DOT’S LITTLE FOLK.

Otago Witness, Issue 3512, 5 July 1921, Page 56

DOT’S LITTLE FOLK.

Dot Invite* abort lev ters from her young friends throughout the of interest to thesnsclvee. the result of t the animal world, de--1 aoripuons of anythin* they are interested in. of the district In whloh they lire, of their achool and home life, holiday trips, Ao. The letters are to he written by the little folk themselves, and addressed -'Dot, oare of Kditor Witness." Dot’s Little Folk’s Badge with pin, lor use as brooch, obtainable on application to Dot- Price. Ss 6d, in stamps or postal notes. Auto. Cards are obtainable from Dot, Witness Office, Dunedin. Price, 9d for 25.

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LETTERS FROM THE LSTTLS FOLK.

Motto: —W« write for the benefit of others, not for rurselvee. Ka letter to co&uun mere than 350 word* Dear Dot,— My music teacher lias married. We have a dog called Glen, and he like to splash about in the sea and swim m the river. We have been playing at school “fox and hounds.’’ All the girls go aa-.y, and the boys chase us. On calm eaj-s we play basketball. I saw the H.M.S. Gnatham. Love to Ave Maria. Wanaka Lass, Maid of the Lakes, To Daddy s Ldte Giri, and all the L.F., not forgetting youiseit. Yours truly, POSTMAN’S NIECE. Dear Dot,— My birthday was during the winter holidays. lam 12 now, and am in the Sixth Standard. I have three bro.hms and two sisters. We live in the country, and are 3i miles from the school. Me have turned out live cows, and have one still milking. We have a big fat white pig ready for killing. I did not go to see the ~how, but my mother, father, and sister went m. On Wednesday while at school we saw two aeroplanes. Love to Mud Lark, Sunburst, The Bell-bird, Buttercup, and yourself.— Yours truly, BROWNIE BEAVER. [You are very welcome to join us, dear. DOT.] , Dear Dot. —I am seven years old. Mother s Pet and I are at home from school with the Influenza, and we are playing shop to-day. I was on the H.M.S. Chatham, and uncle sat me up on one of the big guns. Love to ad the D.L.F., not forgetting yourself.—Yours UUIy ’ CHARLIE CHAPLIN. I hope you are better again, Charlie. — DOT.]. Deaf Dot, —I am having a holiday fiom school. lam sick, and it is so wet out of doors. I was in Dunedin for the Show. Love to all the D.L.E., not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, MOTHER’S PET. Dear Dot, —We are experiencing some very cold weather just now, but it is what we should exped** at this time- of the year. Do you skate, Dot ? Ido not, but I would like to learn. When I was away for my holidays I met Lady Betsy. I am very fond of reading. At present I am reading “Vinegar Hill,” and it is very interesting. Love to all the D.L.E., not forgetting your own dear self. —Yours truly, WEDDING BELLS (Oamaru). [Ninepenco for twenty-five.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —At. your request I am translating into the English tongue ITn Chevalier D’Armour’s question. By the way what has happened to two little native correspondents ? Ido hope that we will hear from them again scon. Now that I have mastered the Maori language, I am turning my studies to Esperanto. Aroha nui kia koutou katoa 110 a truly, TARATI. [Many thanks fer the translation, Tarati. I suppose you can understand why I asked for it.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —We arc having our winter holidays at present, and we go back to’ school next Tuesday. I set trap 3 every week-end, but I do not catch much, as I only set ten. Last year I used to set them in the school garden, but all the rabbits that were caught managed to get away with three legs and one stump. I went to Hull’s pictures last Tuesday night, and I liked them. I think they are coming back next Monday. We play football at school, and I play in the team. We are getting a new greyhound next week, but we are just going to look after it. My brother is down in Dunedin et present.* Love to Happy Jack 11, A Gingerbread Cake, and Maid of the Valley.—Yours truly, A CANADIAN DESPATCH RIDER. Dear Dot. —Since I last wrote to the page we have shifted into the country. I like living here better than in the town. There are only 17 attending our school. We have a cow. but we are not making butter. It is quite a treat for us to have cream. We have only 15 acres of land. We live abo/t H miles from. town. I learn music, and m go in every Saturday. We all have bicycles. I have a lady’s and Mor.evmu.sk has a little girl’s bicycle. We have about a mile to go to school, and we cycle 'here. Monkeymusk and I have been home from school with bad colds. Love to Queen Tclephassa, Nib and Nob, Pepper Kit, Pineapple, Tim Pale Ice Queen, Buttercup. Little Mis 3 Mischief, and all the other L.F., not forgetting yourself. —Yours truly. A RUSTIC BEAUTY (Hokitika). [I ani sure you w r ill appreciate the cream and other luxuries one secures In the country.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —I have teen helping my mother, as we have been busy shifting over the river. I like living here fine. We hove a cow now, and have lots of cream. We go to another school now, where there are only 17 children. My mother bought me a nice little bicycle—such a litle one, and my sister and I ride to school. I have 14 dolls, and the biggest one is 24 inches long, and it is so fat that I can put my hands roun d its legs. I have a bubble-pipe, and I blow prettybubbles. Love to Nib and Nob, Pepper Kit, and ell the other .D.L.F., not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, MONKEYMUSK. (Hokitika).

