Competition Corner
all about streets
HAVE you ever stood upon a hilltop and seen the city roll away on every side, far below, endlessly grey and delicate? If you have looked closely you will have noticed how the broad bands that are main streets are crosshatched and furrowed with the outlines of countless wiggly lanes, paths and tracks. Next week’s competition is going to be centred around streets. Perluips a close inspection of your own street will yield some descriptive ideas. Sometimes there are beautiful stately old houses, mysterious and romantic with green lawns and blossoming trees enclosed behind ivied walls; or there are crooked little streets with verandaed shops huddling together; streets with special characteristics and charm. Verses, stories, or bright paragraphs using streets and houses as their main themes should be posted to the league office not later than Wednesday- . . . . . This week’s competition brought many entries—-but most of them were below page standard. Points to Miss Billy (17), Flotsam (17), for giving her story a fanciful twist, and Snow Fairy (ID.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 18
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173Competition Corner Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 283, 24 August 1940, Page 18
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