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LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS.

Dear Dot, — Our school broke up on the 20fch ofTebruary for the harvest holidays. A concert was held about three weeks before to get money for the prizes. There were a good many prizes, and I got two. I got an interesting book entitled " The Life of Queen Victoria " as the first prize in my class, and.an inkstand as a second prize for writing. Both my brothers and my sisters got prizes, and all the scholars who did not get prizos got a lifctle book. Our teacher, Mr Struck, who is leaving Lovell's ' Flat, was presented with a marble clock. lam very sorry Mr Strack is goiDg away.— Yours truly, Agnes Andkrson (aged 9 years).

Lovell's Flat, February 28.

Dear Dot,— We are having beautiful weather in this district now. The farmers are all busy reaping, and I hear them saying that they will soon be done. I have got into the fourth book since I wrote to you last. Dear Dot, I hope you enjoyed yourself at the. races. I would have liked to have been there to see them, only it was too far for me to go ; but mother says she will take me soou to see Dunedin. — Yours truly,

Elizabeth Edith M'Cluskey (aged 11 yoars and 7 months.) Naseby, February 26. p.g, — I am sending you a little bifc of poetry :—

TUB LARK. The lark is up, I hear him sing, gee how he mounts upon the wing 1 And with a voice 60 lond and strong Ponrß forth to Heaven his trilling song. I listened to his early hymn While yet the dawning light was dim, And bent my head for very shame That from my heart no music came. Oh, shame ! to let a little bird Thus get the start and first be heard ; Come, then, and let us tune our throats

And join its song with grateful notes.

Dear Dot,— l have not any pet animals to tell you about, but we have a lovely garden with all sorts of flowers in it. lam learning dancing, music, painting, and singing. I like them all very much. I go to school and am in the Sixth Standard. I have no brothers nor sisters, to tell you about. I had a sister once, bat she died of diphtheria. They are having the Bhooting match for the championship in Oamaru this time, and mamma and I went up in the train to the racecourse to see them.— Yours truly, Mabel (aged 11J years). Oatnarn, February 29. Dear Dot,— l like reading the little folks' letters in the Witness very much. I have a big doll. Will you please give me a name for it ? I got it from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. I have three sisters and two brothers. Their names are Rhoda, Nellie, May, Hugh, and Willie.— Yours truly, Lilly Pascot (sged 10 yeara). Herbert, March 2. [As the doll came at Christmas time, I think Christy would be a nice name for it. — Dot.]

Dkar, Dot, — It is a long time since I wrote to you, but I hope you will forgive me for not writing sooner. I feel so sorry for that poor young .wan. who so nobly lost bis life that I fee.

I can write about nothing else. I have written a few lines about him, and as they are the first I have written I hepe you will like them. I must nob write any more this time, but will write a nice letter next time.— Yours truly, Polly.

March 2.

[Polly sends me a copy of the lines she has written on poor M'Cutcheon's gallant sacrifice. They are very credifcable indeed for a little girl, and display a depth of thought worthy of encouragement. — Dot.]

Dear Dot,— l live at Waikaia. I go to school, and am in the Third Standard. I have got a cat, aud it had four kittens. We drowned two of them and gave away the other. We have got a cow called Rose, and she has a little white calf called Pansy. Mamma milks the cow every morning, and she gets a bucket of milk. I have one sister and four brothers. Mamma has a beautiful flower garden, some of the flowers in it are cockscombs, dahlias, balsam, hollyhocks, French honeysuckle, geraniums, carnations, fuchsia, and 47 different colours of pansies. — Yours truly,

•Ethbii Lacey (aged 9 years).

Waikaia, February 27.

[The garden must indeed be a veritable pleasure ground with such an assortment of lovely flowers. Forty-seven different varieties ot pansies ! They alone would be worth walking miles to see. — Dot.]

B. M. J. — Many thanks for tale, which will appear in due course. lam happy to hear of the children's contiuued interest in the column.— Dot.

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Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 35

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LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS. Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 35

LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS. Otago Witness, Issue 1894, 9 March 1888, Page 35

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