WENDY CHATS

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

WENDY CHATS

Dear Girls, "Ready, steady, go!" Michael is roaring, and the Lost Boys are rushing helter-skelter down the corridor. It is awful. And all this because Peter Pan, in an unthinking moment, promised the fastest runner at the end of March a box of chocolates. Oh, dear! and here they come back again, and the very building shaking on its foundations 1 I mustn't forget to tell you about our butterfly. Last week Peter Pan wrote of the caterpillar we found, and how after a day or so it hung head downwards from a dahlia stem, and changed to a chrysalis. Do you remember? Well, on Tuesday morning there, gorgeous in its lovely colourings, was our Danais plexippus butterfly. How I do wish you could have seen it, girls. Its wings from tip to tip must have measured well over three inches, and the glorious bright amber and black markings, speckled with silvery white dots, made it indeed a tiny creature of beauty. On Wed-

nesday morning we took it to the park, and there, i » j^ amidst the flowers and the greenery, it spread out its k lufl^&^^ lovely wings and fluttered away. ft jQ^A^^^^^^ Love to you all, dear girls, from " &*"