SUMMER

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22389, 30 April 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

SUMMER

My book dropped from my lap with a thud, startling a bumblebee which was sipping nectar from a nearby flower. I had been sitting in the garden and had fallen asleep. My brother was lying on the grass not far from me and he also was ii i——n i

1_ Mrrn-me TMINTI-f" f asleep, his head pillowed on his arm, The. garden was drowsing in the noon day heat, and there was little sound except when now and then a bird, more lively than the others, twittered lazily. The flowers were bright and in full bloom, sending forth into the air their delightful fragrance. The sun was shining and a few feathery tufts of cloud floated aimlessly in the azure dome of the heavens, I picked up my neglected book and began to read. —'MATE STAR OF EVENING. Timaru.

A small boy stood at the entrance to a cobbler's shop, watching the man at work. "What do you repair boots with, » mister?" he asked. B "Hide!" replied the cobbler sharply. "Er-r—eh?" "I said hide!" replied the cobbler impatiently. "What for?" the boy insisted, somewhat surprised. "Hide! —the cow's outside," sighed the man. "Don't care if it is. Who's afraid of a cow, anyway?" said the youngster defiantly. —'MATE HIRIWA, Hawarden.

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