LITTLE LOG HUT

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 75, 21 December 1929, Page 30

LITTLE LOG HUT

A lonely little log hut, half hidden by the trees, A lonely stream that wanders on its way: A lonely tui calling, calling to its mate. Where mountains rise majestic to greet oncoming day. Golden fronds of toi. waving in the breeze. Tree ferns, palely shining in the glade. Scarlet rata twining, starry clematis swinging By the fern-fringed path, that beckons to the shade. --“Laughing Water.” Eketahuna.

PUZZLE CORNER WHAT IS THIS? A vowel or a consonant with you at its side a part of a walk and the end of a ride: my next is before you while I stand alone. Now number five hundred and each has its own, and next please a season I’ll ask you to name or see the answer revealing the same. RIDDLE-ME-REE. My first is in blsons and also in bulls, My second’s in pushes and also in pulls. My third is in glimmer and also in gleam, My fourth is in simmer and also in steam, My fifth is in stretching and also in bend, My sixth is in tearing and also in rend, My seventh's in fatten and also in thin, My eighth is in pricking and also in pin, My ninth is in marbles and also tn game, My tenth is in different and also in same, My whole is a season that gladness will bring, Far more than the winter or even the spring. BUILT-UP WORD. Before a circle let appear Twice twenty-five, and five in rear; One-fifth of eight subjoin, and then You’ll quickly find what conquers men. MISSING LETTERS. R—m—mb —r W —ll b — p—rf—ct m—n L—st y— n—gl—et th— pr—c—pts ' * — n '