SCHOOL NOTES.

Soon after the beginning of tem tio whole school was fitted with gas masks.

The School now possesses an 8 m.m. Kodascope projector.

The gangster-stick-em-up craze soon yielded to ''Conker s1', which Toe cane deser­vedly popular.

We were very glad to welcome Miss Ward, who made a short stay at Red House during the first half of the term.

A new attraction, likely to be deservedly popular, is being provided for Mount House, in the form of a boating pool, which is In process of construction near the swimming bath.

In spite of the gloomy disposition of the weather, which condescended not to rain but persisted in fog, fireworks ard bonfire again celebrated Nov. 5th with the usual gusto. Ghost games, bomb dis­coveries, and the flour eating competition wound up the ceremonie s .

We are always terribly sorry to part with our pets, who, though they have not exactly the power of speech, give us much joy and pleasure with trust, faith, and sympathy. Good bye, Faust, and happy hunting in the Doggie's Paradise I

Best thanks to Turner for the hand­some seat of teak which occupies a prominent position in the field.

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The weather proved a real bogy tills term. We think it is safe to say that never, in the annals of Mount House, has it been necessary to cancel so many matches in consequence of the wretched rain. All honour is due to the boys who, when deprived of their favourite pur six its, showed a light hearted spirit, and proved the truth of that very true saying, that English men (and boys) never know when they are beaten.

Hearty congratulations to Miss Trotman and Miss Ross on their success in the A.R.P. exam.

On Monday, Nov. 28th, Mr.& Mrs. Peat gave an oxcellent puppet show, which was thoroughly appreciated by us all.

The following boys joined the School this termBartholomew, Brian, Innes, Maddock, Mumford, Somerset, Stanley, Surman, Symons.

There were no candidates for Common Entrance in November.

Congratulations to Thornton and Windeatt on passing their music exams.

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REID HOUSE NOTES.The Cleric of the Weather has been

most unkind to us this term. During the first half we had some good ganes on the field and, during the latter half, games on the playground. We have been running a Senior and a Junior game, joining to­wards the end of term for matches. We have had some exciting set matches; the Otters won, the Hawks were second, foll­owed by the Owls and the Kangaroos.

The new-comers have all begun well. Of the Juniors, Stanley, in particular, deserves mention. Symons and Sims also have plenty of push and have improved greatly. In the Senior game all the new arrivals shew promise, especially Innes and Brian. Of the old stsgers our main­stay is Paton, who seems to be able to get the ball through anything’. Thomas, O'Riordan, Thornton ii, Crawford i,Weston ii., Vallance ii, Bistu an and Eyles have done useful work. Tucker has been doing some good work lately too. The forward lines have been our strong point tb5s term; the backs and halves seem to forget that they have people to mark and are often to be found at the other end of the field’.

Several afternoons have been spent in the gym playing "French and English" (or whatever it is called nowadays) and various team games, and we now have four evenly matched teams.

A contingent from Red House have joined the boxers this term.

On Thursday afternoons the Pack has been meeting as usual. Six Recruits have been enrolled during the term; of these, Vallance ii is well on the way to getting one eye open already.

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Orawford I won his First Star at theo eg inning of Lee ember and Lishman has almost passed all his tests. Thomas is working for his 2nd Star and has passed several tests this term.

We have been doing the Jungle Dances; the dance of Kaa seems to be the favourite. There have been two Treasure Hunts in the grounds; every­one seemed disappointed, however, that the treasure was not edible I

The sand-pit has been enlarged and we are hoping for mild dry days next terra so that wo can play and work there. At the beginning of the term we made roads and arranged model road- signs along them, but we have not been able to do much in the pit lately.

FOOTBALL NOTES.The wore* "football" is rather a

mockery this term as match after match has been scratched and we have been reduced to playing set matches on the playground.

The eleven should have been a good one as we had eight old colours left but they have not had much chance of forming into a team.

The most encouraging feature has been the great improvement shown by the juniors and I think we could raise an under 11 team which would take some beating.

The coaching visits of Iur .Williams have been much appreciated and we hope that some of his tips will be borne in mind.

