MANY HAPPY DAYS.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 144, 20 June 1931, Page 18

MANY HAPPY DAYS.

"NELLY THE ELEPHANT."

"One day in the last term holidays I wont to the Zoo, and had a ride on tlio elephant. It happened that the elephant was very angry that day. The man who was ia charge of Nelly dropped his stick, and told her to pick it up. At this Nelly stamped her foot and roared as if to say 'I won't!' We also saw a monkey all by itself. When it saw me it ran under a sack and then ran out and pulled faces at me." "LITTLE GLADNESS" (9). Karori.' • • • "LOST—FAIEIEL!" "Shure, acushla, an' y'r loike th' 'Elusive Pimpernel,' thruly ye 're a fairy. Wav ay th' toimes lam afther hearin' that ye 're saited on y'r rnusliroom, —thin poof!—an ye're away, laughin' an' frolickin' wid th' clouds an' rockin' th' sunbaims to slaipe. Ye're loike th' fay ay the marshes who play around me woodland home, dancin' an' laughrn' th' while. But whin wan is afther followin' thim, poof!—an' they're away, shinin' in. th' distance, 'till at last they vanish fr'm sight." "KOEY O'MOORE." (15) . "Killarney." > "OPEN EYES." "Last week, my sister Pat and I tramped right through Happy Valley to Island Bay. The yellow gorse on the hillsides was in full bloom, and it did look lovely in what sun there was. We passed two burnt houses. One of them has been standing like that for about twelve months. I counted all cars that passed us that had the new numberplates, and there were over 100." "SWEETPEA" (17). City. .