo.

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First into the lead is Phil Read on a sparkling Yamaha; behind him Jim Redmond and Ralph Bryans on Hondas are battling wheel to wheel. Do"m the front straight they scream and into the Quarry Bends. Behind Bryans, Alan Shepherd on an MZ and Hugh Anderson on a Suzuki are engaged in a fight with Gustav Frankie on a Jawa. Read has now reached Belfast hairpin three seconds ahead of Redmond who is having a hard job with Bryans. Up Rushy hill they scream and down the 'flying kilometre', Read still increasing his lead. In the distance we hear the scream of the Yamaha and the drone of the Honda as they round the famous Ireland corner. Yes here they come! Read has increased his lead to four seconds as he screams into the second lap. Here comes Redmond, his Honda roaring defiance.

Bryans should be coming now but there is still no drone. But listen-a sad voice come~ over the loud-speaker that Bryans lost ground to Redmond and being hard pressed by Shepherd and Anderson crashed, bringing them down. So Gustav Frankie on his Jawa has moved up to third with Tarquino Provini and his Benelli fourth. Back markers are now starting to trouble Read and Redmond. As they flash past for the final lap there is no change. Read has reached Rushy Hill with R~dmond now only two seconds behind. Down the 'flying kilo' for the last time, their machines reaching 150 m.p.h. and into Ireland corner. Yes it's Read with Redmond gaining furiously as they flash past the finish.

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RAPHINI-A VILLAGE IN GREECE During our stay in Greece we frequently visited the village of Raphini. Our visits were usually short, something like two or three days. Raphini is a small fishing village on the western coast of Greece. Behind it there are beautiful green fields and flourishing grape farms. Raphini is built on the sandy beach. The pier to which all the fishing boats were anchored ends in the image 61 5

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After eating they sing folk songs and tell stories. One story was a true story of this village. It goes like this.

'Britain was at war with Germany. The German troops had attacked the village of Raphini. The men fought bravely to save the village. The villagers had made blockades and were defending them. The pier was a bustle of activity, the old men, women and children were being loaded into fishing boats. Within an hour the whole village had been evacuated, excepting a few young men who remained to hold off the Germans. At dawn the village fell to the Germans. Then at midday the remaining villagers were executed by Ge1 man firing squads.'

The older folk told many other stories and then at the end they would sing the Greek national anthem, and everyone would go and catch what sleep they could.

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The forest, a desert island and the sea all speak of excitement and adventure.

THE FOREST When all is still and quiet When nothing can be heard, No sound of deer or squirrel.

No tweeting of a bird.

That's when I like the forest, When none disturbs the air; For when at night 'tis full moon (Tomorrow night is full moon) You walk without a care.

It seems so very lonely, Yet you do not realize, That everywhere around you, Of every shape and size, Aie every sort of creature, One possibly could find.

They sleep without fear of you, None of them have fear of you And peaceful is their mind.

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The beaver snugly sleeping, The birds in their warm nests: The jackals and the foxes The foxes they are pests I If you are on a farmhouse, And have a chicken pen They come and eat the chickens (All foxes do love chickens) Then back to their snug den.

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But now 'tis no more quiet They all are up again, To do whatever's needed In sunshine or in rain.

For now 'tis early morning It's now another day, Again it's time for working, (It's always time for working) So there's no time for play.

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CASTAWAY

It was a dark and stormy night one night And the sailors of my ship took fright, And swam with all their bodies' strength To try the great Pacific's length.

But one sailor and only one survived, And that was me.

I landed on a desert shore Where no foul terror lay in store, And built a tree-hut strong and firm For my cat and myself as you will learn.

There was one man and only one out there, And that was me.

I killed a lion and a bear, Found a dead tiger in its lair, I used the bearskin as a rug, The lion and tiger skins kept me snug.

There was one hut and only one out there, And it was mine.

I waited there for many a day, With only my cat with whom I could play, Until at last I spied a ship, And then I shouted hip hip hip, I scrambled aboard that kindly boat, And I was safe.

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Rough is Rumbling Battering Rumbling

the sea, and tumbling me and Tumbling.

A ship is sailing in it Rumbling and tumbling, It will probably come to some mishap, Rumbling and tumbling.

The winds are blowing, the waves are high Rumbling and tumbling, It will never end its long, long sigh, Rumbling and tumbling.

