THE SMILE CASTLE MAIL-BAG

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 16 November 1929, Page 18

THE SMILE CASTLE MAIL-BAG

Koipoiairangai. Dear Smile Queen, —We have had a lady visitor staying with us for a week. She came from. Masterton, so >sh© enjoyed her stay with us. We took her over the farm and 1 showed her .ail the .animals. Now she is going away I will miss her. I will sendf a. piece of poetry as soon as I have time to write it out. We will soon be having lettuce out of our garden. The train I go to school on ha,s been, late this last week. I am going to bed now, so I will close with love to you and all the Smiles. I remain .your loving Smile. .Eileen Jarrett.

(I am quite sure your visitor would enjoy staying on the farm, Eileen. I shall look forward to .receiving your poetry. Love. —S.Q.)

Manaia.. Dear Smile Queen, —It is quite a while since I last wrote. I .hope you and all the Smiles are quite well. First I must thank you very milch for that lovely birthday card you sent me, Smile Queen. We will be soon starting our holidays now, just about .another month to go to school. A couple of Sundays ago we went for a, picnic fix a bush near Eltham. It was a beautiful place, and there was a river running right through the bush. It was too cold for a. swim, so I just had a; paddle, and got such a lovely bunch of wild daisies. I will try and make something for the gift cupboard. AVhen does it close, Smile Queen? I will close now. with lots of love to you and the Smiles. Your loving Smile, Note Franklin. (I am glad you liked the card. Noia. The giiit- cupboard will be open for a few weeks yet, but it must be closed in time to allow us to send out to the sick children Indore Xmas. Love. S.Q.)

Manaia lid. Deal’ Smile Queen, —I have been in becl. We have eleven chickens. I caught a mother starling in our letter box the other day. My little _ brother has been in Craigholm hospital for six weeks with 'pneumonia, .and I hope we can have him home .soon. I have joined the Oubs now, and we have goodl fun at Cubs. My father will soon bo making hay.. We have a- paddock of lucerne nearly ready. I like hay-mak-ing time very much. and: we have rides on the loads of hay. Love from Douglas Cl ague.

(I am sorry to hear that you have been sick. Douglas, and, that your little brother has been ilil so long. Ido hope you will soon have him home. I am glad to hear you have joined the Cubs. A boy who can get so much news into a little letter should make a good and observant Scout. Love. —S.Q.)

Rowan. Dear Smile Queen,—As I have just arrived home from school for my dinner, I thought I would 1 write you a, few lines. It has been raining all day here to-day and it was a -pity, because it will spoil all the fun we would be having with the crackers and fireworks. We had good luck with our bantam chickens. We got fifteen out of fifteen eggs. I am reading a hook Called' “Things will take a Turn.” It is a, nice book. Have you read it. Smile Queen ? Our gardens are beginning to look nice now with the vegetables shooting up through the soil, and the flowers ■aire out. T think this is all for now. I remain, your loving Smile, Norah Jackson. (No, I have not read that hook, Norah. but I am glad to see you like reading. How lucky you were with the chickens. Love. —S.Q.) Manaia. Dear Smile Queen,—T am writing this letter to you to-night, as I have time; before going to bed. It has been raining here almost all clav. so it will do the garden good. The tomato plants my.sister had given to her arc doing vei’v well. We had! a batch of chickens out last week, and some more coming out now. I think they are pretty little things when, they are small, don’t you, Smile Queen? We are having our passing exam. school now, but we may not be finished for a few weeks. Our church bazaar is on next week, so I n-m looking forward to going. I have had a guess on a dainty little doll and a sewing machine. There arc a lot of things I would like, to have a guess cm, but I can’t. This will be all now. Smile Queen, as I have a friend to write to, so I wiHI close with, love to vou and all the Smiles, from Gladys Wallace.

(So glad to hear from yon again, Gladys. I wish you heaps of luolc at the bazaar. Yes. indeed, I do admire newly-hatched chicks. Love. —-S.Q.)

Meremere. Dear Smile Queen., —Just a few lines to see lw»w you are getting on at the Castle Yesterday 1 heaped Mum to wash the clothes and also made some coeoanut buns, rusks and pikelets. It lias lxeen raining here the last two or three days, and it has done the gardens good. My little brother, who is going in for .the mangold crops this year, lhas his crop worked up very nicelv, and a lot'of his mangolds are up. ' I don’t think I wild be going away for my Christmas holidays, as there will l>e too much work to be done then. Mum and Dad are planting some more garden seeds. W e have a. lot up. I will close now. Love from Dora f. M. Ooltart.

(You must .be quite a good “cook” now, Doi:a.. This rain will be good l for your garden. I hope your brother dees well in the competition. Love. — S.Q.)

Mere mere. Dear Smile Queen, —It is a terribly windy day to-day ana rather cold. too. Qur vegetable garden is coming on well now that we have had a few wet days. Mum and Dad are out weeding the parsnips. My sister has been outside and picked a big bunch of buttercups and they look so nice l . Our kale is up now and it won’t be long before it is a couple of inches high. Daff, our Jamb, gets out of the paddock sometimes and we have to chase her all over the place to get her in. As there is no more news T will close. Love from Queeuie Ooltart. (Glad, to hear from you again, Queenie. I hope the lamb does not damage the garden when she escapes te that. Love.—S.Q.)