Our Own Verse-Maker.

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 94, 18 October 1930, Page 20

Our Own Verse-Maker.

' A CHILD TO A DEAD KITTEN. (Original.) You're as stiff and cole! as a stone, i Little cat, ' They-have throw-ii you. out all alone,. ! Little., cat,- " I'm stroking your fur, y , But now you don:t purr, Nor hump up -liywh.erc. Little cat. Lie' still; dowu in the ground, .Little cat, While -I tuck the green grass around, ■ - Little eat, '."Tliere- are tears in my eyes .- 'Cos I 'most always' cries -..- When a- pussy-eat dies. Little cat* "TORTELLIXI DI JIELE" (I'D. Italy.' . . ■ .*... * * '"'■ >; y>ySPRING. :.: (Original.) Spring is;-cominc, Spring is coming, Can't yoU hear the bees aliuramlng? The flowers all now lift tlieir Jieads From the-ground out of their beds. Tho butterflies all flit around, Some here, some there, some; ou the ground. The. sun will soon he shining bright. Hairing daytime long and light. "RIRO-RiltO" (11). ■•• -K.iburn.-'-.' ■ o _ * • : ..''.'--,.-.j.'oUsE''D" FROM DREAMLAND. (Original.) ' Underneath a mushroom, Curled up •in a ball, yl/ies'fa little hedgehog Iv a stately hall. ■"■'•■ ■ Prickly is his body, ' Dainty are' his toes. .Oh! but what has happened? . __ leaf fell on his nose! 'Rousing Mm from Dreamland, Where he was nt play, - l"or, as I.,was looking He scampered far away. ■ -, "EMILY OF XEW MOON" (12). 'Northland: •' f ' ■ ■■:■ ~-/7\ " I ;