The gulls are diving, mixing and swooping, Rumbling and tumbling Circling and looping Rumbling and tumbling

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I'D LIKE TO BE ...

Well, what <would' you like to be ?

If I wasn't Peter Kiff I'd like to be a dog. I'd bark when robbers came, and sometimes I'd chase rats and then children would give me bones. I would play with the boys and the girls.

They would throw a ball and I would bring it back to them.

Sometimes I would have puppies.

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supper. I'd have some meat and beans and I'd have a wessack lantern hanging from my roof. The I'd go to sleep and have a jolly dream. The next morning I'd get my bow and arrow and catch a wild rabbit.

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And hear are some contributions from Standard I. When I grow up I'm going to be a bird and fly to Africa.

I'll make my nest in a tree there and wait until my eggs h atch.

When I grow up I'm going back to England . I'll be a doctor and work in a hospital. I'll give other people operations.

When I grow up I shall be a bus driver. and from there to Ooty bus stand.

I'll go up to Kotagiri

HE COULDN'T SEE A TIIlNG

The suspense is killing me.

All was dark and quiet, when suddenly there came a 'swish' .

Instinctively John ducked; he felt the wind ruffle his hair-something had just missed him. He quickened his pace. 'Swish' , again something just missed him, this time just below the knee.

He stepped back onto someone or something. It felt like a foot .

Immediately he took a step forward and sprawled on the ground.

He jumped up and walked on warily. He could hear footsteps behind him. Quickly he jumped to one side right into something hard. H e couldn't see a thing.

He ran on, then stopped to listen. He could hear someone in front of him, to the left of him and behind him. He sidestepped.

'Swish', again something just missed him. Which way to turn?

'Whack I' the second blow caught him.

As he fell the blindfold came off his eyes. It was over.

Eager hands took the blindfold off John as he made his way to the circle to watch someone else being blindfolded.

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2. This wife may well say¡ that her husband needs a haircut.

3. Lushy word for cheeky boy.

5. A blanketed plank. , 7. A four legged thief with a grey coat.

9. If you are a cockney it belongs to 'im.

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By the time you read this it will almost be Christmas 'Santa Claus is coming, coming on his sleigh, To end the long long year upon a Christmas day, The snow is falling¡ lightly upon the frozen ground, It's Christmas all around, it's Christmas all around.

T he church bells are ringing, the choir is sweetly singing Good tidings to our King, the King of every nation, The King of good salvation Ringing in every nation, ringing in every nation.

On this night was Jesus born, born to all the world, The one to live eternally, and live for evermore.

Hark the j oyful sound, It's Christmas all around, it's Christmas all around.

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This is the only essay I have included. I t merits its place because of the ingenuity of the first section on the invention of musical instruments, and also because of the valuable plea made for a tolerant spirit in musical appreciation.

Music .is a wide and varied subject and ever since the first man there has been some type of music. Music may have been born when the first man, out hunting, caught the rhythm of a woodpecker drumming on a tree. This went over and over in his head and even to his uncivilised brain it was relaxing. The next step was taken when he beat it out on a log with a stick. A few generations later one of his off-spring discovered that the stretched deer hide made a nice tone and so the first drum appears.

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Now that we have discussed musical instruments and their possible origins let us go on to music itself which these instruments help to make. Throughout the world there are hundreds of kinds of music. Some are soothing, restful and dreamy while others blare, crash, stir up and liven all our emotions. Yet others, which we are not used to, clash in our ears driving us nearly crazy.

Let us tl1ink of these in a more precise way now. Take for instance our great composers Bach, Beethoven and others. Their m usic is usually played by a huge ensemble of instruments and their pieces are long compositions into which a great deal of labour and time has gone. They usually have different movements which are so completely different that heard separately you would not imagine them to be all in the one piece of music. One moment you are almost imagining butterfiys, flowers and a warm sun and you are very sleepy. Then you hear the clash of cymbals ; you jump and a martial piece makes you feel like enlisting.

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We now think of music from different lands such as China and fodia, which when you hear it makes you feel like throwing a tantrum, your shoe or something. Yet to people in many places it is music-something they can listen to and enjoy. Then we come to jazz and pop music, a fast and exciting.beat. And while young people enjoy this, the older ones sit back and say 'What is the younger generation coming to?' But it is music just as much as any of the others.

