HCLN YEARBOOK 2005
The map showed the kids where to go inside the old house. The kids followed tunnels under the house. The treasure ship was in the tunnels under the old house.
The ship was surrounded by water. The kids had to swim to get to the ship. When the kids get on the ship they find a treasure (gold, coins and jewels). The old woman’s son helped the kids find the treasure and stops the adults from taking the treasure.
At the end of the movie the police capture the old woman, the con and the old woman’s friend. The kids get a reward for helping capture the con.
One of the boys gets some of the jewels for himself. He uses the jewels to save his parents house from being destroyed.
I liked this movie because it was a good mystery. It was never boring and made me think a lot.
The Bull
by Grace McGregor
HCLN student Grace with tutor, Etta
I grew up in New Ross with my six sisters and three brothers. Sometimes my family was hungry, so us kids, me and my sisters and brothers, went looking for apples that fell on the ground from the trees in a field. The field belonged to Roscoe Porter. Roscoe had cows and a bull. The bull was in that field all summer.
We had to go through a barbed wire fence to get into the field where the bull was. Sometimes we ripped our clothes on the barbs on the fence. Once we got in there, we were afraid of the bull. Bulls will chase you and throw you up in the air with their horns. They are very angry, crazy animals. A bull can kill you. We were so scared but we needed those apples. The bull chased us lots of times but when you’re young, you can run so fast. We had to pass him to go swimming too. Boy, that bull sure made life hard for us. It was us against him.
We were scared but when you’re a kid you don’t think about dying. When I think back now, I’d never go back in that field with that bull in there. I can’t believe we lived in all that danger. But I look back now and I have to laugh. I wonder what ever happened to that bull in the end.