November 1920 School Magazine

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BRISBANE GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE.

November, 1920.

After the Storm.

Sunset-and the earth asleep. Sunset-- with a myriad lingering rays playing over the calm water. They are not anxious to leave this tranquil, beautiful spot. "All the air a solemn stillness holds"-the stillness after a conflict of Nature's forces, the lull after a storm. Anxious faces on the bank scanned the horizon for a white speck, a sail, utterly oblivious of the scene around them. Twilight, with the birds flying homeward; sea-birds soaring gractefully across to that tempting cool, green bank, where evening shadows have already fallen. Still no sign of the missing boat. Night--black night! The moon had hidden in sympathy with the watchers on the bank. For a full minute those watchers peered into the darkness, longing to penetrate the gloom. The moon blazed out. It showed a tiny white In the country children are always eager to hear about the big ciLies with their trams and motor cars, and anyone who is lucky enough to make the trip to a township is always eagerly plied with questions on his return. There are many wonderful things to tell, but the lucky one nearly always ends up by asking for news of some pet pony or dog. The visit is certainly fascinating, but the absence of familiar sights makes the trip lose the glamour it first had. The city children are Inclined to pity the poor country bumpkils, as they are called, but it is wonderful to no'ice how the eyes brighten when Father or Mother proposes to spend the holidays in the country. Perhaps Father has some friends who would like to have them for the holidays. If not. tnere is visiting of agents and advertising for lodgings in some farmhouse. When the day of departure arrives the chil- dren are up early in order to catch an early train which will land them at their destination before nightfall. How the children laugh anti chatter as they gaze out of the windows at the quiet cows grazing in the field. When the train stops at their station they alight to find the farmer ready with a wel- come and a buggy to take them the remaining ten miles to the farm. They only take the

speck on the horizon. It came nearer, nearer, It stopped! Ah! a breeze. A sigh of relief from the bank, for she was safe. No! there was that open passage to cross yet. She was nearly there. Now she sailed gracefully forward, coming: she was over! No! she dipped, she righted herself; she tacked; she was safe. Home, straight for home she headed, that ship with the pure while, milky white sails, home to those anxious watchers; home to brothers and sisters, came this little craft bearing those rash pleasure seekers who had narrowly, so very narrowly, escaped--what? Did they realise? Who can tell!

"And when you see a sailing ship Go out to face the waves, Think of the love that travels Like light upon her sails."

A Visit to a Farm.

light luggage as the cream waggon will brins out the heavier boxes in several days' time. It is nearly dark when they arrive at the farm, and at the soun,1 of wheels the farmer's wife and children come to the door. There are three children, a well grown boy and girl, Victor and Lucy, and a little boy, Jack, of about six. They accord the visitors a hearty welcome and show them their rooms. They then find themselves in a large spotless kitchen where a farmhouse tea is set. There are many good things there, and by the time tea is over, the children go to bed as it is getting late. Next morning they wake up to hear a con- cert given by the roosters in the poultry yard, and the kookaburras or laughing jackasses in the thicket of trees near the fence. They dress quickly and hurry downstairs to find Jack waiting to conduct them to the balls. There they see the esh milk in tie buckets, which are being taken by the two elder chil- dren to the dairy. They follow one bucket and find that it is put into the separator. Their young guide then takes them to the dogs. They admire hi two special pets, Pointer and Dingo, very much as the one is a collie and the other a sheep dog.

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