WBHS_School_Magazine_1966 LR 01

THE WRECK OF THE S.A. SEAFARER
"What's the matter?", I said sleepily as I was
awakened. I found it was Air-Commodore Jones,
who said, "There is a wrecked ship with seventysix
passengers on it."
I quickly got dressed and wakened my crew.
We got the helicopter out and went towards the
stricken ship.
By then we were in sight of the ship and we
circled round and after three unsuccessful tries
we got a line down to the ship. We pulled up
the line and took the rescued people to the
gardens. Two more helicopters were called and
between us we rescued everybody on board the
ship. I went back to bed tired, but happy.
A. VANN.
THE STOLEN JEWELLERY
One morning whiJe I was reading the newspaper,
I saw the Mayor's wife's jewellery had been stolen.
That afternoon I was out hiking with my
friend, Arthur Jones, when I saw a sack hjdden
under a bush. We looked inside and found that
it contained the missing jewels.
We were about to take the sack away, when
two men ran up shouting angrily. I guessed that
these men were the thieves so I ran away as fast
as I could.
Arthur began to follow me, but he tripped and
fell.
Quickly the thieves tied a piece of cloth around
Arthur's mouth then one picked up the sack and
they led him away.
Meanwhile, I ran to a nearby police station
and told tbe story to the chief constable.
A squad car was sent out and the thieves were
soon being taken back in the car. We were very
glad that we were able to help in getting back
the jewellery.
THE LOST GOLD
P. MERR1NGTON.
MINE
I have an uncle who was once an explorer. He
told me that when he was on holiday in South
America he went to Rio de Janeiro. One day a
friend of his who was in the government invited
him to join a search party which was going into
the Amazon jungle to look for some explorers
who had set out in an attempt to find some lost
treasure that once belonged to a tribe of savage
Indians.
A few days later the search party was ready
to go. They went as far as the Amazon River in
a land-rover, then they hired two canoes, and
went the rest of the way by river.
Some hours later my uncle heard the trees
overhead rustle. An anaconda slithered out of
them. My uncle picked up his gun and shot at
it but he missed. So he called the other men.
They all fired and at last the serpent feU down
into tbe river. The men got out and pulled it
on to the bank so that the canoes could go on.
The next day they saw a bilJ. They decided to
have a closer look at it so they all climbed out
of the canoes and set out into the jungle.
At the foot of the hill they saw a big cave.
There was a tunnel at the back of it which went
deep down. Suddenly they came in front of a
pile of stones and sand and found that the roof
had fallen in.
They started to shovel it all away, at last .they
had made a big hole.
When they got through tbe hole, they saw the
explorers and treasure that they had found. My
uncle and his men got the explorers safely back
h) the town, but that is only one of my uncle's
adventures.
D. MERRINGTON.
MY TWO HAMSTERS
My two hamsters are as playful as can be, and
are as busy as bees. One's named Dizzy and the
other named Scampy and to watch them, makes
me giddy.
They scurry up and down in their golden
gowns, but when it comes to bedtime, they slow
down, and go to bed sadly.
R. VAN ZYL.
THE LOST KEYS
One Sunday we went down Jacob's Ladder.
We reached St. James beach and played amongst
the rocks. Soon we decided to go back to the
car.
As we sat in tbe car which was parked on
Boyes Drive, my mother discovered she bad lost
her keys. So we had to go all the way down tbe
steps again.
I found the keys next to a rock. My mother
had to go all the way back up the Ladder to
tbe car and drove it back to the beach.
The next week-end I asked my mother to take
us again, but she said, "No. no, no, absolutely
V. HAWfREY.
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