ROBIN'S EASTER EGG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21141, 26 March 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

ROBIN'S EASTER EGG.

" What a lovely Easter egg, Robin," cried Shirley, admiringly, as her playmate held up a large Easter egg adorned with a bright red ribbon. " Yes, Uncle Ben gave it to me 'cause I helped Jiim pick apples yesterday afternoon in the orchard. I gave Uncle Ben and mummy and daddy some and saved these for you and I. Would you like to go down by the willow beside the stream, Shirley, and we could eat them there?" Shirley agreed and soma time later found the two children sailing paper boats in the little stream and munching delicious sweets.

By OLIVE HYDE, D.M.8.G., aged 18, Ruilii Street, Rotorua

" How kind of them ! I know," cried Moonbeam, " let's make one half into a boat and the other half into a coach. We could harness a mouse to it with that pretty red ribbon." So while some of the fairies launched their new boat the others went to look for Sticky the little grey mouse, who lived in a field not far away. They called him Sticky because while he was once raiding a cupboard hj* fell into a pot of honey and the result was that the fairies had to help him clean if all off of his furry coat, quite a long process. Thus he gained the nickname of Sticky. He was just as excited as the fairin3 themselves when he heard what they had found. Why, perhaps he was the first mouse who ever had drawn an Easter egg coach. They harnessed him to it