LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1950, 4 April 1889, Page 35

LETTERS FROM LITTLE FOLKS.

Dbab DoT,—ln my last letter I Baid I would tell you about my garden and the nice flowers that grow in it. There are a great many, but I cannot spell their names. I like to water them and see them grow ; but, dear Dot, you have seen many nice gardens, and know all about them. There was one pretty flower I once had, and I am going to tell you about it. I planted it on the day my little sister was born, and it grew so lovely ; but one morning when I went to see it, its head was drooping, and ia a few days it died. About a week after ray little sister grew sick, and her rosy lips and cheeks turned, oh ! so white. By and bye she went to sleep and I could not waken her. I saw mamma crying, and I asked her why she was so sorry. She told me that my little sister would not wake again, for the angels had come in the night time when I was asleep and taken her away. And always when I look at the place where my pretty flower grew I think of the sister I once had, and when mamma sees the tears in my eyes she tells me to cry no more, for I shall meet my dear sister again in a garden where the flowers never die.— Yours truly, Elizabeth WiiiSON. Ida Valley, March 28. Dbab Dot,-— We have a new schoolmaster named Mr Neill, whom I like very much. When the school began this year, Mr Davidson taught us for a month till Mr Neill could come down from Blue Spur. I have been reading a very nice book called " Sunny Days " ; or, " A Month at Great Sfcowe," and have enjoyed it very much.— Yonrs truly, Chbistina Loudon (aged 11 years). Walton Park, March 25. Deae Dot,— l live at Mountjoy Farm. have over two miles to walk to school. We haye four weeks' holidays now. I was at Dunedin a few weeks before Christmas, and enjoyed myself very much. We were at the museum," and saw lots of pretty birds and things. I saw the Witness office, but I was nob in it. We were eight days away. I have four sisters and three brothers. Their names are Mary, Sarah, Lizzie, Mabel f Robert, Samuel, and John.— Yours truly, - Aknih WhiTß. Mountjoy, March 26. Dbab Dot,— l go to the Kakanui school, and am in the Second Standard. We have had five weeks' harvest holidays. I have five sisters and two brothers, and six of us go to school. We have a pet lamb named Bunty t and two <

cats, one is black and white and the other is a tortoiseshell ; will- you please give me names for them.— Yours truly, Lizzie Robertson (aged 9 years). Valleyfield, Maheno, March 25. [Call them Tib and Brin— the latter short for brindle, for the tortoiseshell. — Dot]. Dear Dot,— The weather ia at present very wet and cold. We have four weeks' harvest holidays now. We have 12 kittens and six cats. The crops round about here are nearly all cut now. We have a sow with IS little pigs. — Yours truly, Lizzie Whith. Mountjoy, March 26. Towsbb. — Your poetry is about as bad as your brother. Try again.