Now as I have brought out before, although you may not think of some of these as music, you can, if you try and honestly want to be broad-minded, learn to like any of it. But you must listen with an open-mind and tell yourself you enjoy it. I may not be fifty years old, but I know it works because I've tried it.

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The Yellow Elephant Once on the coast of Africa there was a man whose name was Stephen. He lived in a little hut at the edge of the river. One day he was hunting when he saw a yellow elephant. He shot it.

Then when he skinned it, the inside was yellow as well. He wrote to other lands to tell of the wonderful elephant.

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BRIAN PULLEN,

The Two Gray Squirrels One day in the forest of India there were two gray squirrels.

Their house was a hole in the tree. They had green grass for their meat. One night one of the squirrels heard a noise. He looked out of the hole. He saw two shiny eyes. It was a weasel.

He shaked his brother soon he woke up and both ran away.

DAVID KING,

Std. III

The Bee and the Butterfly 'Dear me, dear me', said the busy bee, I'm always making honey, No time to play, but work all day It isn't very funny.

'Oh my, oh my', said the butterfly, I'm always eating honey, And yet I play the live long day, It's very very funny.

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David continued: 'You see it's a jungle animal. A striped canon. It has five legs and eats cabbages.'

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IF I WERE A MILLIONAIRE

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If I were a millionaire, I would buy a large house, a fast sports' car and a private aeroplane. I would put some of my money into the bank and the rest into business.

From time to time I would take some money from the bank and buy such things as radios, gramophones or a new set of furniture or a new car. At Christmas time I would give away gifts and money to hospitals and orphan homes and have a big party for the children.

I would set up a business making small aircraft and hope to make a big profit. I would not do any work, but someone would run the factory for me and I would inspect it or look over it sometimes. I would meet my business acquaintances in an office in my house.

I would have ordinary food at home but sometimes I would go to an expensive restaurant to have lunch or dinner with a business acquaintance.

If my business succeeded I would have started out as a millionaire and finished as a multi-millionaire.

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I AM A RED CORPUSCLE This is what is usually called an in.side story.

I am a red corpuscle. Now when you are a red corpuscle of a man of sixty, life is quite pleasant, though there is always the possibility of a few misfortunes.

I remember all of my journeys, and they are all to the same places, so it is quite boring, but when you come from a tough marrow bone family, you grin and bear it.

Let me tell you about some of my travels. One day I left the heart feeling quite clean and tidy, when the old chap wanted to go for a walk. Now, mind you, it is all right if you are a young dashing boy, but for an old man it is quite a strain. Anyway, ~ started going round a bit too fast for my own liking, and boy, you should have heard the heart go. Instead of the usual beat of <lorn diddy, <lorn diddy, it went diddy, diddy, diddy, ruddy.

He took in more oxygen mind you, but I didn't get any because it all went to the lungs and the other corpuscles, and instead of a healthy red, I turned a darkish bluey colour, and I felt really nasty. But just in time I passed through the lungs and absorbed oxygen and was cleaned.

Another thing I remember is that once the old chap was going into the house and he cut himself on a rusty nail. And of course he was in danger of getting tetanus. So he got an injection and into his body came the germ-fighting little soldiers. It happens that I got held up by this fight and, oh boy! what a fight it was.

The old boy must have felt pretty painful but the goorues slaughtered the baddies and all was at rest.

Now, though, I think that things have taken a turn for the worse. The white corpuscles have started eating us reddies and I think the old guy might have leukemia. As I wait to be eaten the poor chap is sighing his last breath. Goodbye I M. NICOL, Std. VIII

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We went camping. We made huts and we climbed trees~ And it was a night camp. I was feeling scared. In the morning we went back home and had our lunch.

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Once at home when we were out in the garden we heard something up in the trees . When we looked we saw two monkeys taking the crows' eggs.

KASPAR PROBST

One day I and my sister went of a walk to get orchids flower we got lots of orchid flowers. There were lots of tree. It is like a wood but it wasn't a wood. There was a path through the trees. But it was a big path. It was nice fun collecting orchid flower. It was fun looking of orchid flower too.

PHILIP RYALL

When I went for a walk to Dodabetta I saw a big tree fall down.

