Evergreen Magazine 
Articles written in 1921 by students of Cootes Store Schoolhouse, Rockingham County, Virginia

 
EVERGREEN ARTICLES:
Cootes Store
The Landscape
The Way It Was
The School
Hunting & Fishing
Poems
First Graders
The Students
 
PHOTOS:
People
Cootes Home
Cootes & Co.
Tintypes
Family Bible 1
Family Bible 2
 
UPDATE:
Flood of 1936
Cootes Store 1999
Chimney Rock 1999
Gap Rock 1999
 
GENEALOGY:
Samuel Cootes
Cootes Deeds (1821 to 1881)
1885 Map
Links
 


 

 

  

POEMS

 
A POOR JOB 

Clifford W. Tusing, 7

Guess what I found
Out in the barn
It’s round and white
And hard and warm.

It’s in my pocket
Now I guess
Oh dear! It’s such
An awful mess!

I guess Ma will not
Want it now
An egg’s a mean thing
Anyhow!

I guess old Speckle
Made it wrong
She’d better make
The next one strong.

THE SEEDS

May Turner, 7

Two little seeds were
Fast asleep
Under the soft white snow
When a dear little
Bluebird sang aloud,
Wake little seeds and grow.

One little seed said,
"It’s too cold"
I’m going to sleep awhile
The other one said "I’ll do
My best
As she wake with a merry
Smile
The lazy seed slept itself
To death
And never woke at all
But the smart little seed
Pushed through the ground
And bare it’s tulip tall

 

 

 
THE BEST WAY 

Johnny W. Ritchie, 8 

Do your best
your Very best.
And do it every day.
Little boys and little Girls
This is the wisest Way

WHAT WOULD WE DO

Paul Runion, 10

If all the trees were cherry trees
And every little boy
Should have like young George Washington
A hatchet for a toy
And use it in a way unwise
What would we do for cherry pies

DAPPLE GRAY

Lloyd Hoover, 7

I had a little pony,
His name was Dapple Gray.
I lent him to a lady,
To ride a mile away.
She whipped him,
she slashed Him.
She rode him through the mire.
I would not lend my pony more
For all the lady’s hire.