[You cannot bo lonely with such a large family, dear. —DOT.] Dear Dot, —The young men down here have formed a football club, and thsy play very Well, especially the second grade. I have lost one of my old schoolmates, as they have shifted to the town. 1 go to eee them sometimes, end we have- a walk around town, and he showed me the school he goes to. We play football at school, and have a good time. There are thirty odd going to our school, and among them there are seven boys in Standard V. I am in Standard VI, and like the school work very much. There are only three in Standard VI, and 1 am the only boy. My cousin is just out of the hospital, where he has. been under an operation. I am learning woodwork at the Manual Training School, and at present I am making a tooth brush rack. With love to Buffalo Bill, Briar Rose, Mechanic, and Dixie Hart, not forgetting yourself.— Yours truly, BRITISH NAVS& (Wocdend). Dear Dot, —May I join your happy band? I am nine years old, and in (Standard 11. Our next examination will be in two months’ time. Bathurst and E nst-one are my two brothers. Love to Polly Anna, Granny’s Pet, and all L.F. and yourself.—Yours truly, GERSY. [You are both very welcome to join us, Gersv, but please will Ayliifo write in ink. DOT.] Dear Dot, —I was in Invercargill on Saturday, and it was wet most of the day. I went up to Riverton on the ton past four train to see some friends, and I went to the pictures at night. I. stopped at Riverton that night, and cycled to Winton on Sunday, a distance of 35 miles. With love to Sunny Southland er, Machinery, and all the D.L.F., not forgetting your own dear self. —Yours truly, MAILBOY (Browns). Dear Dot, —I am nine years of age, and in Standard II at school. We are milking six cows, and we are feeding two pigs. My brother lias a greyhound. It started to eat eggs, so we keep it tied up now. We have 10 ducks, but only one or two are laying. The hunt is to l be in Dip ton on the l 22nd of {his month, and we are going to get out ot school early so that we can go to it. I live two sisters and one brother. .We drive about four miles to school. I go to the same school as - A Yellow Sunflower. With best love to all the D.L.F. and youreself.— Yours truly, HO IE. [lt i 3 to be honed you get good weather for the hunt meeting, Noic-. —DOT.] Dear Dot, —I was in Dunedin for a lioli day. and I saw seme big ships. My uncle took me all over one of them, and 1 liked it very much. I saw an aeroplane up in the air, and it makes such a noise that one can hear it a long way off. I -was,up in the N.Z. Express Company’s lift one day.—Yours truly, LEITH EN. [You had a good loner ride in the lift Lsithen.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —I was housekeeper for a week. Mother tells me net to write tco often, for I would only crowd others out. We have a little do,<r that m issed mother very much; lie would look such a lot for her. I wasvery glad to see mother come home again. My father lias been cutting down some big trees. I was out gathering up my rabbit traps. 1 am not going to do any more rabbiting.—Yours truly, FLORIS. [Mother evidently understands our space difficulty, Floris, and I am grateful for her thoughtfulness.—DOT.] , Dear Dot,—There is to he a dance held on . * llc i 17in the hall, and we will be going ,f it is a fine night. I am learning dancing, and I think it a very nice pastime. My two brothers are playing cards, and iliey are making enough noise too. On Tuesday the goods train ran off the line between Kanfur’y and Wcdderbu-n The cause of this was a cow being caught in the oattlj-steps. It delayed the ’ passenger and the evening goods as well. At about I! o c*ock that, night an engine went up and brought down the goods tra in; it a gain came down at half-past four. It was a good thing that it was not the morningtrain, as wo get our bread from Dunedin. Love to Witch Wmme. Pu d Heal her Golden u.cry, and Daffodil, not forgetting your own clear self.—'Yfours trulv WHITE LILAC. . Updifficult for mo to remember each individual letter received, White Li'-ic If I received it it would be published,,, thomdi at present a great many letters have to b© held over for a time.