AN ARMFUL OF HAY.
(By Sad in Palmer, 70. Wairoa Koail, Devonporf, iifje 17.)
A new-horn moon was rising in the west. The sky was cloudless and starry, and a great silence swung over the earth, singing "Hush!" and again, "Hush!" Above the sleeping earth Night meditated in the scented darkness, and through her legion of shadows .answered the slumber song of the sea. Throughout a perfect summer day the merry campers on the island had worked and played, gleaning knowledge of (lie beauty of natural things. Now they lay beneath the canvas roof of the 'tent sleeping dreamlessly, while the sea crooned on the sand and the rock-pools glimmered in the starlight. Feace smiled upon the scene, yet danger lurked among the shadows.
All day battleships of TT.M. the King had indulged in the "shocking" business of gunlire—all day the heated atmosphere had quivered with the shock, all day the echoes had tingled through hill and valley and the clouds had faltered in their way across the sky. Danger menaced the campers because of these things. And nothing would have
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 2
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181AN ARMFUL OF HAY. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 46, 23 February 1929, Page 2
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