IN BOOKLAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 4 (Supplement)

IN BOOKLAND.

'•*!, * s mi MOUNT PIRONGIA., • • % - ■ . J ; . : ; 1 .■ ■: . j Kvery boy and girl v. ho lives wiUrtn siiht of the: hills and valleys of the \VwUto ife familial- with the mighty, busheiad glopiia of Mount Pirongs&i All should read th o following beautiful .wrdpicttirb of this mgged i./nieh in olden days was the stfotßohtd of a Fierce and warlike tribe of ®?iaor,is. " The first thing to catefe &V.childish eyog was the great balk of jrirttigw* Sometimes he was close at haou, at others ho was far off arid H lortftday'*rMHHH Kdi JMddm, in the early morning, <3t on wel s wintry days* he drew clotid atld wist fttoithd hiffl aft «* mailtle . . and then all the world became a place unknown and strange, fovei-y hour he changed. : ■: In. the «6*ii JJ&k g«&8 and * greens predominated; as fl4y aavanced,' tho vanished. and the (treys deepened into bin®) into thunderous purples arid blacks; and so, aga'nst a background of golden glory > whero the sun sank into the osean, he passed into the night, ihaking of himself a starless cone in the heavens. . " From iitfii he was always majestic arid stertti calling on the heart of the beholder for strength and courage and endurance; but I have also seen him frorn afar, tetidei 4 as a clotia arid blue as a sapphire, beckoning his own back to their allegiance " The Greenstone "Dooi*,'* by Willigm Satehell. ,,a THE MAYPOLE. "Spring decked the maypole with young blossoms and fresh green boughs; summer brought rose! of the deepest blush, and the petfacted foliage of tfts# f<spe§fc| atittimh enriched it with that red and yellow gorgeousness which convert« each wildwood leaf into a painted flower; and winter silvered it with sleet and hung it With icicles."—Nathaniel Hawthorne. (Sent by Ena May Upton, Schoolhouse, Waikino)