—DOT.] * )e ß, r Dot—Being a constant reader of the D.L.h leuere in the Witness I would very much like to join the page. I am 33 years of ago, anci 1-eft school four yours ago. " We were to have the pleasure of seoingYm aeroplane on Sunday .and were very disappointed when ,t did not come. We will perhaps still nave the opportunity of seeing, and perhaps have a ride in it. I think it would bo simply glorious sailing- in an aeroplane. Going up like a rocket gene insane. Love to ad the dear Dots, not forgetting- yourself.—Yours truly, BLACK AND GOLD. and'"'Cield!—DO?.] We,oOnM> join us ’ B,a « k Dear Dot,—Our playground at school is going to be altered. There was one big u-ee cut down and some of the rest trimmed ue Ba,fo„ r School girls are. going to have a ymtba.ll team this winter. I hope wo rf U?A t O, V ! , Dost wishes to all v *"■ not forgetting yourself.— lours truly, M f L KM A I D II (B a 1 foil r). Dear Dot,—We are having a young people’s dance here on the’lst July. My sister was home to-day from Peel Forest, where she- 'is working lliev have 45 cows. Love to all bar Blf v °‘ k ’ ( no - for -vtting your own near sail. — Yours truly, WILL O’ THE WISP ( W oodbury). Dear Dot,—l am 13 years old, and I , am m tiie Sixth Standard. In the first term examination I came top of the school I had a lovely time during the holidays. T went to Christchurch with my mother. I wrnit ten times to the pictures, once to the - peia House and) once to the pantomime Sunbad the Sailor. It was simply lovely. ITM q r 7 /F' S ° m< ; ? aiWs (7r ’) the H.M.S. Chatham visited us Wo had quite a lively time. -Yours truly. MO THE It’S S W E E TH E 4. RT. [I am delighted you had such a splendid holiday.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —We have just finished our term examination. W© had a half-holiday because it was wet. My eldest brother [nought home two little rabbits—a- white one ana a black one. Love to all the D/L.F!., not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, THE MATE OF THE WILD DEER. Dear Dot, —I am now back at school again after the term holidays. I quite enjoyed the holidays, but I think I would rather be at school. 1 don’t mind the

winter as long- as it doesn’t snow. We have liad a few showers of rain lately. They were very badly needed, because many of the people about here were carting water. I haven't been reading so many books as I usually do, because I have to-o many lessons to learn. I am very fond of reading*. Cur garden is looking very bare just now. Many of the spring flowers are already pushing their heads through the ground. The spring is my favourite season. Everything is so bright and gay. Wo have just been celebrating- the jubilee of our church. There were special services held on two Sundays, and a social was held cn a week night. I went to the social, and enjoyed myself very much. Love to Thrupp, Golden Poker, A Broken Flower X>ot, and all the other L.F., not forgetting voursdf.—Yours truly, THE BLUSHING MAID. Dear Dot, —May I join your happy band of children? I have often read some of the letters out cf the Witness, ancQ I have always. wanted to join. It rained last night, and it lias rained nearly all day to-day. I think all the people will be glad of it, as a number of them ware carting water from the river.—Yours trulv. THE WOODLAND PR f NOBSS. [I am delighted to welcome you among our correspond ents.—DOT.] Dear Dot, Nearly every spare moment I have is spent reading. Wo me of the books I have read lately are “The Other Mrs •Ja-coos,’ “Iho Young ."Ranchers,” “Mary, Up From the harm/' and “For James or xeerge. ’ I am also very fond of horses and rmnig. We have two horses—one for heavy work and the oilier for. riding. Love to ah ot the L.F. and yourself.—Yours truly A HORSE LOVER 11/ ’ [Another writer lias the above pen-name, 30 you might make another choice.