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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 57, 8 March 1930, Page 18

Own Our Verse-Maker.

"SUMMER." Summer will awaken clown t>y the sea; Summer, a fairy full of glee. She is creeping out of her downy bed; She shakes and raises her sleepy head From her downy pillow white; And brings with her the golden sun, And chases the clouds that fleetly run. Her's is the fun that's "only just begun. : "ROSE QUEEN." Palmerston. North. <« ONE SCENE OF BEAUTY." "One Sunday I went to Wainui by car.' Prom the foot of the Wainui Hill to the top and,from the top right down the-Other side was.one scene of beauty. The deep valley on one side, the high cliff on the other../ Oaco on lovel ground again we passed ricli pastures of,-grazing sheep,- who after one look,-full of astonishment and nervousness, would take: to their heels one after another; ; "Where wo- picnicked, !v/o -were quite close -totbc river, but it was too cold, to bathe.: ; A mob of sheep were .coming quite l^ear us, peering and pushing, wondering who indeed wore these strange, two-legged mortals. Letting" down a "billy on a long piece of string, in to the river, to get water for tea, was great fun. "There were hosts of "water lilies in sheltered parts of the "river. .''. " .- .;■..'"'.'; ."GOLDILOCKS," Island Bay. ;..-;.. . . "ON. THE ROAD: . . ." "I'have been away to Marton for a week, and;l motored up with mother eird dad, and I had a lovely time. When I we had' gone just a f e.w miles;. from Pa^lsakanki on the road there: were abbtif' 100 bulls, so we had to pull up, but tho cattle dogs soon separated them 30 that we could get' through. The dogs are well trained, aren't they?" j ■■• •■ . f"PEG.O';MY:HEART." ! City. "BACK FROM ROTOKXTA." "Bot.orua, filia you with a mysterious i'eeliug.- ihe- great geysers and hot springs runib'io an>-shako tho ground, | and tho boiling mud is like a series of bulging eyes." ......' ■ •:-: .':..: "sergeant dan." Lower Hutt. ; "IT HAD LONG LEGS." li'S!hoiithev evening we wont for a drive, aa'd. as ivp wero going along, aoaie-th-3-ag ran' out of the side of the .■oa.;l sod .kept in the.inii'ldlo i'pr a while.. Thau it :'au to "!.!io othar' side, and was I soon lc*t to sight, Jimmy said it was a liars, and I noticed it had long logs. . ." "TABBY CAT." . ..Citj;.—— •■- : :