The Winter Wind.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 219, 16 September 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

The Winter Wind.

(By Eleanor McKlnnon, Mount Eden.) Within the rutsheg the wind was sighing. It was the winter wind. Softly it eang, sweeping tiny ripples of water againet tlio bank* and catching the leaves that lay on the lake and whirling them, dripping, into the air. A beautiful maiden came down to the waters to gather «ome rushes and when the wind saw that she was weeping he stole lip to her and smoothed back her hair, and kieeed the teare from her checks. "What saddens thee, daughter?" he asked in his soft, mulling voice. "Oh, dear winter wind," she said. "The la*>t even, my little brother Tanin strayed from honie. He hae not been found yet, and I fear that he has been killed bv the beasts in the forest." Here, the young girl covered her face with her hand. High in the «ky ho travelled. Sweeping the clouds impatiently before him he swooped lower and soon was moving through the trees of the great forest. The trees swayed as lie rushed past and cascades of leaves fluttered to the ground. The grasses and ferns bent to the ground and birds flew high from the gale of air. Here and there dived the wind and as the sun touched the hill he came upon a small boy and above the boy stood a wolf. The wind rushed into the attack. With an eerie cry he bowled the wolf over and seized the lad. The boy was asleep and the wind carried him gently across the sky to the village where he put the boy on the doorstep of his home. Only flits girl Kosin knew who had saved the boy and that night she went down to the lake to thank the wind. Wliaii the girl was an old lady she still werit down to the lake and one evening slie vanished, and it was said that the wind had taken her to his kingdom in the sky. Some night, perhaps, you will see a form of an old lady drifting in the clouds that the winter wind is blowing.

above on the white; paint the owl a medium grey and the edges blue, deep green or black. Punch 4in holes, say about 1 lin apart in the edges as suggested to receive the lacings. Be mure these holes match. With a fine bru <h draw lines to indicate wings, feathers and eyes.

Fold the bottom Jin edge of each owl ill and tack it to the base so the corners coincide, and with a white, yellow, medium red or liluo ribbon of suitable width, say 3-Sin or Jin, lace the corners, finishing the top with a bow. Paint the feet on the edges of the base and the basket is ready for use.