—DOT.] Dear Dot,—l am Id years old, and am go mg to school. I do not like school, Lecause we get; a lot of lessons. Te had the m:ll tae other day, and the men take some feeding. It is very wet hero to-day, and ■ ho creeks are. rising rapidly. I am milking only two cows just now. I have about df hrn*s, and they are laying very well this cold weather. I did no l , go anywhere for <-ur holidays which we had last week. "We had a school social a few weeks ago, and I enjoyed myself very much at it My mother is away for a holiday just new. L went to see a football match on SVurclav between Heriot and Tapanui. My brodNr was playing m tho Tapanui team* Tb-re is to be a concert and dance at Heriot on Wednesday night. With Love to- yourself. - —lours truly, CALC) OLA. [ vv eleoma to the- page, Caloola—DOT.] Dear Dot,—-I have been a-.vay for mv lioiiclay. I had a very nice time. The day br.-oro Goon Friday I went down to Dipton, £ oll p by I/umsden. On Easter Saturday a party of 113 went to Queenstown. We got on tii© tram about twenty minutes to nine. G 1 course, wo bad to be in each a scurry as to leave, our lunch .basket in tlie station • each on© thought the other had it. We had to stand all the way up to Kingston, as the tram was full when we get in, but coming horn again they had more carriages on. Just before the boat, got into Queenstown it began to rain, but it cleared of! after o. while ancQ the sun cum© out. We were up at the garden's, and thought they were very nice. A iien vV© had seen the most of it we went round the town for a walk, then before we cam© away I got some rather nice postcard views of the place. A while before we isit for home it began to rain again, and it simply poured down. It cleared off before we got to Kingston, but the deck was lefta lilt snppery. When wo neared the wharf the people began to crowd to the one side, ana caused the boat to tilt over. I =aw quite a few sit down, and once I nearly cam© down myself. I don’t know ho-vv fast the tram went down the line that night I am sure, but I think it would take something to beat it. One of the'girls in our party fell in a pool of water just as we left tho boat, after scrambling over the side, and she was pretty well soaked, so ah© wasn’t eorrv when she reached home. On the following Monday mgnt v.-e were at a Scotch concert, and 1 was introduced to Willow-dene. From Dip i-on I went down to Invercargill wise*© I stayc-d over a week. I had a good time there also. A few weeks ago we motored through to litn. I stopped with my auntie at I, niton for two days. While staying at Titri wo went into Dunedin for the day, and commg no-mo m the evening a puncture. II was the only one we hacl while away. Wo cam© home by Eae’s Junction, and we thought it was a lovely trip. There were six in the car to Lawrence, where on of cur passengers got out. My sister got out and went .n Ihe back, as she had been sitting with clad and 1 m front. I thought coming through the Mauuna Gorge was very pretty. At \v aitahuna _ we could see the spray of w-a,ter where tney were sluicing for gold, al.-o the pipes that carried the water for such a distance along the hills. Lawrence must be very pretty in spring when all the trees, are green especially the long rows of poplars on both sides of the road as you go in.o the town. It is a very nice drive from Lawrence to Eae’s Junction. Sometimes w© seemed to be all the time risings we wound round the bills, then we seemed to go down again by winding round. Sonia pt tho p aces were pretty steep, and if the brakes weren t working very well anyone would soon come to a very sudden end Dad e.opped to let me drive at the top of the lull at Race Junction. Both of us get out and the first thing I did was to see'if w© haa used much water coming up the last lull. As soon as I began to unscrew the cap the steam began to com© out. When I puded i„ right off up came the water in a great spout. I jumped back but it caught me on one side of the face. ’ I didn’t get burnt but my face felt hot for a while 1 drove all the way home from there, coming through Crookston and Tapanui. I have been doing quite a lot of knitting latelv. I hay© made one jumper, and have nearly finished another. I have to us long needles, as I. can t hold short ones very well Mv motlver has not been keeping verv well * so Mas beef, away for a fortnight now. Love to ail the L.F. and yourself.—Yours truly, G RANT. Dear Dot,—l am writing to ask you if I may join your happy band of L.F.'