Sunbeams Only

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22419, 4 June 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Sunbeams Only

A LETTER IN RHYME - Dear lady Gay , I hope you’re .well, I had to write. I’ve lots to tell. I played for the team ■ At basketball. Scored all the goals, . Ho trouble at all! I went to. the talkies To see Jane Withers. Also a thriller. Which gave me the shivers.

Now I’ve written this rhyme 1 feel so gayi Sold me an answer Win delay, —FAV SINCLAIR, L.B.H. (aged 11), Dunedin. The Answer I liked your letter Dear Mistress Fay, •My love I send,” Says Lady Gay. MAKE A TRACTOR First secure an empty cottonleeL Then take a piece of candle about Jin long and bore a hole through the middle of it. Take two pieces of stick, one longer than - the other, one Sin long and the other about Jin long. Find a strong rubber band and thread it through the cottonfeel-and candle. Put-the

u longest stick through, the rubber band on the candle end, letting one end of this piece drag on theground. Put the other piece of stick through'the rubber on the other - end. To make it go wind the tractor up by means cf the longest stick. . —BERYL CURRIE, Anama. RIDDLEMEREE ~ My first is in go but not in stop. My second is in play but not in work. My third is in sum and also in plum. My fourth is in eagle but not in hawk. My - whole Is something-you like very well. —BERYL CURRIE, ’ Anftma. Riddlemeree Answer: 'Gama. - N

MY BIRD

My. bird whistles to -me, Ijiighrup in a tree, On a Unct so Klih, Nearly touching the sky. —ADA CROMIE, A.B. (aged 10), . ■' Rakaia.

TWO TRICKS

T OST—A pet monkey by a man -M with an. extra long tail. . TOSI“Apw g irl contain- • ing a few coins and a driving license. —NOELINE CLEMENS.

STRANGE TASTES - Laddie Likes Pears T Have you ever known a dog-that liked pears? Our Laddie does;' One day I had picked a box. of pears and sat down to eat one. Up. came Laddie and took one out of the bos and sat down and ate it all. He then

took another,out of the box' and,.fan off with it. I followed him,, and found him digging ' a - hole in v fib® back garden, and he popped .thte pear in "and 1 covered it up,;, . Sine® then I often give him a: pear, and he does enjoy it. —LORNA STACKHOUSE (aged 10), A. 8., ••••.• i ... . 61 Junction road, Middleton. MY LUCKY PENNY;.. ' I have, a verymate. Her name is Hazel and XXik# her ever so much. Every’' Saturday she comes down to play; with me. Last Saturday we were:: playing outside our back dqprwhen’fby friend suddenly stooped/ down ' to pick up . a very old penny, which had been tramped into the grbiiiSd

■ t ■ unnoticed. On examining itvw.a found it was dated 1901, with the head of Queen Victoria.* My friend then handed it to me and 'told "me to keep it for luck. ~ . That Saturday afternoon we went to a fancy hat partyand I won first prize for the prettiest. hat, SK» I do believe it really -is a; lucky penny and I will always keep' -1 ? it in my treasure box. , *'y > —WAI THOMAS (aged f ID, ■ Taumutu, THE FAIRY QUEEN;; ’ If you ever went to Fairyland, . ’ I suppose you’d like, to,see;, ; . The kind.and gentle fairy queen.- , Very beautiful-is'she; - " '’! ~/ T

Her palace is made)of moonshine. With doors of solid gold; , r , ' The steps are made of ivory,: : j ’Tis wondrous to behold. .: t ' —BEVERLYYr STO'Ol» • " * Oatoani