BIRTHDAY ADVENTURE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 20

BIRTHDAY ADVENTURE

It was a beautiful spring morning. The> sun was just peeping over the. top of the hills. Tiny fleecy white clouds glided smoothly over the glorious blue sky. • ,^ au, *--¥- was. sleeping peacefully in her snug little bed, but the "fight sun that streamed in through the window and the loud crowing, of a rooster suddenly woke her. „: 'Oh!*?she exclaimed, "to-day is my birthday, arid we are going for.a,picnic in the woods." . : She-quickly dressed and hurried into the next room to wake Nancy, hersister. : c'®o wake, wake up, it is such a gorgeous morning," she said, shakm-*----her'sister vigorously. ■• ?•?.-■ ,In a few minutes Nancy was dressed, and the two- children hurried downstairs to breakfast. The rest of the family Vere: already there, fhere were five of them. Nancy was the eldest and was twelve, Jock eleven^".Claudia ten, Tony seven, while baby Betty, was four. When all the presents had been looked at, which took rather a lO. n S *_"?'. as&ere were so many, they had breakfast. Mummy had promisedl them they co_id go for a picnic in the woods? :•? Me do to," cried baby Betty ,e agerly. ' v vl^ 7 St t °S in the I *-ttle pony and traP that ocl: 80t for nis las' birthday.- After a'lovely drive along a long country road, they came to -top wood. It was such a delightful place to have a picnic. The bis shady trees; kept it nice and cool. The wild primroses and violets save it a?, delicious sweet smell. Jock jumped down from the trap and tied the pony to a tree, where he could get plenty of grass. The children were very hungry, and so had 'lunch directly. It was a scrumptious lunch of sandwiches, buns, cake birthday-cake, and fruit. After lunch they began to play hide and seek*. X Nancy and Claudia ran off to hide. ? ' MH?y and Be' ty ran after t*iem crying, "Me hide too." v.Na^uidthe two little ones behind an old trunk of a tree. She then ran off to hide herself. Suddenly she. noticed one of the tree= was hollow and would make a lovely hiding-place, so she crept in. .^fWj fi" 7, 500. 1 S°f«M-of hiding, and wandered off by g^ve^. Suddently they came (o g clearing among the trees, and tbere stood a number of caravans and tents deligl| P-' — dat funny nouse," said Betty, clapping her hands in ancf dlsi %^^*st?r : W°ma* Wlth I6ng hdr ' VereSSced 5"13 ' f_ "^-*' *° *$ -I°*^ -a' from any- "^ ease '' we are lost," said Tony id ZtS'f dearS ' y°' JUS' c°°* ; 3 bite a something all aW 1,?' 7 llSd SOmelbhl S to eat, they felt better. Tony told her "-^wlw S at T ment a raSSed °id came into *^e caravan. those kS» shTsaW ° miSSeS an' a h^n "hat's «•» for she'Kad ever, had C,ared ll was the nicest b™M*y =i J^^_' JOYCE DINNISON.