? Mrs J. Milkmaid 11, A Farmer’s Girl A Farmer’s Girl’s Sweetheart, Jessica’s Niece, The Green Axias are in my class at school' There are pictures in Balfour every Monday night. Best wishes to all the Little Folk, not forgetting your own dear self.— Yours truly, MILKMAID II'S MATE. [You are very .welcome to join us, dear DOT. Dear Dot,—We have had our first term examination, at which I gained enough marks to pass. The Aurora Australis was magnificient to behold, and as it only comes within so many years I was lucky to see it. There has been a great deal of public talk about the planet Venus, and this 50 degrees west of the sun gets me puzzled. If I were a scientific, geographical, and mathematical genius, who owned a terribly big telescope I should not be long knowing where it was. The comet Pons-Winnecke is 12,500,000 miles away, and is to ajipoar in the heavens in tune to conn*. The Tararua

Ranges are having their winter coat® of snow, so- when file wind comes over from that direction we have to- be clad in coats from its sharp chill, which cuts through like a krufe. The Otaki races were held last Friday ; the never emYng stream of light? from the -cars seemed as though all tho traffic was t) pars through this town. Our cow calvecl on Thursday, and the calf is just like ilie mother, it being a heifer of the Hol-st-in breed. An up-to-date skating rink has been opened up, and it is great to see the experts flying around the room with the constant whirr of the wheels on the slippery “ cor * Dest regards to the D.L.F. and to All Only Boy, not forgetting yourself.— Yours truly, * TIIE COUNTRY OUTLAW. Dear Dot, —\Ve have only one lamb left; nei name is Lily. We killed one lamb, and we gave two more away to be killed, and wo “ l " e for mats. We have a danee and cards m the hall every WediUsday, and \*° tf > every second one. lam learning to dance, and 1 am progressing favourably. lours truly, J „„ , NORFOLK. .. -V-f, aro forcocl to condense as.mucli as nbiNN Norfolk, as there arc more le.teis i-han we have space for.—DOT.] cNIT iNNN I’’' 1 ’’' ? - ic n yOUr ! '- :1 1 band NbTt'fN b ly • sl - 3tor ' usod to write, but she fab riT °! ■' vrm ’Vb so I thing], t I would „ , bj uce ;- I mu eleven years of ;■,<>© nft ta r ar< b IV - Love 1o aII the Yours "truiy, 3™ °™n dear «if.rv honey suckle. cuckfo- a Dob] ly TClcomo to IloneyI «m Z gc r ing h Tf the football at scb.o< 1 an,] it Z , P J, U one warm on ,h A L“ f , m S«- , Hcve to all the D'L F not forNtr' 11 ' yourself.—Yours truly ’ forgetting T 1 .. MUSTARD POT (TJyal Bush). Folk? 1 D w7 M hnve I>and of Li;tl ° foK.'3Sv i-ilrb »“ te? F “ ,k - SUNBEAM. to T the Sunbeam.—DOT.] wi itN holtdG am loo]dj, ° forward to thi 23rd b+i y "? w > ns ' ys break up on the wilt a frfo ? 1 r m i* ht to Karamoa W 1 f ’T aml aa 1 have not been down tficie before I am sure to enjoy myself I pbf Gorge lovely, Dot? I admired he Buber tco. IVe have Basket Ball teams iw.e, and on the 3rd of June our school played tno -Slate school on our grounds. VW. were the winners, and tho scores 22—4. Since then the State school team has chal-*eng-ed us to a game for the 25th of this month. We are working hard, and wish to wm again, but if we don’t we will have iO try again. I shall tell you how we get ° 1 ,n m y next letter, and I shall write sooner next time. Some cf the girls from nere are going for Public Service this month, and I am going to try too. I suppose there Will b3> a numb, r o f the Little Folk coin©for it, and I wish them all the greatest success. I went to Sodden ville for c, weekend with a friend, and was very sorry when it was time to come home. I had a letter trom Yellow _ Banksia, end I often see Mother’s Lassie, who is at present stayin'* wKh my mother at home. My brother anci .father, have been away for a' holiday, and inve just come home. Kind regards to all the L.F., including Yellow Banksia and Mother s Lassie, not forgetting your own dear self.—Yours truly, * j FATHER’S LASSIE. j [I wish you the greatest aucosas in the ' examination. Father’s L-assie, and I hope the team also proves successful.