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Oct. 29th. v. 4th PIZr.iOUTH TROOP. Lost l-£Perhaps the heavy going, the size of

some of the opposition and the absence of D'Arcy disorganised the eleven, but the fact remains that v;e can consider ourselves lucky to lose by only the odd goal. The team went hard enough but there were some glaring errors in tactics and as we learn by mistakes it might be useful to remem­ber them.

Firstly the Inside right was never up with his forward line and every pass to the right wing was Intercepted with the result that the most useful forward in the side toached tho ball about tv/ice.

The centre half was keeping close tip to his forwards oc was probably justi­fied in doing so when playing downhill in the first half . The backs and wing halves however refused to close up the gap behind him and the opposing forwards generally had a clear passage over half the middle of the field.

The wing halves also showed a tendency to mark their men on the wrong sides.

Lastly you goalkeepers must remember that a dive is a last resort only - even if it is rathor fun sliding about in the mud - as it puts you out of action for a few seconds. On this occasion the goalkeeper once had to wait lying in the mire until the ball came to him - though to be quite fair he did also bring off one really brilliant save by the same method.

I'Tov. 1st. Boarders v. Park House. Won S-CA drive in real sunshine, a picnic

lunch at Dartington, the match, sausages and mash, all played their part in a delight ful day.

As regards the actual football - ’ Arcy, Ratcliffe and Lawton formed a

very strong defence and made the game rather onesided. May and Evans put in a lot of hard work and Greenstreet was in his boat form on the right wing. We hope that this will be a permanent fix­ture and that our opponents will be able to visit Mount House In the summer.

1st XI. ( ^denotes colours)* Lawton (Goal). A useful goalkeeper

whose speed and courage make up for lack of science. Rather too kocn on patting the ball Instead of catching xt. Knows when to come out to a forward rush. Is

* also a useful centre half.D*Arcy (Left Back). Had the misfor­

tune to stretch a ligament at the beginning of the term and was out of action for the first match. Generally starts rather peacefully but is a most useful bade when he. warms up.

Ratcliffe (Right Back). A good kick and courageous tackier. Will be useful when he has gained speed and sense of position.

*Chilcott (Left Half). Possesses good ball control and soccer sense but Is Inclined to be too kind to him­self and his opponents.

* Blight (Centre Half). Goes hard andputs his weight behind it. Pre­fers booting the ball down the field to feeding his forwards.

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Roome (Right Half). Tackles well and will be useful when he gets more sense of position.

Evans (Right Half). Has shared the place with Roome . Goes hard - must try to keep his passes down and in front of his forwards.

*Windeatt (Outside Left). Dribblesand centres well. Might be more aggressive.

*Hay (Inside Left) . Ca-pt. Fast, tire­less and f earless. Ha s Improve d considerably since last year, especially in shooting.

*Shearme (Centre forward). Equally good as forward or goalkeeper but inclined to spoil his efforts in either posi­tion by playing to the gallery.

Glynne-Percy (Inside Right). Goes hard and shoots well but Is too wild at present and forgets that there are fotir more forwards on the same side.

*Chatf ield (Outside Right). The stylist of the side. Has acquired a tricky dribble and centres and shoots accurately.

BOX IIIG.There were an exceptional number of

boxers this term, many of whom really improved 100;'-i and It was good to see so many from Red House.

Boxing being a matter of years of practice and experience, It Is important that It should begin early and Mount House will have to take care when such 'pugs’ as Fleming, Brian, Innes and Co. move up.

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In the Mount House boxing, some exceptional talent was shown both among the Seniors and Juniors. Amongst the latter Kill has excellent style, and is in no way deterred, or flustered, when attacked and he can 'parkT a very nice punch. Bone also deserves credit, and should do well.

In the seniors the boy who has made the most marked improvement Is Hosking. At the beginning of terra he was rather slow and unable to 'time' his punches; his weight and strength being wasted. However, he has improved both cons id. er ably and I hope he will take it up seriously at his Public School, as he should go a long way in the boxing v/orld.

Another boxer who should do well is May. He is quick, has a good guard, uses his brain and ’times' his punches perfectly. He will find his reach, as compared with his weight, extremely useful.

For his age, Glynne Percy is good, but I should like to see more straight lefts .

Windeatt and Evans have shown a marked improvement.