I walked to the top and saw lots of hills. We had our lunch up there. Miss Sergent and Miss Culmer went with us.

MURRAY COCHRANE

At home I had a baby calf. And I only had it for a few days.

Then one day it died. We got the skin then we buried the rest of it.

CHRISTOPHER STREATFIELD

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yellow. I tried to think what to do with it. I tried to insert it into my gas cooker. There was a violent explosion. Boomph -wouldn't work!

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Boomph (impure)+ Nfis + H 2 S0+4 KOH - 0 + HN03 ~ .Boomph (pure).

I rushed to test it but found that I had no gas cooker left with which to test it, so I put it in the heater. I listened for an explosion which did not come. Pure Boomph had been created !

DAVID BANKS, Std. IX MOPOKE A short story with an Australian background.

The parched earth opened cracked lips to the brazen sky.

A willie-nillie wandered in a whirl across the red plain. Beside the dry waterhole a grizzled man sat dejectedly with a mongrel dog, occasionally addressing a word to it. The dog responded by opening his brown eyes and immediately closing them again.

Both looked utterly exhausted. The dog lay stretched out on his side, breathing heavily. The man, his head on a swag, said to -the dog 'We shoul'na left ! Not T'were the wrong thing to do'.

He took long pauses between each phrase and now seemed too tired to say any more. A long hand reached for a bag by his side.

He withdrew rolls of money and some coins. They fell through his thin fingers. 'No 'twasn't worth it!'

Th~ sun had now fallen like a fiery ball to the burning horizon.

The landscape changed to a delicate mauve, then the dark purple of night fell like a curtain. Somewhere behind him a mopoke cried. Its dreary voice was like a bad omen on the still air. ''Twasn't worth it,' he kept repeating to the canine form. 'He wasn't too bad a master' . As the dog did not respond he painfully propped himself on his elbow and reached out towards the dog.

He recoiled. The form was cold and already stiffening in the night air. The mopoke cried again in deep mournful tones.

Yellow beams of light spread from the homestead windows.

On the wide verandah three or four people sat in armchairs, disconsolately slapping at mosquitoes.

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'It's three weeks since he left now', declared a deep voice from the depths of an armchair. 'That sergeant has probably got himself lost now, looking for that low-bred thief and his dog. A good dog it was too.'

Everyone suddenly leaned forward listening. 'A horse', said someone. It could soon be seen in the moonlight. The rider was half out of the saddle before they were in the gate, and on his feet long before the horse had stopped. The veins stood out on his red face and he was puffing and blowing with exertion.

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He took a saddlebag from the horse and opened it. Letting the coins slip through his fingers he murmured "Twasn't worth it for him to take it . .. or for me to get it back.' The stili air echoed the lonesome dreary notes of a mopoke.

JENNI GLASGOW, Std. XI TRAIN CRASH A second short story. A stormy night and a faulty bridge are the ingredients for disaster.

It was a pitch-black night and the wind was howling through the spray-drenched lattices and criss-cross of....girders of the Tay Bfidge. The rain and sleet were blown through almost horizontally.

Sleepy passengers in the night train from England to Edinburgh were being jostled into the little station before crossing the giant bridge. Steam hissed from the engine. The train pulled out as the signal changed colours, leaving the station in a freezing silence. .

'Good thing I've got leave tomorrow', thought Dick Harrison.

'It always gives me a queer feeling as I go over this bridge, especialy on nights like these. 'Least it's warm in the engine.' He threw another shovel of coal into the roaring furnace.

Soon they were puffing up the slow slope to the bridge. There was a thundering clatter as the tran started on the four minute stretch of bridge. The wind hit Dick in the face like a jagged piece of glass. The girders raced past and the big headlight of the train only lit up a small cone in front of the engine. The rest of the scene was wind-swept darkness.

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'Gosh, we're swaying a bit much to-night, aren't we?' commented John Stirling, Dick's mate. 'I just don't feel right.

Maybe it's the storm.' He did not know how true the statement had been.

For months on end a main diagonal girder of about three tons, two-thirds the way along the bridge, had been working its way loose. The strain had ground through the bolts on one side and every time a train passed, the girders sagged a few inches more.

Finally, in this night, the whole section had given, owing to the extra stress of the storm. So there was a large section missing, and the wind was pounding the bridge with unimaginable fury.

