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(1) POPULAR BOY AND GIRL, 1929: To Willie Leeson, of Greenville, Naas River, and Rosalind
Watsor, of Skidgate, Queen Charlotte Islands, has been accorded the highest honor that is in the hands
of the students to bestow—election as “most popular” Boy and Girl. Both are to be congratulated
for the fine and pleasing qualities which have won them this gratifying distinction.

(2) NELLIE THE PIEBALD NAG: “Old Nellie” is a real Coqualeetza “character.” For years she
has been a familiar figure on the farm, and a great favorite, in spite of the fact that she is exceedingly
temperamental in her likes and dislikes, and very decided in her ideas of when and how long she shall
labour. If disinclined to work no amount of cajolry will ensnare her into the traces, although with a
great display of innocence she frequently leads on her would-be captor for some little time before she
finally laughs in his face, kicks up her wicked heels, and frisks off to enjoy herself. If, as sometimes
happens, she grows weary before released from harness, she will sit down on her haunches between the
ties of the wagon, as though remarking with an air of finality “I'll not do another tap today”—and she
might as well be unhitched at once, as nothing in the world will budge her.

(G3) ODE TO TROTSKY
To our dear, departed Dog, Trotsky,
Whom we always have all loved a-lotsky:
Our hearts they are sore
That you’re with us no more,
But are laid away in a plotsky.

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