Our Letter Box

Maoriland Worker, Volume 11, Issue 475, 21 April 1920, Page 7

Our Letter Box

Hastings. Dear Aunt Leila,—Thanks very much for the book called "The Potters," for the, story was beautiful. I am very porry for not thanking you before, but I had tho "flu" and can tell you it was not very nice, because I had to stay in bed and eat nothing. In July I will be twelve. -My brother, whose age is sixteen, has gone to the Grange for the day, and Mum and I are left at. home by ourselves, so we are going round to Grannie's to stop. lam in Standard V. at school now. When I first wrote to you I sent 2/6 for music and words of "The Red Flag," and a Sunbeam card, and I have not received them yet. Good Thoughts to all the world. —Your loving Sunbeam, PHYLLIS. [I am sorry, Sunbeam, that your card and music were overlooked. They ■have now been forwarded.—Aunt Leila.] Kanieri. Dear Uncle Ted,—l wish to thank Uncle Robbie through our Corner for the story of the little dog Bobbie. The story was a very impressive one. When reading it, the memory of our own dear little dog, Spider, and his loss came home with full force. If Uncle Robbie will give his address somewhere in our Corner. I will send him a photo of our. dptir little lost friend. I also wish to say a few words to the grown-up Sunbeam of Winslow who was coming to the Coast in a motor car with a little dog in it. Though not intentionally, that Sunbeam played us a prank. When reading his piece, ,my heart began to dance, but when I saw the date of his coming it fell flat again. We did not get the paper till a week after the date of his leaving home, and even then, for a week after, we kept on the look-out for the little motor, but it never came. Had the Sunbeam sent in his piece a week earlier we surely would have caught him, yes, and had a fairly good time. Gqod Thoughts, my dear Uncle.—From your loving niece, JESS.IE. Napier. Dear Aunt Leila and Uncle Ted, —I suppose you will be thinking I have forgotten you. Thanks very much for the book you sent mc. I was away at Christchurch when the book arrived- home. I have read -it right through. The weather up here is fine. News up here is very scarce. I must close now as it is getting late. Love to all Sunbeams.—Your loving niece, CLARICE. Waikino. Dear Uncle Ted,—Just a few lines to tell you how I like the place. My father is in bad health; he is station : master. lam glad to hear of you. I suppose you will answer my letter. Igo to school. lam in Standard I. My sister is in Primer 3, and my little sister is in Primer 2. I can swim a bit. I live in Waikino. My name is Mervyn Harris. In Waikino we have the battery, you can see the gold in the stones. Good-bye, I send Good Thoughts at Nine. From Sunbeam' MERVYN.