'I'm looking forward to something to eat', said Dick to John.

They were both feeling unsafe.

No sooner had he said this than he felt everything slipping.

His stomach jumped. In the agony of those few moments, Dick heard a scream, whether from himself or John he did not know.

His head crashed against the roof and he went out cold. The engine and the whole row of carriages plunged into the ragged swirling waters of the Tay. Muffled cries came from the carriages as each one hurtled over. The gas lights still glowed in some of the carriages and then were put out for ever by the cruel water.

Nothing was to be seen of the train next morning. A large gap in the bridge told the whole story.

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BRADGATE PARK This description successfully evokes an atmosphere of rural calm.

There were little spinneys on the hill tops, where the foxes would hunt and play and the birds would sing in the trees. The hills had a covering of bracken about the height of a man, where children would play. The deer would graze in the grass or stroll over the rolling hills. Some of the deer were timid but some were brave enough to venture close to you.

The historical part of the park is Lady Jane Grey's house, now in ruins. It has a large wall around it with a huge tower at each corner. But we did not have time to see inside it.

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A bubbling stream gurgled past us, in a great hurry to reach the lake at the end of the park. The lake was peaceful and clear as the ducks swam majestically across the lake and occasionally dived to look for food at the bottom. The Moorhens led their young over the large leaves of the Water Lilies to their home in the reeds, with nothing to disturb them. We had a fine day at Bradgate park.

CHRISTOPHER CHITTENDEN, Std. IX Answers to Crossword Puzzle vn p. 69 Across. 1. Biology 4. Carols 6. Under 8. Said 10. Exists

bown. 1. Because 2. Lioness 3. Gas 5. Bed 7. Rat 9. Is Riddles contributed by Standards I.

Q. What makes more noise than a cow stuck in the mud?

A. Two cows stuck in the mud.

Q. What is big and white and eats sugi porridge?

A. A big white sugi eater.

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I am afraid that this department is very deficient. As Ec!itor, looking ahead to future editions I would be delighted to receive news of the activities of Old Boys in time for next year's magazine.

But I am sure that it is also true to say that there are people here at Lushington who would genuinely like to hear how past members of the school are getting on. Therefore please remember to write to us. ' Bernard Griffiths is now studying at Eltham College for his 'A' Levels and if he passes he hopes to go on to further studies.

Keith Hoggart is now studying at Yarm Grammar School, North Yorkshire. He is taking Maths and Geography at 'A' level and has applied to the B.0.A.C. Air Training School, London.

Joel Turner who, if he had stayed on, would have been in Standard IX is now in Kodaikanal at the American School there called High Clere.

Ian Fraser is now at John Watson's in Edinburgh. H e would have been in Standard X if he had stayed on. His father is Secretary of the Church of Scotland Mission.

Dale Carrol is now going to a college in Kentucky in America.

Frank Dewey is now going to a College in Kansas in America and is in his second year.

Mark Abbot is now married and has finished or almost finished College.

There is also a little news of those who were boarders at Lushington some time ago. The contributor suggests that for old time's sake and also because they will perhaps be remembered by some of the senior members of staff, they should be included.

D avid Anderson who left Lushington in 1950, is on his first furlough, having spent one term abroad as a missionary ¡with T.E.A.M. H e and his wife Joan, and four boys, have been in Venezuela for the last four and a h alf years.

Victor Anderson has just been called up for military service for two years. He has completed his M.D. and is specialising in surgery with a special emph asis on leprosy work. He and his wife Dorothy hope to become missionaries, quite possibly in India. ¡ Andrew Chittenden, Paul Jenkins and Roger Todman are all studying in Eltham College, London S.E. 9.

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INDIAN SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION

The following boys entered for the I.S.C. Examination 1965.

Philip Pelham received a 2nd Division I.S.C. Keith Hoggart received a 3rd Division i:.S.C. Bernard Griffiths received a 3rd Division I.S.C.

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The following gained G.C.E. subject passes.

Carlton Copley, English Language.

Leslie Freestone, English Language, Mathematics.

Robert Glasgow. English Language, Art 'Practical'.

Peter Paterson. Bible Knowledge.

Francis Pospisil. English Language.

