LETTERS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12513, 31 July 1926, Page 16

LETTERS

Dear Fairiel, * I am telling you of a car which belongs to my brothter-in-lfiw. It is called a “Tin Lizzie” because it rattles a lot and stops before you want it to. One day he took my mother and father for a ride in his car to the raspberry garden to get some raspberries to make jam. On the way home the car stopped and refused to go for him. It was very cold for my father, because he had got a sore knee as he had had an accident a few days before. Then my brother-in-law borrowed a lantern and was just going to hold it over the benzine tank which was full of benzine . . . and had it not been for mother he would have still been flying in the air! But he could not see how it could happen. After a while He rang for a taxi to go and get them or they would have still been there. Your fairy, ELSIE. Elsie Henderson, Featlierston. Dear Fairiel, I am sorry I have not written to you before, but we have had not much time for letter-writing, as my Auntie has just got married, and my sister and I were bridesmaids, 60 I am sure you know that I have been far too excited to settle down to letter-writ-ing. First I must tell you that my grandma, whom we are staying with lives an hour out of London. I\ly mother thought it would be nice to get our bridesmaids' dresses there and also at the same time 6ee the sights. There is much more traffic than we have in New Zealand, and the huge buildings that are here and the beautiful shops and the lovely way they dress the shop windows t I really could not describe it to make arvone understand! I went on a train that they call a tube which runs under tne ground by electricity and winch goes very fast. It is quite light here until about 10 o’clock at night. I have been on the Southend pier wlnciT is one and a quarter miles Ir mg and has a dancing hall and stnus and tea-rooms, and is all lighted up at night and look? lovely from the hills. The trains are different and much more funny and go faster^ We went in a bi" building called the “Royal Exchange, and saw all tlie lovely paintings of different people. I would love to send you some nhotographs taken on < the boat, but I am afraid not by this mail. We are having awful weather for summer, and we have onlv had a few days fine since we have been here. We had glorious weather on the boat, we only had one day rough the whole trip. I will tell more news next time I write. Your loving fairy, ETHEL WOOLCOTT. Essex, England.