July 1963 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls( Grammar School Magazine

July, 1963

July, 1963

Brisbane Girl"' Grammar School Magazine

THE VALLEY

C(OSW!O e.D.

Up, up, up they went until it seemed as though they would never reach the top. The calls of the birds and the jabbering noises of the playful creatures rang out down the stony hillside, while a graceful bird, which was diving and swirling above them in the azure sky, seemed to encourage them on their way. At last they stood breathless on the summit, their eyes drinking in the unbelievably beautiful sight which unfolded before them. The mountain dropped away suddenly to a quiet, little valley where a miniature torrent, tumbling in a bubbling, sparkling cascade rippled through lush green pastures. Weeping-willows hung their heads and dipped their long leafy fingers in the cool water beneath, while the multi- coloured parrots flocked from tree to tree providing an im- pressive display. Several cottages with white-washed walls and thatched roofs, snuggled in the mountain sides and outside one of these there stood a farmer - .a man white with age - hitching his tired old draught horse to a plough while his wife scattered the grain for the cackling hens and quacking ducks . Out in the field the ripening harvest uttered an uncomplaining sigh as it swayed in the gentle breeze. In one corner of the valley, a long brown road wound down the mountainside through the spruce firs which covered the slopes and across the heather at one end of the vcrlley until it looped its way through the crofts and disappeared once more into the hills . As the sun journeyed further towards its zenith, the valley was bathed in a glow of magnificent rays. The damp stone fences took on a golden hue in the new light and the earth sparkled as the sun played with the minute droplets of dew. High above, the mountains towered majestically, their tops wreathed in purple as they seemed to scrape the sky. Because this setting was so perfect and it created for the admiring viewers a wonderful vision which they shall never forget, it was as though they had stepped from reality straight into a picture book. -SUSAN NOSWORTHY, IVD. 30

ACROSS 1. remembrance 1 memory. 6. wild animal , preying on sheep. 8. year. 9. . . . . de triomphs. 11. to extend, spread out. 13 . above all, especially. 14. a bird has one. !5. some people put stamps in it. 18. an expression 1 manne-r. 20 . to hasten, hurry. 22 . lesson. 24. everyone has two (plural ) . 2.7. narrative of a detached incident. 30. to, at, in. 3L I st person, singular of the verb "rire." 33. prefix of the verb meaning to meet. 34. closed, shut. 35. pronoun meaning 1 'such. 11 38. threshold, silL 39 . young cow. 40. opposite to CE·lui-la' is a lui- . 41. the first. 42 . slowly.

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I. not having. 2 . indefinite pronoun. 3. green (feminine form). 4. born. 5. similar to a mouse. 6. made in Ireland. 7. proof.

9. grow in gardens. 10. a farm animal. II. state. 12. offspring of animal before birth . 16. masculine of "la . 11 17. a sea bird. 19. third person, singular number. 2 I. like a horse. 23. contraction of cela. 25. conjunction. 26. to break to pieces. 2.8. to believe. 29. contraction of "de les. 11 32. see 38 across . 34. ''en un . . . d'oeil. 11

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36 . a common liquid. 37. a heavenly body .

39 . Bordeaux is famous for it. 4.0. de.·monstrative adjective.

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