On Dec. 6th five of the best boxers in the school piled into Mr. Sharp’s car and went to the R. Marine Barracks, where they witnessed some very good amateur fighting (Marine championships) . The writer was de­lighted to note from conversation afterwards that the boys had spotted faults and recognised and admired the good style boxers. Apparently the boys were delighted, as there were two knock-outs I

Colours this term have been awarded to May and Hosking.(8)

SCOUTINGo

This term we abandoned Troop meet­ings owing to lack of time and the dark evenings, and confined ourselves to passing Tests, Much useful work has been put in at the First Aid test, and we hope that there will be a large crop of second Class Scouts early In the summer.

Voelcker, Waller, Greenstreet, Haddock, Payne, Jenkin have been learning their Tenderfoot tests very thoroughly. The result of this is that Scouting proper will be able to go ahead without any im­pediments In the Summer Term.

The outstanding event of the term was a welcome visit from the District Commissioner, Mr. Winnicott, who gave us some useful tips on splices and. knots, and held us all enthralled with his account of his adventures in a German Spy Prison. His racy stylo of story-tolling lent a groat deal of added spice to his exciting yarns, and his description of his flight to Prague was most interest­ing. Y/e were very pleased to have his first-hand news of that troubled spot and would like to express our thanks for the trouble he took in coming to tell us about it all.

SHOOTING.This term we had no less than

twenty one 'marksmen'; which I believe to be a record number.

There was a most interesting match against "the staff”. May and. Evans picked up two teams of ten boys to com­pete against the ten staff marksmen(?)

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at 200 yd., 500 yd., and 600 yd. not forgetting the 'snap1. As the shoot­ing by each team was done in pairs at the same time on the came target bulls were very much 'mine' and outers were very much 'yours' 11

Several boys who in the past have been known to give the target ‘'chicken poxfl by hitting it everywhere except in the bull, amazed their instructor and,I think, themselves, by getting frequent magpies, inners and bulls.

There are several promising shots in the school, and I sincerely hope that they will take it up seriously at their respective Public Schools.

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MODEL EXHIBITION.THURSDAY. 15th DECEMBER.

Although it was pouring with rain, a large number of parents visited the annual model exhibition, and we are glad to believe that they found It worth while. The show was, in fact, extra­ordinarily good. There vws a very con­siderable number of exhibits, the table of each group being so well covered that it would have been difficult to find roam for anything more. But it was not the number, so much as the quality, of the models and useful articles displayed that deserve special, praise. They were varied and excellent. Most of the work was dene out of school, and much skill and Ingenuity had been put into it.There were a large number of ships of all sizes and types, theatres, garages, Christmas cards, and many articles of general use, including some good brushes and combs by Red House.

Special mention must be made of the following exhibits:

Railway Station (Lawton)Baskets (;7inaeatt and D’Arcy) Cigarette Boxes (Blight and May)Model ships and wreck (Tyler i) O-arages (hill end Taylor)Pontoon (Morris)Dockyard (Faller)Ferry (McEwen}Theatres (Chatfleld; Hosking;Shearme] .Tray (Weston)Meccano Models (Maddock; Tidboald;Henwood) .Garden (Campbell)

And the collection of ships of all per­iods illustrating the History of Naviga­tion by Form V .

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SATURDAY EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS .The purchase of a new Kodascope

cinematograph projector resulted in an increased number of cinema shows during this term - five in all. This was chiefly owing to the fact that the new machine has its own electric motor, which is a great Improvement on the old hand-worked projector, and does away with relays of operators. Moreover, a wider range of silent films Is now available; and we have already enjoyed Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and some ex­cellent cartoons, to mention a few of the films shown, besides several of more gen­eral Interest. All five programmes pro­vided thoroughly enjoyable entertainment.

On other Saturdays we had the foll­owing programme :

October 8th. Mr* Wedd showed us on the epidiascope a collection of photo­graphs taken at Mount House recently.

October 22nd. A debate was held, the motion being that "in the opinion of this houso it would have been better for England if aircraft had never been invented." The dobate lasted some time, but generally tended to miss the point of the motion, which was lost by 15 votes to 22.

November 5th. In spite of a slight fog, the usual firework display was held, and a fuller report will be found else­where .