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —We have a new master at school, and we lilt© him. I am looking forward to passing the Sixth Standard this year. I don’t know if I shall, but I hop© so. There is to bs a send-off here on Friday to a couple who have lived in Moa Creek for a great number of years. I should like to go, but I expect I shall have to stay home, aa I am not usually a lucky person. We are having lovely weather u.p here. We do not piny hock ey or anything like that at our school, but I wish we did, as l-ounders get tiresome after one has played them for days. Sometimes we join the boys playing football, but it is rather rough. Love to Marigold, Vanilla’s Schoolmate, Spring Blossom, True Emblem of Peace, and all the D.L.F., not forgetting your own dealself.—Yours truly, VANILLA. [Why do* not some enterprising students form a team, Vanilla?—DOT.] Dear Dot, —I am eight years old and in . Standard II at school. We have the Roll : of Honour on our school. I cannot write 1 very well with ink yet. I was second in my class at the term exam. With love to all D.L.F., not forgetting your own dear self.— : Yours trulv, THE LITTLE FOOTBALLER. [You have made a very fair attempt, Little Footballer, and I shall be interested watching your progress, as yon promise to be a good writer.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —I have been sick for a week, and I am just getting better. We have 1 two hens laying, and we get an egg every day. On Sunday we went to our auntie’s place in the car. We have 16 children going to our school. The factory will coon be stopped, and v,-e will separate the milk. Love to all the D.L.F., not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, HEARTY LASSIE. I [I hope you are now quite recovered, ; Hearty Lassie.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —Now that Show Week is over . I have settled down to peace and quietness, j I went to the show on Wednesday night and j Friday afternoon, so I ought to have seen it well. There was a large number cf people in town for it. I saw Daddy Long Legs at the pictures a few weeks back. It is exactly . like the book. I have just read “The Little . Lady of the Big House,” by Jack London, and it was very good. I have a cold at 1 present, but as everybody else has one ’ there is no reason why I should not have my share. 1 am expecting one of my brothers down this week, and as I have not seen him for some years I am feeling a bit excited about his coming. Ho is going to try his luck on the West Coast, so he : will not spend much) time here. I went all j over the H.M.S. Chatham when it was here. I It was very interesting indeed. I would have liked to have been able to have gone down and seen it leave, but as. it was Monday, 4‘washing day,” I had no luck. : However, I watched it from here as it sailed out of Hie harbour. I spend a good bit of

my time watching the boats come in and go out. With best wishes to A Shetland Laddm, Village Girl, and A Quarrelsome Lad die. —Y qurs t iai 1 v, A LONESOME LILY. D.ar Dot, It is beginning to rain now. I nop© it is not raining to-morrow, as I have to go mto Alexandra. I was away staying rU 1 ’ | my S r. St i C m for , two da - va - 11 ’- vas nfo a very long holiday, but 1 liked it verv much. I went to Little Son Eric’s place to-nfoht. Love to Little Son Erie, Muriel. Ladybird, Aunt Hullah, La Rein©, Lime Juice,'Maid th< N LoJcea, and Lovdy, not forgetting J ourself.—Yours truly, HAZEL DELL. Dear Dot, —We have been having some very hard frosts lately, but the days have been grand. It rained here all dav yesterday. I thought we were going to' have a cloud-burst to-day, but we never had a drop I was at (he extended night of tho quadrilles last Wednesday, and I enjoyed myself immensely. I arrived home at 3 o clock. I was just like a boiled owl the next day. I could havdlv dra<* or~ f;.-ot after the other, but that myht I was fit for an- °’ . * -J n ?y undo to hale his rabbitskins this morning. Wo filled two bdee. Before we .started mv uncle said bo would ‘.ivc me a “sprat’ if I helped him, but when I finished he yave me £1 ss. I was in to so.'' dm football ma L cli on Saturday h/lwccu Alexandra and Cromwell, and Alexandra won >y 0 point- to nil. I stayed in to Hhc pictures. and I enjoyed, them very much. Kr’nd r n erds and host wishes to Ethno and ell the L.F.. not forgot!ing your own dear self.