LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLK .

Otago Witness, Issue 1808, 16 July 1886, Page 35

LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLK .

•As long as ever there are any little folks on the face of the earth, they will be fond of having stories told them. The grownup people have all the rest of the paper to themselves, full of news from all parts of the world, and a great deal of other interesting reading ; but this one little corner is for the children expressly— their story, their poetry, their letters— and Dot will never find any matter that interests the children too trivial to attend to, and hopes be-fore long to be regarded as their friend. Children take as much interest in the affairs of one another as grown-up people do, and always like to hear what one another are doiug, so here is a little letter Dot received this /^eek : — ► Dear Dot, — We hal a fine time one day last week. We had a holiday from school, and my uncle took my cousins and me out on the harbour in a boat, to a place where there were a lot of shells. Auntie wanted some shells for the garden walk. We gathered two sack's full, and then got into the boat again to go home ; but going home we got stuck in the mud. My cousius w°re very frightened and began to cry, bufc uncle threw a bag of the shells overboard, which lightened the boat, and we got off safely. — Yours truly,