MY LEISURE
Dear Anno Shirley,—During my leisure I spend my time as a naturalist. Of course 1 have a garden and a fernery. After rambling in the bush I can arrange my collections in a place where they grow, while all the time I can feast my eyes on their beauty. Also I collect and press many fern leaves, the plants of which are either too delicate to remove or are too firmly planted for me to be able to procure them.
Such a thing as a little rivulet with its banks covered with mosses and ferns can only be looked upon, but the memory lingers for ever. I love the birds, too; flitting about among the trees and ferns, they would cheer the hearts of the gloomiest.—With love from Jean Otto (15).
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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133MY LEISURE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23109, 6 August 1938, Page 8 (Supplement)
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