November 12th. Half term exeat.November 26th. The second debate,

this time the subject being that !,In the opinion of this house bicycles should be subject to the same regulations as motor vehicles." Although fewer people spoke than might have been expected, some very

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good speeches were made on both sides, and when the time came to vote there was nearly a riot, the motion being lost by 23 votes to 8.

A report of the puppet show„. held on Monday, 28th November, will also be found elsewhere.

GUT FAWKES1 NIGHT .On November 5th at Mount House.First of all we had a very good tea.

Then we went down to the changing-room to put on our shoes; after that we put on our overcoats, and went down to the broad path, and waited for about five minutes.

Then the fireworks began. Y/e had all sorts of fireworks: Jack-in-theboxes, rockets, Roman candles, and many others.

After the fireworks we went on to the top playground, and watched the bonfire, with the guy stuck up In the middle; and the band had its instru­ments s and we played and sang all sorts of jolly tunes.

Then we went up to the form-rooms and had game s.

The first one was a nib game, and we divided up Into sets, to see how many nibs we could get, and see which side won.

The next was called "Ghosts’'. Two people w ere fiGhosts" and they went about in the dark with a piece of chalk, chalking people on the back, and we took off our shoes.

Then we had a flour game. We had some flour and made It into a heap, and patted it down. We put a marble on the

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top of the heap of flour, and in turn we had to take a knife and cut a slice off the heap of flour, trying not to knock off the marble; if we did, we had to put ova? faces right into the heap of flour, and get the marble out with our* mouths.

In the next game one of tis had to hide an alarm clock upstairs, and we took off our shoes, and had to hear the tick­ing of the clock, and try and find it before the alarm went off.

Then we had supper and went to bed.J.ii.C. 9.10.

THE PUPPET SHOW.The puppet show was held in the fifth

form on lionday, November 28th. At six o’clock the show began. Mr. Peat, the owner of the puppets, came out and told us roughly the story of "The Tempest" as we were going to have a scene from it. Then the little curtain went up. The scene was the island on which the old Duke of Milan had been stranded.

The part acted was when Trinculo the new Duke's jester and Stephano, the Duke's steward, met Caliban on the cliffs in the thunder storm, after being washed ashore from the wreck.

The next scene was about an old man who had asked everybody in the village to do his washing but could find no one to do it. At last he saw an old woman whom he had not asked. She was deaf, so he shouted; but finding that no good he spoke quietly. He seems to have liked her, for in the end he asked her very quietly If she would marry him. She heard this and accepted; so he did find someone

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to do his washing! After that there was another scene from 'Henry VJ . The scene was that in which Pistol discov­ered an exhausted French soldier lying by the road. As he could not speak French* Pistol called a boy to translate for him. In the end the poor Frenchman had to pay a large ransom for his life.

The next scene was about a little black boy who never did anything right. The scene was very amusing, as mention was made of many Mount House characters.

To end the show there was the well known song Clementine* bringing in all the characters including Clementine's ghost, which sprang up at intervals with a strange whistling sound, after she was dead.

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HOW A PUPPET SHOW WORKS.The show is erected with small

tent poles and guys to keep them taut and straight. Then the stage is lit by two bulbs by means of a double adaptor. The scenery is slid in just behind the little stage; this enables the person or persons to put their hands with the puppets in front of the scenery and on the stage. For the sky, there is a sheet of very finely perforated zinc which is painted blue. The person working the show is able to look through this, and can see what the puppets are doing without being seen.

The stage stretches forward about four inches, but it does not stretch back into the tent at all.

The puppets themselves have cotton dresses, their heads being made of limewood. They fit on a person's

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hand like a glove, two fingers fitting into the arms and one in the head, so they can be moved.

It takes a person any time from one day to two weeks to make a puppet’s head Puppets heads can also he made of paper.

The curtain can be raised by the puppet worker with his foot; it has two lead weight s weighing it down * but on the pedal is one piece of lead which is equal in weight to the two; therefore the slightest touch on the pedal moves the curtain up or down.

Thunder is made by the worker hitting a sheet of zinc with his knee; for light­ning there are some bulbs in a zig sag line which light up, and look like lightning.

T.H.P.C. 12.6 and

A .E .ii . 12.9

NOTESThe warm wet weather has continued

for the whole term - mild and often sunny mornings followed by daily afternoon deluges.

