To Nana's Freinds

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

To Nana's Freinds

Dear Little Ones, —

Have you ever seen a fairy ring? Peter and I did when we went mushrooming the other morning. Just a little round ring of white mushrooms it was, but I'm sure that was where the fairies had danced the night before.

Peter picked them all, and one of them was quite white underneath. I told him it was a toadstool, but he took no notice of me and put it straight into his basket. Further on we found some yellowy toadstools, and these Peter refused to pick. They were so pretty, too, like pointed fairy caps. There were othe.rs down in the same hollow that Peter did not see. These were tiny white balls which some day, if they are not picked, will grow into a puffball bigger perhaps than a footIbalL

There are very beautiful toadstools, too, like the great orangy ones with little white flecks upon them, known sometimes as horse mushrooms or fly fungus. Then there are little pink ones, and ones with purple underneath. Very pretty indeed they are and very poisonous too, as are the puffballs, and, in fact, any form of toadstool at all.

So don't go putting toadstools into your baskets when out mushrooming, boys and girls, however delightful they are to look at. Love from NANA.