MR. OWL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22166, 20 July 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

MR. OWL

Mr. Owl is very Y Y Y, All day long he shuts his 111, Dreaming quietly at his E E E, Quito unlike tho busy B B B. Sometimes he is mobbed by J J J, Who love to worry and to 6 A. A A, Causing Mr. Owl such W 0 0 O Just when he would like a D 0 0 0. The sparrows also often T T T, Causing him to cough and W E E E, "Tu-whit, Tu-whoo!" he'll sit and MU U U While fearless dickies sit 2 by 22. But when they're gone to beddy-b 111 He quietly leaves his perch and fl I I In the moonlight through the tr E E E, Scaring every mouse ho C C C. - —From Patricia Dixon, Onewhero, age 10. (Copied.)

/v lIIW \\4-lATA LITTLE vC-jp , JAID I saw two dusty little shoes A-standing by the bed; They suddenly began to talk, And this is what they said: "We're just as tired as we can be, We've been nearly everywhere; And now our little master rests — It really is not fair. " He's had his bath and sweetly sleeps 'Twixt sheets both cool and clean, While wo are left to stand outside; Now, don't you think it mean? "We've carried him from morn till night; He's quite forgot, that's plain; While we watch and wait and wait, Till morning comes again. "And then he'll tramp, and tramp, and tramp, The livelong summer day. Now this is what we'd like to do— Just carry him away. "Where ho could never go to bed But stay up all the night Unwashed, and covered o'er with dust— Indeed! 'twould serve him right." "Children's Hour."