Thrushes, blackbirds, robins, hedge- sparrows and starlings have sung their dawn choruses in November and December as heartily as they do in the spring.

Violets, primroses and forget-me-nots have been out In the garden since mid November and Red Admirals, peacocks and wasps wore still about at the end of Oct.

Amongst the occasional visitors another hedgehog attempted suicide in the netting but fortunately was rescued in tame. Goldfinches, treecreepers, bullfinches, goldcrests, owls and many pigeons have jjaid visits to the ground and a small bat was seen hunting near LInketty Lane at 5.p.m.

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MUSIC MOTES .Once again Time to report on musical

activities.Examination results are just to hand

and so very hearty congratulations to Windeatt and Thornton, who have been successful in Primary and Preliminary Grades of the Royal Academy of Music.

We welcome four new boys to the pianist list, Eolliston, Tyler. Brian and Stanley. They have all made a very enthusiastic beginning, which we hope w il 1 co nt inue .

The band still flourishes with Kill as a very active new member.

The musical appreciation has in­creased by the addition of 2 extra classes in Forms I and II, where we have Included a Percussion Bard.

The piano boys tea functioned near half-term, they all deserved their little treat; .

Rivers II very nobly won the first practice prize for the summer hols, and Kill carried away the second. An excellent effort. Still another for the next hols, and who will capture it? Happy times to all'

B.C.NATURE I; GTE S „ (C ont inue d)on November 13th.

The last swallow over the school was noted on Oct. 3rd but a late batch were flying above the Hoe on the loth. The last chiffchaff was heard on Sept. 23 th.* Since writing the abob° a bat visited the school on Dec. 12th and spent some time exploring the dining r o om a nd ha 11. Birdwardens : hay, Voelclter, Rivers i, Rivers ii.

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• J J ' JI must seek &r mine.

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GLASGOW CENTRAL STATION.Glasgow Central is about the busiest

station in Scotland, as It has nine through expresses with Euston.

As one enters the station by the main entrance, on the left and right can be seen the Booking Office, and above is the Railway Hotel. Straight ahead is the huge clock, with time tables on each side. There are nineteen platforms.The entrance by rail Is across the Clyde Bridge. This carries over a 1,000 trains a day.

We will imagine that the "Royal Scot1' is coming in. She Is slowly moving to­wards the hydraulic buffers, and stops about five feet from them. Already crowds of people are around the carriage doors, and taxis are waiting nearby. The time Is five o’clock. In every direction we can hear the sound of local trains, which' circle the outskirts, arriving and depart­ing. After about ten minutes the ’’Royal Scot” reverses slowly from the platform, as the station Is a terminus, to the near­by sidings. There are hundreds of people on the platform, mostly workmen taking local trains to different parts of the city. On certain days of the week there are football excursions to places like Kilmarnoch, Falkirk, or Edinburgh. This Is a very rough time, as football enthus­iasts laugh, run, shout, whistle, and generally make a dreadful row on the platform.

P.E .C .15.0.

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FALCONRY.This term it has been my good for­

tune to do quite a number of trips with a friend who is a skilled Falconer. It is a grand method of getting exercise (and a soaking) on an autumn afternoon and gives one an unforgettable thrill.

Falconry is probably the most ancient of sports. Originally, though, ft was not so much a sport, as a means of replenish­ing the larder. Indeed the hunting hawk was in ancient times nick-named ' La luisiniere’. As methods of catching game-birds and animals became more effic­ient, Falconry became truly a sport.

There is a great number of hawks which can be trained for hunting, of which the most usual are the Peregrine Falcon, which can still be found wild in lonely coast districts of the British Isles, such as Hartland Point, and the Merlin a small Scottish Hawk used chiefly by ladles, the Kestrel and the Goshawk, which livos wild in Sweden, and various types of American Hawks.

Training a hawk is a long and arduous task entailing a great deal of regular walking. Therefore It Is scarcely a fit hobby for a town-dweller.

First the hawk must be raade to recog­nise its own master. Its legs are hobbled with a leather throng three feet long, the other end of which is fastened to a strong low perch. The bird Is not fed for a few days and then the trainer, who must be the person who is going to fly the hawk, puts a very strong leather glove on his left hand, and, holding a portion of rabbit in that hand, hopes that the bird will be induced by its hun­ger to perch on his wrist and eat the

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croffered food. °nce this has been accomplished training begins in earnest.

