ONE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 74, 24 September 1927, Page 14

ONE DAY

It was holidays. Denis Gray went | to play with his friends, Bernard and Andrew Smith. Andrew's sister Patricia looked out of the window. "Hullo," she said. "Do yon want the boysf They hare gone to the lagoon to get Andrew's boat, which they lost this morning, you know—down by the power-house." Denis thanked her, and hurried to the lagoon, where he found the boys. Tom Jones was there, too. They sdon rescued the boat, then played a stunner game. It was War. Both sides wanted to be British, so they tossed for it. Bernard and Denis won, so Tom and Andrew were the enemy. - Then the excitemet commenced. They had blocks of wood for boats, and each boy paddled out to look after his own little lot. Quite suddenly a bomb fell and the enemy boats were all destroyed except one. The British lost two. Then the enemy fled, so the British were the victors. Then the boys noticed it began to get a wee bit dark, and the rain began to fall, so they hurried to the Smith's, where they played cricket. Soon tiring of that, they gathered flax over by the golf links. Having turned the flax into swords, they started the return journey. Crossing the paddocks they saw a bull. Bernard said: "Has anyone got red on them?" They all had a look. Yes, they were safe. They all wore navy and white, the school colours. Then Denis said, "Oo gee, I've got red bands round these socks, old things you know." "Never mind," said Tom, "turn them over. The bull won't Bee. them then." "That's a good idea," said Denis as he turned them the other way. Then they all hopped through a barbed wire fence pretty quickly. See, that was the quickest way to dodge the bull; but then they had swords, so it didn't matter much, did it? And when they looked round the bull was disappearing over Miramar Hill. HILARY BKOWK (aged 9). Lyall Bay.