Sunny Autumn Days How Do You Spend Them?

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)

Sunny Autumn Days How Do You Spend Them?

Youthful Cooks. JANE Saturday we made a small tire on the ground. I have some small pots I made especially for the fire. The boys fetch wood and keep the tire going while I cook. We fix the hose to the tap and use it as our water supply. When we have stopped playing we are usually very black and smoky.— Josephine Evans, Levin. Crazy Cricket. Biff I “You’re out!” “I am not!” “You are so.” “All right it’s your bat.” Yes, this is how we spend our Saturday afternoons, playing cricket—of a sort. There are usually about nine or ten of us who are in the “team,” while there arc always two or three specta- , tors. We begin about 1.30 p.m. and play for about two hours; about 3.30 afternoon tea is served. It usually consists of half a sour apple each. When this is over we finish our game, and after fighting out who won it, we depart for home to scrub our dirty hands and knees—a sore and lengthy process.— Rainbow Lady (12), Levin. Bike Rides. On Saturday afternoons iny friend, Elese, and I often bike down to a peaceful little stream about a mile away from the noisy town. It is always so peaceful there, with no sound but the rippling waters and the birds’ sweet music. We often long to go for a swim in the clear waters., but it is too dangerous for swimming. Sometimes, after a picnic tea we go exploring along the bank of the stream. We wish we could cross over to the other side, but as there is no bridge, we have to stay on the same bank. — Wendy (11), Levin. An Autumn Picnic. Last. Saturday John and I went for a' picnic. We followed the gullies where

the most delightful ferns and bushes grow. We found a lovely waterfall, hidden In a riot of terns. It was only a small one, and it tumbled merrily over smooth, slippery boulders into a little “basin” of ihirror-like water, edged with ferns and blue forget-me-nots. John made a boat from a piece of bark and sailed it, while I “explored” further along the creek. There were fantails splashing in the cool water and making little chirping noises, but as soon as they saw me they darted away into the trees. A frightened rabbit scuttled away through the grass. When John came up we started on our way again. The willow leaves had . turned yellow, we noticed —sure sign that autumn is here! We ate our lunch on the top of a hill. "I vote we come for a picnic every week-end,” said John, as we packed up our knapsack. And so now we are going picnicking every week-end —surely one of the most delightful ways of enjoying the sunny autumn days.—N.Z. Lass (16), Waipawa. Swimming. My favourite sport on Saturday afternoons is swimming. We pack up some sandwiches and apples and start’ out on our bicycles. When we reach ■the river we ail have a long swim.— Puss,-in-Boots (9), Otaki. Sky Pictures. I like watching the ever-changing sky. Its moods and changes tit in with miue like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle. Sometimes grey castles appear, then, as if by an unseen hand, crumble or melt away into grey heaps. ' Ships on a painted ocean float for a while, then sail away into nothing. White clouds are like feathery down oozing out of a quilt. Autumn sunsets with their colours of flame and fire make a picture that no artist could paint.— The Ttii (16), Palmerston North.