Soon tho bird expects to have all its food while perched on Its trainers wrist. Next the length of the load Is daily increased, until it has to mike flights of up to a hundred feet for its food. Simultaneously with the above process, the trainer has to take his hawk for regular long walks to accus­tom it to perching while he Is walking A sporting dog must be taken too to get used to the birds presence.

Finally the bird Is allowed to fly free to small portions of food, and is then induced back to the wrist by more succulent and satisfying por­tions of nice raw rabbit etc. '.hen this stage has been reached hunting may begin. In hunting, as soon as a prey Is sighted, a quick release knot is slipped and the hawk Is free to fly. Host hunting hawks possess re­markable powers of acceleration and sight; and they catch up with ground prey in an incredibly short distance.It is difficult however for them to catch up with birds already on the wing, as they do not climb very quickly.

Apart from being eminently exciting, Falconry is also a very delightful spec­tacle to watch, a hawk’s flight is like that of a beautifully streamlined fighter monoplane, and Its ’stoop’ or dive is so sudden and swift that one cannot satisfactorily describe it. It just hurtles Itself at the prey with wings folded right back against Its sides.

There is too, the spice of uncer­tainty in Falconry. A bird is a valu­able creature costing up to £7 to buy,

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and one can never guarantee to recapture one's bird, however well trained it may be.A Falconer once flew his hawk at a rabbit early one morning, but, either because it was insufficiently trained, or because it had not been starved long enough, it re­fused to return to the wrist. Instead it flew on from tree to tree with its owner following over hill and dale. This con­tinued throughout the day. During the afternoon the Falconer borrowed a very lean and useless pullet from a farmer, which he could not pay for, as he had brought no money out with him on his unexpected hike.He promised to return the fowl, or else pay for it later. Finally when darkness fell, the bird went to roost for tho night in an uncliinbable tree. Then the weary hunter tried to sell the lean pullet to a poulterer This gentleman however, would have norif1 of such a skinny creature, but out of the kind­ness of his heart lent him half a crown, with which he eventually made the thirteen miles journey home, having had nothing to eat all day.

Space provents me saying anything more, but if ever you are hard up for a hobby you could not do better than taking up Falconry - that is when you are grown up and achieve those dreamt of days, when one has nothing to do half the time.

uY THOUGHTS . A -G .Payne .Sitting by the fireside,In my cosy room,Winter gales are blowing All Is dark and gloom:But I think of Spring Time With Its happy days,Skies so blue, whore birds climb In their cheerful ways.

A.G.P. (23) 11.7

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CROSSWORD PUZZLE. CLUjiiS.ACROSS.

1. Put her on wood to find him.

5 & 6 Down: He would be a gruesome con­tainer, but for nothing replaced by a letter.

7. He sounds almost as if you had done it.

9. Don’t jump on beds in case they sag.

11. A lake without ahead becomes before.

13. Comes before a fall.15. Boys seldom — soap.16. Behead a number and

this is no longer odd.17. It is nice to this

a sweet.18. This ape twisted is

usually 10 Down.19. If you take me from

this, Fronch and is loft.

20. We start with this.22. Reverse these little

pegs for a little bit.

25. Not in France.28. "I stand” said the

Roman.29. They are often

scarlet, not unnatur­ally.

30. Even the longest term has it at last.

31. A boy’s name seems to imply this rodent bythe sea.

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DO'.YS.1. T ito knocks should

be followed by a - -2. He blooms in Sprixg3. Many a Roman bore

this burden.4. The past of 17 dcr/ja6. See 5 Across.8. Boys like climbing

those.10. This shade makes

him sound like an avenue.12. Taffy?14. Virgil makes with

nothing for why a satyr father.

19, Oliver Twist asked f o r --21. Shall we give him

to a dog.23. The Cockney said

it to the batsman.24. Frenchman’s harbour

is less than his door.

