1. -914400-1438275SCHOOL MAGAZINE<br />776605202565<br />Invention of parachuteThe parachute was invented more than a hundred years before the aeroplane! It was designed in 1783 by a Frenchman, Louis Lenormand, to save those who had to jump out of burning buildings. In 1797 he gave a public exhibition of parachuting by jumping from a balloon 3,000ft above.<br />-127635-718820<br />KINDNESS TO ANIMALS<br />6172297790Little children, never givePain to things that feel and live;<br />Let the gentle robin comeFor the crumbs you save at home;As his meat you throw alongHe’ll repay you with a song.<br />Never hurt the timid harePeeping from her green grass lair,Let her come and sport and playOn the lawn at close of day.<br />The little lark goes soaring high<br />To the bright windows of the sky,Singing as if t'were always spring,<br />And fluttering on an untired wing -Oh! Let him sing his happy song,Nor do these gentle creatures wrong.<br />A GOOD CHOICE <br />There was a typo on a test<br /> I was taking. Instead of<br /> quot;
(D) none of the above,<br />quot;
it said quot;
(D) one of the above.<br />quot;
So I circled it.<br />RIDDLE<br />What do you always call a man<br />who’s always wiring for money?<br />An electrician<br />-40767363347FLOWER ON ROAD<br />Spring has come, said the bougainvillea Crimson, orange, cream and yellow Making a flower wall along the road I bring h appiness to all. Wait, said the little floweron the edge of the kerb I, too, blossom though I am small Every now and then a little child walks past, sees me at her height And happily smiles. Doesn't that make us comrades on the road! <br />