Extracts from Letters . . .

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 3

Extracts from Letters . . .

Wo have a little pet lamb named Hill. lie i. Hazels pet. and Dad got him from our island The river runs creek ruifs out of the river on the other side, and it joins a good way down. The lamb was ns skinny as a rake when he first came to us. We have another calf a red and white one whose mother was a new cow which we ' ad. Our garden is looking lovely with the poppies, snowdrops, daffodils, marigolds, forget-me-nots, anemones, Christmas roses and many other flowers—Phyllis Arnold, Motupiko. On fine*dnvs t like to help Dad feed the cows, and 1 also like looking for birds’ nests. We have found fifteen eggs this year, but we don't take them all. We have fifteen calves and one of them is mv pet. We have an old cow called Crocus, and sometimes I sit on her back. Once she stood up and I slipped on to her horns. I have a school garden this year, and I will be putting some plants in to-morrow if it is net too wet. I shall be glad when Summer is here, when I can go swimming. We have a raft and sail round on the creek in summer, and have two or three lines and one or two spears j with which we catch eels. —Geoffrey Fawcett, R.M.D. Wakefield. Aren't you glad that Spring is here. Alice? I have lots of lettuce plants in my garden and I'll spank White Rabbit if he tries to eat them. We have plenty of lambs on the hill and several calves. Our pony is very lame at present, and we haven’t been able to ride him for some time. Last Sunday we went down to the beach and Daddy found a we baby penguin. It's mother I was in the nest too. We have found La lot of birds’ nests lately. —Pamela Robertson, Wainui. Takaka. Y Y Y Y 1 am five, and I go to school now, but at present Daddy has the measles, so I have to stav at homo. I know where there arc four birds’ nests that t can look at. We have two pet lambs. Anne Brereton (5 years', Ngatimoti. Y Y Y Y At home we have a pet lamb called Jennifer, and two little kittens. We did have four, but two of them died. My little brother, Desmond, is three now. Most of the snow has gone from ihe mountains, so we will soon be able to go swimming again. Don't the gardens and the fruit trees look lovely with their Spring blooms? I often see the tuis in the branches of our peach trees, getting the nectar out of the flowers My sister Jessie is writing a poem called Spring, for the Page. Elsie Fenemor (12 years), Tapawera. Y Y Y Y R has been snowing round the hills to-day, and I have had my hair cut, so it is very cold round my neck. The buttercups are out, and there are a lot under the kowhai trees. When you go looking tor buttercups, you pick up kowhai flowers instead. Now the birds are building nests, we find lots of eggs and babies. The ranunculi and is flowering lam having whitebait for tea, and 1 love it .100. My bantam does not lay now. Theo. Biggs, Murchison. Y Y Y Y There are a few yellow flowers on our kowhai tree. I saw them as I passed the tree this morning when I was riding Nancy, our horse. Dad and Alan and 1 were going round the sheep. One of our plum trees has tiny sour plums on .t. —Barbara Kerr, East Takaka.