26. If we call 21 Dovoi by his nickname xig must give him to a monkey.

27. Part of a circle found in an Irish­man.

OLD BOYS’ NOTES.P.M. Hood. Married and has a daughter. After Sherbourne spent a year in Germany teaching English. Two years in Metropolitan Police. Designer in iron and manages Oxy-Ferrolene Ltd.We were very pleased to see Cadet M. Martin, who has just come to Keyham.Fo Read. Letter from Petergate, Blundell’s.P.Be ^ingell. Letter wishing Mount House a good term.We were glad to meet Cadet Kelly, in "Vindictive" who called one Sunday afternoon.And pleased to see again Cadet Symons, who came up to the school Saturday, Oct. 29th, on the occasion of the match against Plymouth 17 th.N. Rivers visited the school during the holidays.Mr. Mciiagten, the eldest of three brothers who were here long ago, called one afternoon towardshalf term.Letter from R.W. Hosking,from Old House, Blundell, Tiverton, who is in Form Va. Is in the House Junior Rugger Team which is in the final against the School House. Blundells got the Devon inter­school sports shield fairly easily. Dartmouth, their only dangerous opponent, came second. Blundell’s first fifteen lost against Sherbourne and Clifton.iJ'e were very glad to be able to welcome a visit from R.O. Hosking and McKinley during this term.Letter from C.R. Black, Old House, Blundell's.He is in form Lower 5c, and has been top since the beginning of term. The Rugby side has not been very successful this term, but the 2nd XV defeated the 1st XV of Kelly College.Visit from Langley, who is at present studying Divinity at London University.

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OLD BOYS1 NOTES (Continued).Letter from C.W. Turner at St. Edward’s School, Oxford. The 1st XV have won most of their matches including those against Marlborough and the Rich­mond "A" Team. Has played in the End Junior Team several times. Chicken pox is the rage at presentLetter from D. Kirke, from Courtenay House, Kelly College, Tavistock. Soon will be in the O.T.C. Finds it to his great advantage being a scout, as few of the new boys have been scouts in their old schools.Letter from W. Russell, who seems to be enjoying his new sphere of life hugely.

S G H 0 0 L O R D E R .DECEMBER 1938.

PORI I VI. REMOVE.1. May 13 .0 1. Hosking 12.92. Blight 12.8 2. Chatf ield 12.63. Shearme 12.7 3. Chilcott 13.04. McEwen 12.0 4. Morris 12.95. Lawton 13.3 5. Tidlooald ii 12.36. McCloy 11.11 6. Rivers ii 12.117. D'Arcy 13.4 7. Rivers i 12.118. Windeatt 11.10 8. Tidboald i 13.5

FORII V . FORM IV.1. Dannatt 12.2 1. Atkins 11.42. Voelcker 11.4 2. Lloyd 8.113. Evans 12.1 3. Tyler 10.84. Rooiue 11.4 4. Caffir 10.35. Vallance 12.2 5. Taylor 10.96. Thornton 11.97. Gr e e nstr o et 10.4 6. Maddock 11.48. Waller 11.1 7. GlynnePercy 10.99. Tyler i 12.0 8. Bone 10.510. Horsfell 12.3 9. Cameron 10.111. Heap 10.1 10. Weston 10.812. Jenkin 11.6 11. Spear 11.313. Rat cliffe 12.114. Payne 11.6Grenfell 11.4 (■unplaced) (27)

FORI.I III. 2A ,,1. Bensted Smith 9.5 1. Lishman 8.102. Elford 9.2 2. Crawfordi 8.73. Kal^n 10.11 3. Lowry 8.14. Henwood 9.r 4. O’Riordan 9.75. Drake Clarke 10.11 5. Alexander 8.76. Boliston 9.10 6 . Thoma s 9.47. Kill 9.7 7„ Thornton ii 9.1 18. Dunlop 9.99. Harvey 9.5 2B .10. Hocking 9.4

1. Vickery 7.8I_. 2 . Fleming 8.10

3. Eyle s 7.101. Paton 7.0 4 . Vallance ii 7.312 . Sims 7.4 5. Campbell 8.93. Dobell S.11 6. Tucker 8.94 . Mtunford 6.3 7. Inne s 7.75. Poile 6 .6 8. Crawford ii 7.16. Symons 7.2 9. Weston ii 8.47 . Bartholomew 6.8 30. Brian 8.18. Surman 7.2 11. Lister 7.79. Stanley 7.1 12. Chiswell 8.8

33. Somerset 8.6(unplaced)

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