FOR THE GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 69, 22 March 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS.

"PEACE AND BIRDS.' A READER'S CHARMING LETTER. ■$ My Dear Girls, — I receive many delightful letter, from our readers, but the ma.lbag thU week contained a letter and a little poem from a Christcburch Budgetite with which I was specially pleased- Ir» Anderson the name of the young writer, and I'm sure she is a very observant and nature loving girl. I liked the letter and poem so much that lam quoting them both, and I know you will enjoy t.-.m as much as I i "This little poem my sentiments exactly. One day I wa. standing by the hedge listening to the birds playing and twittering. I was hS round the corner of the house; as soon as I came into view they all fiew away. If only they knew I couldn't hurt them. But then, others do hurt them. I wish bird, understood which side of human nature was whtcn. Of course I suppose, they would get to know a person who was always WeU? anyway, I came right in and wrote the Intl. poem, wh.ch I am sending to you." PEACE AND BIRDS. r-pt . , The clouds are few, The wind » gone Birds twitter so; H r in ,M e ' O'er all the balm. r 1 am their fee. They fly from m«. As 1 stand near; I would they knew, No cause for fear. > Girls, don't you think this a fragrant little poem ? It is quite true that hirds do *et to know people who are kind to them, and show no fear at all. A Mend of mine ooee" mede chu^h shabby looking sparrow w d hopped indoors; not being Presently the «P^^breakfast table, and take crumb, repulsed, it soon e disappeared; my friend wondered from my friend • One day S om e weeks afterwards there was joy ■ toSd tV "h= . tMy wa. back bab, ond twitter., with beak. far ! . Sight myself. We kn stump on the kitchen floor told ui £3,'3*W b.bie'., MM. °< •» protection and human understanding. I hope, Iris, you will »ee this letter, and that you will continue I » writing poems. It would be ever so » • jolly for me to hear from Budget t reader* their thoughts and feelings y^/ regarding nature'* always open book.