"A SAND PICNIC"
'' One day, Mother ■ suggested w« should go for a picnic to Titahi Bay. We packed and caught the bus just ia time.\ Mummy and I walked along the beach to find a cosy place to sit in; then \ I went for a swim and I had a lovely;. time, frolicking about in the water.' •When I came out of the sea Mummy; had picnic lunch spread out and I ate - it with a great appetite. After lunch we went for another swim and we went home, after afternoon tea." "DANCING DAWN" (B).' Hataitai.
"HAULED OVEK THE COALS." When a person is • reprimanded bjj someone in, authority it is said that he has been "hauled over th« coals." This saying probably originated as a reference' to trial by ordeal ia the bad old days. Accused peraona wer* made to walk over glowing- embers or red-hot ploughshares, their innocence or guilt being judged by the speed of their recovery.
'THE1 EAGLE." (Lord Ttnnytfn.) He clasps the crag with crooked hands. Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the aiun world.-ha (tends. The wrinkled «ea beneath him crawls, He watches from hla mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls. . round by ■ . ~ "LITTLE NK,L"' (l«).
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 10
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