ASSOCIATED EXAMINATION BOARD

General Certificate of Education-May-June 1966 The following boys gained passes in G.C.E. Carlton Copley. English Language, English Literature.

Bernard Griffiths. English Language, English Literature, Religious Knowledge, Mathematics, Art. Keith Hoggart. Geography, History, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics.

Philip Pelham. English Language, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics.

Ashley Smyth. Religious Knowledge.

Frank Trchala. English Language, French, Mathematics.

A LETTER FROM AN OLD BOY

I thought that this letter was worth including complete.

Box 2603, Bethany, Oklohoma.

August 2Sth, 1966.

DEAR STAFF MEMBERS AND BOYS,

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I don't know if you can imagine the surprise that I felt when I came back from !UY hols and found a copy of the 'Black and Gold' waiting for me. Believe me, out of all my mail, that was about the first thing I opened, and I really read it with delight. To 87

you guys there may not be very much that would stimulate a fellow, and I even thought that myself when I was at Lushy, but now that I am so far away, anything that brings me in contact with the school stirs up many old memories, both pleasant and otherwise.

I feel that every person who has played a part, big or small, in compiling this annual has done a magnificent job, and I am really proud that the school has a magazine it can call its own.

'Bravo', well done, and a round of applause for the excellent work you have done.

Maybe there should be another round of applause for the tremendous spirit and teamwork in the Inter School Sports.

I was really proud when I read about the way you brought in the points. I wish I could say 'well done' to everyone who was in the sports.

I often 'thought that my schooling in Lushy was not adequate enough for an Amerian college, but now that I have finished one year of work I feel that my preparation there was good. The last half of the year I had a B+average, which, after working it out with one of the professors here, comes to about 85-90 per cent in your grades. And to me that is real good. I wish that in some way I could encourage you on to do better and really try to 'press for the mark for the prize of the High calling of God in Jesus Christ' (Phil. 3:14.)

God has truly been good to me over here and has really helped me to make an adjustment to the American way of life.

I sure wish I could meet some of you guys sometime, somewhere.

So long for now, from one of the old Lushy guys, FRANK DEWEY, OR SKIP.

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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will take and find fault.

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Science Hard water is water that has been drained through sandstone and has picked up carbohydrates as it goes this water will attack soap if you try to lather it. To get rid of hard soap use baking soda.

When someone says 'This water is very hard' he does not mean that it is not easily dented.

One cure for hard water is to get a new water supply.

The industrial uses of oxygen (i) Mountain climbing.

Uses of hydrogen. (i) For weather bloons etc. etc. etc. etc.

When potassium nitrate is dissolved in water the solution becomes heated to a certain temperature. From this we can define the temperature range.

Science or History Chemistry:

Hitler wanted a pure Argon race.

History Guy Fawkes was an R.C. Calvinist. He was hanged for heresy.

The Great Plague: The flea bit human people.

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A. St Frances looked after sick pachents then after she was called Florence Nightingale and she was awarded lots of meddles.

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When Marco Polo returned to Venus everyone thought he was dead. But he lived till he died.

The monasteries provided hospittles and gave us a lot of history.

When the Crusaders were near Jerusalem the turkeys killed them.

Magna Carta was singed in a meadow.

Horatius helled the small bridge.

The Great Plague was caused by a rat that carried a certain germ. :

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The American colonists did not like a little country like England in chaq e of them. (Written by a boy from Ireland.)

Calvin preached the same thing as Luther only more still.

The first English explorer was John Cabot-and he was an Italian .

English The masculine of heiress is barber.

He was riding a horse to his friend's house called George.

Unpunctual means without full stops.

Latin

One of the lady Latin teachers reports what she considers a very Vulgar Latin sentence composed ¡ by a member 0f her Latin class.

'Magistra Latina antiqua est.'

Scripture

Joseph's moth.er )Vas called Rebecker.

Similarities between Joseph and the Lord Jesus Christ ...

Joseph's father and Jesus' father both began with the letter J. The exiled patriarch was James II.

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It's Ruthie's.

Who's Ruthie?

Oh, she's the big girl who looks after us.

Where do your parents work?

They don't work-they're missionaries.

Teacher (holding up a shirt against a boy to measure it for size): You can tell roughly whether it fits or not.

Boy: But I don't know who 'Roughly' is.

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