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Welcome, once again, to our Pa(;'eo Dear Juniors: 11 CHIL'JRD:1 ' S PAGL This is a true story of some of my experienceso In my youth, I used to be a bird fancier. I loved chickens 7 es1')eci ally . Hy father used to build 1i ttle pens for me, that looked like wigwamso You Houlcl t h ink I had a little Indian Villageo Mother hens and their little ones used to live in these tents. 1-rhenever they were let loose, it was a sorry sight to see one of my pretty lit t le, yellow chicks snatched by a wicked thief of a hawko Then and there, I had a tussl e ,Ti t h thieves. The chicks were left in these pens until they were at least eight 1-:eeks old and had changed colour so that they could_ not be seen so easily by their enemies~ · Across from the John Noble Home in Brantford, lived a kindly 7 white-haired lady. with pretty blue eyes, who kept i:Rhode Island Red11 chickens in her fenced-in back yard. I ·often went there to buy eggs from her to set under a hen or eat them. The eggs were almost as big as ostri r:h eggs and were clark brown in colour. Yum, yum! they were good to eat tooo ti:nyr,1ay, every time I went to see t h is lady we ha d a nice, cheerful chat. One day, I knocked at her do or and she met me wi t h tearful eyes. Immediately, I ask- ed her what had happened. She inv ited me into the house and related her story. Sh,e said, "I just received a message that my daughter, who lives in the west, has died. Shele!;l;:ves a ten- year old daughter. ~le usecl to think that she was too strict in the upbringing of this child - but now we knou ,-Thy. She has left behind a well-trained, loving, mannerly, obedient daughter to fend for her s elf, without a mother." \ Indeed, I tried my be s t to c onsole this grandmother but what could I say? I left her ' in tears. I have never for f;otten this incident. :Ccl. C. P. -::********-l<--lE-*~'°*******-lH~·-l\- The Qood Book says 7 n'I'rain u p a child_ in the ,Jay he should go : and when he is old, he will not depart from it.;; (Prov erb s 22:6); and_ that is just what this mother dido **"~*ol- -l<--X-*.,(-*-l<-,:- An interesting article on ::nats11 by Valerie Martin, Jlge 11, . Room 4, School " 5 BATS The bat looks like a mous e. I t is part beast because it has fur on its body and part bird because it has wing s. Dats are mammals and feecltheir young on milko They usually have a family of two but some have as many as fou:r., }fo matter how heavy the bady bats become, they are still carried around by the mother bats . They live in different part s of the worl cl. 'There are nine hundred different k indsi in rJorth America alone there are thirty:...fiveo The smallest bat is as big as a mouse; the largest lives in ~sia and is as big as a cat. Some bats fly south foi~ the l·iinter but others hib ernate in caves, towers, ruins etc. They hardly breathe, just s leep and sleep hanging upside clown. According to an Indian legend 7the bat hangs upside down to hide its shame from being part beast and part bird. '.I'hank you, Valerie, for ;your research and your findings were so well composedo An Indian also says that a bat is a carrier of . fleas 7 the little black insects that jump here and there and bite and bite. You guesse d my secret~ a bat hangs by its toes and sleeps upside down. 1-Iaybe you woulcl lik e to know that when a bat is born, it is a nocturnal mammal - flies actively by nif;ht. (I think you must have a good teacher, who helped you to research.) }1_ short story by Kevin Hiller , O'·rade 5, Ohsweken Central School. One night , my mother ancl I had to go to the bus station to meet my father. iiother was driving the car and as t·re Fere ricling along, all of a sudden, the car slid across the road into the ditcho Luckily I there was a roaclgT a der coming o As soon as it got us out of the dit ch , mother drove very s lowly to the s tation and we got there safely. ~re told my father about our 2..clventure. -:(--Y,******-¥,***'"°*"s--l(--l(--),--lHt Thank you, Kevin, for your c toryo Am glad you didn't stay in the ditch very long ana_ there was no damage to your caro I t hink I knou what your father said. He said, "Oh, please be careful!:, A "Thank you" note, - Dear Hrso Jamieson ancl iiiss Jamieson: I wish to thank ;you for the lovely " ed.i torial" in your interesting paper about my dear husbando I do appreciate it very much and wish so mu ch he could see it tooo Thank you again so much" Sincerely, Olive Reid ( 1Irso Russell Reid) (continued)