DEAR UNTO MY HEART.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 228, 26 September 1928, Page 19

DEAR UNTO MY HEART.

'"Dear unto my heart" is a silver medal which I won for a lirst prize when I was in Standard 11. This medal is < almost a square, and it has on it a head of an owl and on the middle of it are my initials.—Yvonne Brown, 15, Essex Road, Mount Eden, age 13. * * » * Every time I go into the bush or out | fishing, I take with me a huge sheath knife, which is "Dear unto my heart," because I brought it from Auckland, long ago.—Ronald Fitzgerald, A 157, Ruapeliu Street, Oliakune Junction, age 12. * * • * My shells are more "Dear unto my heart" than any of my lifeless posses* sions. I have some that are very beautiful. Others are not so delicate, but I have more of them. They all remind me of the time I spent collecting thein, on: "A beacli where the slow waves thunder. The green curls over, and the white falls; under, On the sun-bright sand." —Mirabel Brew, 32, Shac-kleton Road. Mount Eden, age 15. * * # • "Dear unto mv heart" is a little piece of hand-inade lace, very finely done. As it is very old. and was made by my great-grandmother, I treasure it" very much,—Cecil Upton, Remuera, age 11 years • • • • One of the things most "Dear unto my heart" are the prize tickets which I have received for knitting, crochet, and needlework in various shows around here. I have had twenty-two first prizes, eight seconds, three thirds, and two highly commended. The first prize 1 got was in May, 1925. I am very fond of handwork, and this is why I treasure the tickets so much.—Phyllis Blake, Xukutawhiti Road, Whangarei, age 11. * * * * One thing very "Dear unto my heart" is an aeroplane given to nie by mv father. I like it very much.—Horace Burgess, 41, Prospect Terract, Mount Eden, age 7 years.