Ngaire Celebrates Christmas

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 152, 24 December 1932, Page 8

Ngaire Celebrates Christmas

(Original, by "Moonshine Fairy," aged 10, of Karori.)

NGAIRE'S birthday was on the 24th of December! Just the day before Christmas,.-.and, Xgairewas feeling very excited as it -to. real gardening set,; and she' ™*£n^# J^^ff. T**? ■■**?:.■*. When morning dawned, Lord Sun found a very impatient lit Op -ST™"™ awaiting him. "You've come at last» she cried PwitpTiHr Ilen, r; PP c presents, among which there was a book of excitW %%* Sh« °P? ne* *« tented herself with reading for a little while butsat i,«t rt r th. en. contoo great to see if the-fairies had left a^enL/Lt In VshfrT^Mle she was tearing over the lawn, her long fair hair streaming behind her W^theVe^ n^coS^S\K a atr y°'Sp^ ■.sis -^ i^w?^ :cried. "I must show it to mummy. ' ">vei>> shs ;■•; As she. danced merrily along, the cotton-reel, which she had 'doddp^ into her pocket, came unwound again. A thought made her go exactly th« same way too, so that when•= her- mother wanted to know where' snJ had fpnnd it, they w^uld follow.the string again • had ■i«i' U that ni°? Pr^ e°f? keP* arriving, aU not to be opened tiU CEristmas Day, so that ;when bedtime ca me she was almost wUd with exeitemeEt .Ngaiw. fell asleep, and Sodn : began to dream. She dreamt that therer^wa. ■S,fffif ?^ 1? chW' theß a thud ™ « someone had lanaedoa the_ hearth. .The thud woke her up, and she found her barf T«n! rapgly.; For there -sb^ ab^ut it, the do"* waT Sy - eXSf

_ Next mjnute the figure of a man who looked remarkably like Santi der what that very large thing heleft was?" Shi fell asleep woadS and when she nest awoke it was about 6 o'clock and the sun wal iust nS ing so she thought. The stocking, which was bulging full, "C T^ n g on the bed and as. JTgaire grabbed fpr it, lt narrowly esclped the floor. *Li£e3£ it didn't, and so she looked at everything without further mishaps The thing at the vend of the bed proved to be a lovely big doll's house :,.,Soon ; breakfast_arrived, and after that the delightful Christmassy sensatipn. of openmg.the presents. When the Mast thing had been - opened mother produced a_. letter from granny, asking them to her house for their Christmas^ dinner. Ngajxe..soon,had her fur coat and hat on, and ther started off. In about half ,an hour they reached granny's, where Pam and Graeie^O'Bnen, Ngaire's cousins, came to meet them. It was a fine afternoon, but a keen south breeze was blowing. After a dinner of Christmas pudding they, all;.wfent, into T the garden, where they picked strawberries! - At las^trW-time foriNgarre to go home, so she Wssea Pam, Gracie, granny, and : Auntie. Nan ana home she went. She found tiny stockings, full of <t.ny, things in the doll's house, and wondered whom^» questioned'Dad^ he just ked k—