Wendy Goes Looking For Snow

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 189, 12 August 1939, Page 2 (Supplement)

Wendy Goes Looking For Snow

Dear Sunbeams— It was such a cold day—oh, a really cold one—Just before the campaign closed. Everyone In the Peter Pan department was talking about snow Of course, we don't have it in the Never-Never Land, but even the Lost Boys could remember something about it. As for Tink.-well. she was bringing out lovely emones of snowball fights and snowmen, and ice slides and white hilltops. In fact, the more Tink. told us a out her snow experiences the more envious I became', for, believe it or not. Sunbeams, I have never reallv seen snow. yes, I ve seen it on far off hills, but that is all, and you small people, especially the ones who live in snowy districts, cannot understand just how left out of it I felt. ' wno I 111 6" J 3 " 16 r he I CWS! There ) vas snow 'n Auckland! Yes, they had had quite a heavy fall in outlying r l| r rS f aS , countr y—why, they were almost snowbound! (Of course, it wasn't as bad as lhat° really but that was the news we got one day about a fortnight ago.) ' • eter , a ", lo °ked out of the window and shivered: "I wouldn't be surprised if there's some here," said L nuJ ? f L VO k Ce ' j, > lo ° ked Wisely at 016 sky and said: " That Ueer black clo "d and that queer patch of sky—they do look like coming snow!" it l° U lmaß ' n f r e how f excit ed I became? I almost forgot to be cold. I ran to the window, and, yes, fl L-' °° uT ?Q, ° m a " ytl ? I ,ng Ive ever before. * I felt quite sure that any moment the white es would fall silently down and all Auckland would be covered in a lovely snowy mantle. InoL.nl felt ?.U Ure L lhat o , Simply c . ould not , mlss and as soon as possible out I went along the street, anxiously in the middle of " PC ° P 1 S ° me delightful ideas of snow fi S hts ri sht And then . . ! It suddenly, and with a burst of thunder, began to rain. And it rained and it aineci and it rained. The gutters ran with water and the rain ran off my hat, and I sneaked back to the r-eter ran office hoping that no one would see me. There! said Pan, with satisfaction, as I stood forlornly dripping by his side, shaking the water o my coat. What did you expect with a sky like that? Fancy not knowing that although it might look like snow, it is practically sure to be rain! . , P' I '. dcar ' * have given up the thought of ever having a snowball tournament in f 1 - Auckland City. But wouldn't it be fun? "Af 3 ** Happy thoughts for your coming hoi idays, Sunbeams—