BIRD PAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 50, 27 August 1938, Page 20

BIRD PAGE

Little People: If you wish to find the Fairy Ring tonight you must first find the Street of the Singing Birds;. It does not run through any Eastern town, where houses huddle in the sun-warmed dust and bright feathers flash between wicker bars. Our Street of the Singing Birds is an arched aisle of leaf and- shade, where Spring.is beginningto work her magic. Here the wattle tree is a shower of gold, cherrytree buds will soon break inta a foam of blossom, the silver catkins of the pussy-willow glisten ais they cling to the slender boughs. Below, from the earth, the flame flowers are leaping . . . red and purple anemones .... yellow daffodils. The Street of the Singing Birds touches bushland and country field, hilltop arid garden, wherever there are trees akd flowers. Our thoughts tonight are for all the feathered ones, the rare ones of the mountain and forest deeps, the green-breasted pigeons of the city and that cheeky, raggle-taggle sparrow. Letterbox Elf is longing to tell you the results of the painting competition for junior Ring People. Here are the names of the four young artists who painted the best pictures: — "Sweet Agnes' 1 (9), Lorna Higgie (11), "Princess Poppy" (9), and "The White Rabbit." Four parcels for Postie to carry to these lucky ones! Happy holidays! FAIRIEL.