HAPPY HOLIDAY TIMES
\ "Play Beaches"
*,: This is one of the games my little sister "and I play. Because* we cannot go to the beach ••these holidays we play at beaches on the lawn. JOinder the trees is the beach, and the rest is the sea. We pretend to go for paddles and swims. We have a boat, and mummy gets us - a basin of water, and we pretend that's the sea -'..andwe sail it. . We have a beach-ball each, and we throw it on to the lawn and pretend to swim after it. - -. -We pretend to be camping and "have our " camp under trees. We have a fishing line each,
and .we go on to the verandah, which we pre- - -tend is the rocks, and we fish from there. We -.-: have leaves for fish, and a jar to put them in. : ;"When we have caught a lot we go and sell '.: them to mummy. .-- ■ • —RAE BURLEY (aged 7). :■ .-->-._ Bepton street.
fc 1 '- THE SILK SHOP
;£.'■"' One day I got out a seat (without a back) ,-and put it in the washhouse, the day being :■: 'Windy, [When this was done I went out into the
.-.garden and picked up fallen rose, poppy, snapjri wagon, and lots of other different flower petals. ... |he petals were the silk. There were lots and y lots of colours. My brother v/as different, cus■*T*tomers, and I sold lots of silk that way. :c v-. —MARGARET HARRISON (aged 10), "sf ;. _ The Deans, Amberley.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21992, 16 January 1937, Page 6 (Supplement)
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