OPEN EYES

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 141, 18 December 1928, Page 29

OPEN EYES

.. "I was wandering round in the bush when I heard ~a-'sound lik"- a pretty :'tinkling bell, i Looking,up, I saw three tuis. They were shiny, black and had a little tuft, of white feathers on. their throats. It is front this tuft of feathers that the tui gets the name: of the parson bird." . ■. • . • .'■ SUSIE' MICHAEL.. Masterton. -. : "I was .walking, down and I happened to glance overeat the rising sun. Oh! it was bc,autiful—a big round ball of gold, tipped with, red, and the blue sky surrounded it. I think your fairies must have been jsainting the sun a very bright, gold, for it was suieh a lovely day. I looked at the water,. which had the reflection, of the- sun on it. ( I just felt like.jumping mi" . • . MIR ABLE MORTON. Wadestown. ■ '. .. "The other day I saw some beautiful bronze toadstools growing in • grassy meadow amongst the buttercups, and I saw some clusters of clematis climbing over the tops of trees and making them like mountains of snovr." "PETAL." ' Kkandallah. : •'• : : "Down at i.the bottom of our nextdoor neighbour's backyard there-is a great big pine tree.. Ono day as I was looking up at it thinking what a beautiful tree it was a little bird's nest fell to the ground. As I looked at it I saw., two little broken eggs inside the nest; I felt; very sad." . . ;: ': ■;".; .■•"TINT.:TOT." 'Brooklyn. * ; .. : "I found a poor little bird in the grass on Sunday morning, so I took it ansido and gave it some breadcrumbs and a drink of water, arid then T took it out. and put it on a tree. . :It flew away, and I-hope :it reached,its home before : dark." -• ' ■'■ "FAIRY QUEEN." Upper Hutt. "I was at Wadestown yesterday, and the sights were wonderful. Mount Victoria looked like a huge whale waiting for its prey. Stars shone down on him, and two very bright lights suggested his eyes. The reflection seemed' to come from'the'stars into-.the street lights, and-seemed as though they were all in one." " -' ■' .' NONSUCH.' Karori. ■'■■/■ "The other day we heard a little bird singing,' so we all looked up, and there was a little bird singing a most sweet little song.' As we looked at it, it went higher up.in' thjo air. It looked ;likp.,a; blae.klspecH,.. ; J..'VKo1 still, looked lip" eagerly; wondering what was going to happen next, and it went out of sight. We could still hear it singing, though. . One of.my friends said that it was a skylark," ... ■ BONNY. Brooklyn. ■■..■ ■ ■.■• ... • "As I looked out of my bedroom window about half-past seven, I saw a lovely sight; • Tie mountains in the west were faintly visible, and tho bush by the river and a few pines were darker than the rest .of.,tho. scene. Northward behind the mountains wore flames of a fire, and smoke rising in the air like spirals. The sky was grey with golden streaks in it. . The beginnings of tho grey and gold gradually mixed with one another.'.' . Lovo from ■•.-.'■ JOAN PROCTOB. Rai Valley. "The other day I went for a walk, and I saw a cat that had scratched its leg rather badly, and it was mowing pitifully. When a little dog came up and saw tho cat it .went and licked the bad leg, and the eat began to purr. Don't, you think"' it was wonderful, Fairiel, for them to understand one another so?" -. : ■ ; SUNBEAM.. Wellington. . ' , "Tho other day, looking in tho garden, I. saw a sparrow in. a little- grass prison. Perhaps ho. had been naughty in Fairyland, and had: been put in. prison by the Fiary Queen. But the poor .thing was struggling-to get free, so I went up to it and :broke the grass,-and the - little bird flew away .into the open air, twittering,, as it :Went." ■ LESLIEGANDAR. Kelburn.