Answer to “ Yaltah ”

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 304, 19 September 1936, Page 27

Answer to “ Yaltah ”

I How many members remember a quaint poem by “Yaltah” in which she imagined a I special pet all of her own? Here is "Bose Queen's” reply to that poem: Dear your Girrelebeallon Is a wonderful beast I can see, I, too, have imagined a pet I’d like Called the Cagirrdosiiebee. In size it compares witli tite largest cat. Its legs are as long as a dog's, It ha s a neck like a small giraffe's: And a jump that equal’s a frog’s! It is clothed with wool as soft as the sheep’s. Though in shade is 'cobalt blue. Stripes of crimson, gold and brown. Help to adorn it ton. Two humps-—like a camel's—are on its back, Combined with a face like a sheep. It buzzes like a bee—does the Cagirrdoshebee, The animal I’d like to keep. —Original by Rose Queen (16), Hukanui. ♦ ♦ * The Secret There wag music In the tree tops, Music in the air, There wag music* in the flower plots. Music everywhere. I heard the grasses whispering, I saw the flowers dance; The wind it ‘came a-frollcking And called me as it passed. For they all know my secret. My fondest dream come true, It’s my birthday on the second And I’m to have a dolly dressed in blue! —Original by Ronda, Palmerston North.