AN APPRECIATION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 1 September 1909, Page 83

AN APPRECIATION.

Dear Dot, — I searched the back members of your papers, and. was rewarded with the j find- of the two Special Subject Weeks. I I thought the stories were splendid. You i asked us to say what we though!; of them, | didn't you? lam a lover of fairy lore, so naturally I liked "In the Oldest Long Ago," by Chisleu, and "Why New Zealand Has No Fairies, ' by Queen ot Dewdrops, best. I have, seen every scene that Chisleu has told us of in aer story, end, oh! how I love every one of them! I will always be grateful to Chislen for having written ' that story Jor our pleasure. " The Maori World in the Making," by Shasta, was a beautiful legend. I did enjoy " Krfkoura i a« It Was," by A Lamely Girl. Was" the last sentence of her story an invitation? If so, _ some day . I might see her, and her baautifnl Kadkoura. As lam a West Coaster, I was proud to, see three such good stories by Bine Violet, Grey Valley, and" Water Lily, but al! the stories showed asplendid effort; didn't they, Dot? Would Queen of Dewdrops, who- wrote "WBy New Zealand Has No Fairies," tell me what the Splden. kowfifcr is /-like, that adorned t&e king's ice-throne? It must have been beautiful. I enjoyed that little letter of- The Fair Maid With ' Golde- Locks, about native birds. That was a- strange little story about the weka. I didn't "know before that it killed other birds, the little cannibal. ' What an interesting letter Moogli wrote about the birds' nests; they are some of tihe sweetest little homes in the world. " I hope -this letter is not too long or uninteresting, and please may I write again, soon, for I have a- great deal to ask and to. tell, and a d«lta I would like to bring my small treasure to -the great sep. Good•bye. — Yours truly, DELTA, j [My dear Delta, it is with very great I regret that I have to tell you that the »ge limit for joining our page is twenty. When my Little Folk attain that age it "is customary, for them to send in their retiring I .letters. I have enjoyed your letter so much ' that I have treated it as I do an Old] Writer's letter, and given it a heading to itself. I can't, of couree, accopt you as a member of the D.L.F. Page, but should you write again there is no reason: why I should not use in some way what you write — DOT.]