ODE FOR THE D.L.F. BAYS AT DUNEDIN AND INVERCARGILL WINTER SHOWS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 76

ODE FOR THE D.L.F. BAYS AT DUNEDIN AND INVERCARGILL WINTER SHOWS.

Dear Dot. — There is a coincidence connected with your l-equest for an ode. Recently, in conversation with T. D. A., Tangles, Zealia, and Otima, they informed me of tbe engagement of a prominent D.L.F., who shall be nameless. Said I : " I'll have to write a wedding ode for ber," and instantly I got four more orders. Then my Witness came to hand conveying your request, and that made six ; and I intend writing the sixth first. I have rot seen. The Fly yet, but feel sure of his co-operation. You may therefore count upon your rpque e t being granted with pleasure. There is a, jJoint, however, to be marked well by D.L.F. It is this: The ode is intended to be comprehensive of the aspirations of all D.L.F. , north and south; so it becomes an mdividue.l responsibility for each member of tbo page to be represented in th« bay. It would never do to have a comprehen- ' sive ode and an incomplete exhibit — would it, dear Dot? Therefore, all D.L.F., please take note, and obey — with great alacrity, — Ever surely yours, BLONDEL. [I hope to be able to get BlondeVs ode set to music with a view to its being sung at the social, as well as occupying a place in tbe bays. I trust L.F. will consider carefully Blondel's remarks, and endeavour to be represented in some form, however trifling, at the two bays.— DOT.]