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Floats a lovely apparition 



'Fore the mirror of my eyes, 



And I think of one, ah, long since gone 



To mansions in the skies — 



A sweet-faced maid was she, indeed, 



Whose slightest wish, my rule — 



Ah, those are the days I'm thinking 



Of the girl I loved at school." 



And it may also be that the woman who penned 

 these verses had in mind the boy whose name 

 ** cancelled" with hers most felicitously: 



"When I get to thinking back 

 Upon the days of long ago, 

 And from memory having visions 

 Of the boys I used to know, 

 Comes the saddening reflection 

 Passing years may not o'er-rule, 

 Of my lost love — a dear, dear boy, 

 Who was in my class at school." 



EXAMINATION DAY 



Who, among us, who were so fortunate as to 

 have been educated at a country school but has 

 vivid recollections of "Examination Day." Such 

 an event was usually held in December just be- 

 fore the Christmas holidays. For such occasion 

 the schoolroom would be cleaned with meticulous 

 care and frequently was decorated with ever- 

 greens and tissue-paper flowers. Parents and 

 grown-up sisters and brothers of the scholars 

 would be invited to come and admire them in their 



