BLOTTING PAPER.
The blotting-paper, soft and white. Is put where grown-up people write, And I am very sad to think I am too young to write in ink; For grown-ups never .seen to seeHow lovely inky things can be ; They scribble with a busy frown, Then blot their letters upside down ; While I, .if 1 could- have a pen, Would draw the clearest little men, And spiders’ webs, and horrid skulls, And steaming shins with great black hulls. And elephants, and sporting whales, And devils with enormous tails. (For blotting-paper spreads, you see, \ml swells things out most beautifully), But mummy only says, “I think You are too young to play with ini, ”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 July 1926, Page 18
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113BLOTTING PAPER. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 31 July 1926, Page 18
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