— Yours truly, COLLEEN RHU. Dear Do'.—T have been froing- over most of the farmers’ bocks lately, and, really, thine.G ore not nearly as hod os poi.io people would have one believe. These who hod land b ■ ’To the war have a nice little nest-eye;- to foil back upon, and the others will pull through if they 1: ep cool and economise a bit. A party of us went out piir-shootingi on Sunday. Tlmre were seven of us, including* three wildly enthusiastic .sreu tic men from Wanganui, who arrived on the scene arrayed in knickerbockers and stiff collars. Of course, they hod more on than that, but I had eyes for nothing else; they reminded me s* rangelv of “the throe dicky birds.” I started to laugh, tried to turn it into a coukh, almost choked, and succeeded in makiner myself look extremely idiotic. The three Dickies were in nowise abashed when they* saw our old clothes, and Dicky No. 1 started f-o fell us in detail exactly what he. would do when lie met the pics. We had gone about a mil© when Dicky No. 2 slipped and sat down violently upon a manuka stump. Having a fine command of the English language—.as spoken in Billingsgate he told that stump exactly what he thought of it. When his feelings were sufficiently relieved ho cot up and wended his v/ay slowly beck, and as the dinner bags disabled Dicky No. 3. struggled on another mile, and then it suddenly occurred to him that Dicky No. 2 must be feeling awfully lonely, so he fluttered back to keep him company and, incidentally, to re«t his wearied limbs. Dicky No. 1 struggled on gamely. Ifo bad accounted for three pigs, and cnly slightly wounded one dog. Mercifully he was too tired to tell us again exactly how he had done it, but kept plodding on a little apart from the rest of us. Suddenly a big black boar, which had evidently been sleeping, sprang out from a l.ni=h right in front of him. He gave a yell, dropped his r ile, and did the 100 yards in record time. Tho boar made a. bolt in the opposite direction, but dropped with three bullets in him, This ended our day’s sport, and we returned to the dinner b:;g3 followed by a pitiful, bedraggled-looking being whom no one would have guessed to he our sprightly Dicky Bird of the morning, for at the end of his hundred he had stumbled into a mud-hole, where the boar had been wallowing. All this goes to show that “even the mighty may fall.” for Dicky No. 1 is one of the most prominent business men in Wanganui. Love to Tarati and yourself. —Yours trulv. UN CHEVALIER D’AMOUR. [You must admit No. 1 was game until taken by surprise, Tin Chevalier. —DOT.] Dear Dot.—May I become a member of voir,- lm.nny band? I am 10 years old, and am in Standard 111 at school. I do not like going to school. One. cf my playmates who used to live near me has gone away to live in Scotland. Love to all the D.L.F., not forgetting your own dear self..—Yours truly, PRINGLE’S MATE. [You are very welcome to join ns, Pringle’s Mato.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —I went to see Gentle Annie yesterchv,-. and wo had a very enjoyable day. My mother and my wee brother went for n. hob-ley a. f -v days ago. and Motor Girl is cook. Oil Friday the Balfour and Ardlu~ =a children. played football, but I did not <>o in to ere them, as I am lie* interested in football. Love to Campfire Girl. Mohican, Mountain Lily, The Hen Wife, Farmer’s Girl. Gentle Annie. Rose Mary. Flower Girl IT, and not forgetting your own dear self.— Yours trulv, HEATHER (Ardlussa). Dear Dot, —I am 13 years old and in Standard V. We are milking 45 cows, but they are nearly dry. Our hens are laying, and we get nine and 10 eggs daily. Wo have had our term holidays, and have started ,>• y;iin. I plav football at school, and like it verv much. Love to all the D.L.E., not forgetting yourself.—Yours trulv, * JACK THE GIANT-KTT,LV.R. [Welcome to the page, Jack. —DOT.] Dear Dot,—W© have been on the move for the last three months, and we are only just getting settled now. I am going to s'-art work any day now. My sister Lucret.ia has started work on a farm, hut Tam going to work here. We have been here four days now, and we have never seen the sun yet. It is a very different climate to Central Otago. There are throe different hockey teams here. I had a week’s holiday in Dunedin just after Easter, but I didn’t think much of 'own. I would sooner h© in the country. Love to all the D.L.F. and yourself.