CONTENT AND DISCONTENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 224, 21 September 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

CONTENT AND DISCONTENT.

(By June Clarkson, 592, Dominion Road, Auckland, 5.2 ; age 15.) The sun shone down merrily through a canopy of interlacing manuka boughs and punga fronds upon the little stream. It trickled sluggishly between sunbaked banks, gurgling a song to the drooping maidenhair and mosses which were growing on its banks and which were slowly wasting through lack of moisture. Night succeeded day, gradually casting her starry, purple cloak over the sleeping earth; and then —an ominous rumble of thunder was heard, jagged flashes of lightning rent the heavens in twain, rain clouds gathered and buret into a deluge of pelting raindrcps. It was day again: the sun was shining —oh so timidly now—on the little stream which was no longer singing, but was roaring and seething in violent temper as it screeched and shouted in anger at the maidenhair and mosses, threatening to tear them up by the roots. But, what a different effect that mere fall of rain had made on tlieso plants. They were not giving vent to ill-temper on all who came their way. they were not screeching or shouting in angry tones. Not they! They had lifted * their heads in thankful prayer for the life-giving rain.