THE ONE PER CENT.
A GOOD-NIGHT TALE,
"Come on! • Up you jump if you want to go!" These words, accompanied by a vigorous shaking of my shoulder, woke me before sunrise one morning, arid somehow the prospect of getting up early did Jiot seem so alluring as I had thought it the night before. But my brothers a.nd I were soon ready to fitart on our adventure. We were going a-flsliing! It was a cold, grey morning, but the air was exhilarating as we trudged down the Ipswich Road, carrying our jam jars and nets. I tried to chatter about the fish we were going to catch, hut my brothers, who were twelve-year-old twins, tried to look very staid and dignified. They wanted to show me that this sort of business was nothing new to them. We covered the ground as fast as my seven-vear-old legs permitted, and at last came to a five-barred gate. We quickly climbed over it, and then we ran as fast as we could across the broad meadow by the river until we came to some dykes, in the clear water of which our sharp eyes soon spied some sticklebacks. Almost too excited to speak, we thrust in our nets, brought them out again drip-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 88, 15 April 1933, Page 2 (Supplement)
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