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A number of pupils attending Jimmy Lawless’ birthday party at the school Principal’s dwelling.
Jimmy is the ‘pirate’ leaning on the cannon.
Each arriving guest was welcomed aboard with a firecracker fired up in the cannon.

The school building viewed from beneath the large gum tree which seasonally shed its bark and made a mess of
the grassed area in its vicinity. The trunk was too thick and the lower branches too high off the ground to permit
climbing, although one branch swung tantalisingly near the ground which only the taller pupils could reach.