PICTURE GALLERY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1941, Page 15

PICTURE GALLERY

"We have a room in an old shed, which is on our property, and Douglas, who is nine, and I made it gay and bright with pictures of every description. Today 'Postie' brought four cards. They came by air mail and took exactly one month and six days to reach New Zealand. My aunty, who lives in New York, sent them. My card had a pretty cottage surrounded "by snow painted^.on it."

"BUSH ELF" (11).

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Here is a Rhinoceros for you to make. Paint him. and pasta on to thin cardboard. Now cut along the thick lines, and fold along the dotted ones, so that your Rhino, will stand alone.

NIGHT. ! (Original.) The sun Is slowly sinking in.the. west And: birds are swiftly winging home to nesis. The sky is shot with scarlet and with gold. And clouds are painted there in outlines bold. The world is silent as the sun. goes down. Night envelops all 3n Her velvet gown. A soft wind blows and then the stars come out— The moon rises and casts her beams about. The town Is silvered, ev'rythlng around Is painted—the flowers,'the trees, the ground. The gentle breeze has stopped; all rustlings cease. The moon floats over all midst perfect peace. '•GREY OWL." HA! HA! The owner of a midget.car drove to a filling station and asked for a pint of benzine and two ounces of oil. "Right," said the attendant, "and would you like me to sneeze in "the tyres ?

Sent by RAY WAKBM.