OUR RING TO-NIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 32, 9 February 1929, Page 15

OUR RING TO-NIGHT

Edward Boosie, Seatouri.—l was wondering whether that would bo a. jolly time for lots : of us, and was sorry as anything when I saw the rain. A new year and a new class Is rather exciting,, isn't it? Valmai Hildreth, Karori,—lt sounds a pre- • clous place to go to and yet I've never heard of many doing it. Do they? Tell us all the fun and beauty of it. again . . . and more ... for your Holiday Letter, eh? "Tinker Bell," Northland.—Lots more news than that is coming next time, though, isn't it? 0, but I'm glad your days were so full of things. ... "Irish Mary," Miramar.—Did you make it all yourself, my clover one?..; I think you'd rather keep all that you have told us for another day; somehow . . . so I shall. "Rob Roy," Levin.—They're shy and lovely things ... so soft and swift. I'd like to . hunt him with.you among the maize. And I haven't ever watched the bucking steers. I'd like to do that too. / ■ "Peter Pan," Wadestown.—lt will bo "wonderful to have her back, my.l'etprl I.love your "proud geraniums" , and dewy nights." Aren't words beautiful things! And the tilings that music shows. ... Grahame Goodwin, Wadestown.—l don't often havo the luck to see them., . . . and when I do it's in a tree a bit too hard to shin up. But once I found' a lark's nest on tho (.'round and heard the mother bird rustling in tlie grass nearby. '■ "Sunbeam," Wellington.—When you come to think of it, it would bo quite awful never ' to meet your classmates again ever, wouldn't it? How we'd hato a holiday that went on and on .'.\. like the tail of- Christopher Robin's dormouse, I. ;. "White-oye," Upper Hutt.—That was dear of you to give me. a tecnty bit. of your country 1 evening shut up, in .'a lottcr>;card . . . just for a moment I looked „:"d..o>vh . that Hold," too. A photo of one's-body!;only could never bo a tremendously good.'likenpssl" ..- "Tinydrop," Karori.—lsn't\it\quier the way tennis balls turn up/after .long long times with never a word,of where they've,been .. . ■ 1 always feel they ought real]y: to make some sort of apology for'; Mippinifaiyay. Jiko that in tho middle .of thp .'Biiin&T^ '" 0," ■'"'• "Sleeping Beauty,"', khanHaHahy— "Blew three big branches otr the slde'spo.reti.?'..;.:That was a torriblo storm and a, queer porch, surely? II But isn't it a Queer adventure' to ybo wakened with rain oil your.-face and,, havo to trail round'with sound-asleep'Ueela 6n to find another bed I •■vi%';'>■ '■"&" ■'■ ;. ii "Tortcllini di mele," carissimi mif>iV . Kelburn. —And I won't have.'the-title, of: tho' second verse, mysterious 0n0'.',..-v/'';Ps; it's.-a-greater thing than just folly :thiit';sendsS men out to their death. The fltstl'like a'Mot, but I could Wsh ho were a New Zealand[bird. Joan IH'Cormick, Wellington.—Yes, it's that, mostly. Time picks you'up.'.just as^soon as childhood begins to tip-toe, away, and flings from one thing to another . .•';' and, before you know, days, months', havo gone over. Was it the horse of-Uio "opal circle of tho sky" that held you most, I wonder ? Come, then, on Monday,, between twelve and one. Audrey Pointon. Petone.—l -think I would have been too' '.•'.-. driftwood, brokon bits of things from far away, isulwaysisqvfull of stories. The sea's strength, makes frail stuff of our handiwork. .' , -„■.'■ ■ "Wendy," - Karori.—That's good, small tiling, that you-like them . . .and perhaps well see a pale mauve sheet ovory week now.' "Goldilocks," Island Bay.—You've crammed every moment, wlao one. Did 'the big ones give' tho nuts to tho babies or gobble them up themselves when they had cracked thenu You typo well vow. I'll not be minding a liit if you "do it always, 'cause it's just "' so much moro practice for those lingers, isu t tn?. ■ ' ■ ' - r ■",':' -;■:' ■■.- "■ Marion Dick. 'Weillnu'toh^Ho'-'soiiiWs a rolly-c-uddly one, is lie? What have you named His White-and-Blackncss ? Douglas Pointon, Petone.— Doesn't It ™kc y°u want to awfully when you see other boys clng regular fishes I Suddenly one day, to shallow safe water, say to yourself ' I can swim" Bo very positive about it, ana si'lko out sowly ami easily for the-shore. You'll mid a queer; thing.' You'll Und . you ''can.. -. ' ' ■■_''■■'• .' '