ONE WINTER NIGHT

Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 20

ONE WINTER NIGHT

(Part n of a Story by "Lonesome," 15, City.*

"He's gone," came the sour tones of the burly brute who was the other's accomplice. ■ ■; "You couldn't have knocked him hard enough," the- leader answered' grimly. "He must have pulled-himself into'the boat and-pushed off. He; won t go far though. With that bang on the head he'll probably fall in and no one will know anything about it." * v. "Looks suspicious to me," the big man's face was uneasy, "All the lights on in the house but nobody there and now the boy gone" '■The girl's probably scared stiff, hiding somewhere," the leader • Snoke • hw^^ £ W> °°™ ™ *Wye got to get those paPers even «we have to blow the Place up» The two men:moved off and Don breathed again; < . The speedboat sped down the river with the exhausted. Peeev ' f our policemen, and a doctor aboard it. "ausiea feggy, ~ tour trpn3!£f y> h^f yi K Peggy kept Urging> though the speed of the boat4a S At that moment the speedboat drew alongside the -iettv nnri +^^ work^young'man'' PlUCky "^ haVe 6arned a good holid^ *« this night's bee«*le to put my invention onS? market." ' I £h°Uld ?"" haVe good^ahe^anfday!" Pr°^" C°nClUded Peggy' "that> b«oln^ 1. » City. Sent by LONESOME (15);

' ; TREES. Green trees and greying trees, Rustling trees and swaying trees Growirig up so high. . . . Broad trees and slender trees, Hardy trees and tender trees, ■ To shelter you and I; Great, big spreading kauri trees, Lovely mountain cabbage trees, Where the pigeons fly; Milk trees and pepper trees, .. Ti-trees and broom trees, ; • Pink and white and shy; '» ' ? Twining binding rata trees, ': And old creaking maire trees, They say, that never die; Red pines, white • pines, Black pines, and silver pines, :- Through the south winds sigh. . . j All of these are our trees, ' , ■ Sober trees and gay, , = "Then who will come and plant a tree ' With me on Arbor Day?" —WILL. G. TOLLEY. i