LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1890, 10 February 1888, Page 35

LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS.

Dear Dot,— lt is a long time since I wrote to you. I have not been in school for a month, with, the whoopingcough, but I am getting better now. We are to have a month's holidays, commencing on Monday, and that will make two months' of holidays for me, and I think that too much, because I like school very well. Now, dear Dot, I must tell yon about a nice silver pin for a tie that 1 got from my uncle in Scotland. He also sent a brooch for my Bister, and we think it very nice of him to have sent us Christmas presents. He sends us cards every Christmas.— Yours truly, John M'Guecjor. Enfield, January 29. Deah Dot,— Our holidays are all over now, and we have started school again. We had Bishop Morau here on the 22nd, and he administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to those who were prepared for it. There were about 38 confirmed. They were not all school children, some of them being young men and women. I like Bishop Moran very much. He preached nice sermons in the morning and evening. The weather is very wet up here at present. Dear- Dot, I wish I could send you some nice fruit. Mother is busy making jam. Ido not like pulling the fruit— l like eating it much better.— Yours truly, Elizabeth Edith M'Clusket (aged 10 years and 7 months), Naseby, January 29.

Deab Dot,— l like to read the little folks' letters in the Witness. I have a doll. Please give me a nice name for it. I go to school, and have two miles to walk every morning and afternoon. I am sometimes very tired. We have a nico teacher. Her name is Miss Sheeny. I like b«t very much. She gives us lollies. lam in Second Standard at school.— Yours truly, Ellen B. M'Cluskey (aged 9 years and 3 months). Naseby, January 29. Dear Dot,— lt is a long time since I have Written to you. I have passed the First Standard, and am now in the second. "We had a fortnight's holidays at Christmas. My father caught seven hawks in the trap to-day. They were taking away cur chickens. My brother *reddy has a black lamb. I read the little folks' letters in the Witness every week. We have some little ducks and a lot of lambs. I wrote to you last week, but I missed the mail, which cnly comes here once a week. — Yours truly, Samuel Hblm (aged 8 years). Grove Bush, January 29.

Deah Dot,~l am going to tell you about my Whefa claim. I see his name when it is mentio €d in the "Witness is spelt Fox, but it should w Cox, I v?as up at the claim on Friday, the Wb, ana washed a $& of dirt and got a nugget

of gold weighing 1-^oz, together with a few small pieces.— Yours truly, Eva Cox (aged 9 years) Macetown, January 30. Dear Dot,— l am s& school every day, and I like it very much. I like my teacher sometimes. But I have a long way to go to school— over two miles. I have got a pretty little pup now. Would you please give a name for it ? It is a pretty little thing. I have got 12 little ducks, and they are getting on nicely; and 1 have also a lot of little chickens, but the hawks seem to be very fond of them. I would like very much to live in Dunedin, then I would write to you every day —Yours truly, Kate B. Monagan. February 2.