The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-06-22

Evening.
Last night whenI went home Annie
Mckenzie and Maud o Hara said the,
would have a game. of croquet. While
enjoying the game Nellie Vaughn came
over with horse and buggy and asked
us to 60 for a ride. We said we would
go, of course: We. drove in the direction
of Emerson, and we met a man who said
he had one little girl and two little boys
They are coming to Pembina to school
When we got back we drove all over
town. Our hats blew of and we had
asplendid time.
MAUD ABRAMS.
From Home at School
When I was to school at st. Boniface
all the scholars went far off for a picnic
We went to see q beautiful College. and
then a year after that I had to go to the
Convent of Winnipeg. There we had
another picnic and the girls went to see
Lake Winnipeg. They said it was very
nice lake. did not 60; I was too tired.
All the small children stayed with nuns
picking some flowers. When the bic
girls came back we had some beautiful
flowers. And we had swing. When
we were tired we could go and swing
We stayed there all the afternoon. We
had as much fun as the big girls.
- CLEMENcE GERoux.
ALetter from my Aunt.
The other day I got a letter from my
aunt. She said that they caught three
little ducks. They live just little way
from the slough and ducks are thick
there. These little ones were very small.
They had no mother but aunt had
a hen with some little chickens and she
let the ducks 20 with the hen and chicks.
She told me they seemed to be very hap.
py and were very quiet but after few
days they all died. 1t was really too
bad.
MINNIE OLIVER.
Bread.
Bread is made of flour, which is made
in grist mill. The wheat is crushed
and afterwards sifted-the flour being
thus separated from the bran. The flour
is formed into dough by being mixed
with water and yeast which is left to rise.
The dough is then placed in pans and
baked.
ROBERT PARKER.
Wolsey.
My sister had little dog whose name
was Wolsey. Papa bought him from
4 man down town when he was pup.
He was all black except little white
spot on his tail and breast. He was just
to be cunning, when we lost
him. When we asked him to shake
hands, he would give us one of his paws.
tie was learning to sit up for anything he
wanted as though he were begging. Pa
pa has hunted all over town, but cannot
ind him, and 1 am afraid he is
lost.
LILLIAN NIXON.
Our School.
60 to school in Pembina. 1t is a
large brick schoolhouse and is two
stories high. In the first story there is
! large hall, two cloak rooms
Ind two large school rooms. In the
upper department there is hall, two
clothes rooms, two recitatians rooms
md class room. It is all plastered OH
the inside. We have three teachers
MIR. Travis, Mrs. Travis and Miss Thack-
or. MIR. and Mrs. Travis teach upstairs
md Miss Thacker down stairs. I like
% go to school. 1 study grammar, read
ng, geography, arithmetic. spelling and
writing.
- MAUD O'HARA.
A Hunt.
One Saturday mourning about9 o'clock
ny companion, whom I will call John,
ind started fora hunt. We had heard
here were good many ducks between
MIR. Grogan's and Mr.. Kneeshaw's so we
started in that direction. We walked a
rood way before we came to any sloughs.
Then we did not see any ducks and as
we were hungry we thought we would
Eat our dinners and wait for the ducks to
come to us SO we could shoot them. But
no ducks came so we went on to another
slough which we found full of ducks.
We crept up and fred good many times
but the ducks kept too far away. So
John thought he would 60 to the other
side. He started and on his way found a
small canoe. He then padded towards
me and on his way shot two ducks as he
thought. But I asked him why they
had pointed bills and why they did not
have webbed feet. He thought he had
shot kind of ducks never before seen.
had nothing to say against his superior
judgement. We then got into the canoe
which was SO small it nearly sank. John
having a breech loader, took the canoe
BY himself and I got out and walked
along the bank. Hearing Johns gun
crack pretty often I thought we would
have lots of game andwe had bargained
70 divide. After a while he came to
shore pittiful sight indeed. One of his
boots was gone, the water was streaming
from him every where and his teeth
we're chattering like monkeys. Iasked
1im what had happened. He said YOU