—Yours trulv LONE WOLF (Wyndham). Dear Dot, —The days are getting very cold, and the frost is making its appearance. The English Church held a bazaar on Friday, and I had Is 6d to spend on dips. Love to Jumping Jack. —Yours truly. LAZY BONES. Dear Dot, —I do not remember exactly where I left my D.L.F. in the course of my walk in Paris. I suppose it is at the entrance of “Boulevards.” Do you know that word cannot lie translated into any foreign language. Ask your soldiers who have seen Paris and walked along the “Boulevards,” and perhaps they will try to give you an idea of them. At first, ivb.cn we walk along the “Royal street,” we have in front of us the church “La Madeleine,” on old temple which was disaffected during the Revolution, and just begin the “Boulevards.” Imagine a street two miles long, and on each side high houses of six or seven floors high, and luxurious shops, and eplen-

did things in those shops. V\'e are in the heart of Paris, and during the evening and night thousands and even hundreds of thousands of people walk along those streets. You meet all the nations, ail colours of people, and you can see and admire on the shoulders of cur girls and women the last creations of the “street Peace/’ on which w© paid a visit last letter. But you must imagine it is very difficult t-o me to speak to you about Paris. Everyone says Paris is the finest and the prettiest town in the world, and I am sure you’ll think I am too proud of my country. But you may be euro it is a very funny spectacle at about 6 p.m., when all the terraces of our cafes and palaoes are crowded with delicious •women and gentlemen. And in the night people invade the dozens of kinemas and theatres. Paris contains about 60 theatres, and a lot of them are along these famous “Boulevards.” The large kinemas show pictures continually from 1 p.m. to midnight, end are always full inside. But we have to take care to cross thr median streets; cars, bi7ses, and taxis arc there in thousands and thousands, and policemen are busy all the day long regulating them. You must consider the same crowded peonh underground. We have an underground railway, a tube which runs under Paris in every direction. At several times in the day people are so numerous that the best idea is to compare them to having squeezed into baskets. So you imagine how frnnv it is to 20 minutes in that train, where waggons are never full, never full! Halar! When we reach the surface we have arrived at the “St. Denis” Gate, and a few yards distant, the “St. Martin’s” Gate is just at the level of the street. They are high arches, which very often are the cause of numerous incidents with bus and cars. Bui. our walk along the “ Boulevards ” i c done superficially. I dare not give you the full idea of the special life met along those r-treets. I see at the end the famous- statue of the It ©public, erected on the place of the cum? name, and wh’ch show us the end of “Boulevards.” llapniiy cafes are numerous, and in sumn;or beer is very cold. Sor my dear Dot, that’s all I had to tell you about our “Boul.,” and my next letter will be to give you an idea of “Montmartre,” the district where I live, most typical in Paris, and which has given to you.—Youis truly, LE MONTMA RTROIS. N.B.—The price of postage on letters to Prance is now 5d in place of 2M. Dear Dot, —We had a visitor from Christchurch staying with us for three weeks a short time ago. He is a blind man, and is s:> bright and jolly and gets about so capably that one scon forgets about his affliction. One day, while he was here, I took him up to the school, whore he gave the children a very intei-sting address about the institution in Auckland for blind people, and about the Braille system of reading and writing which the children there are taught. I will tell vou as much as I can remember of the address, as perhaps some of your Little Folk will be interested in thi3 subject. The Braille syst cm got its name from the founder, a Frenchman called Louis Braille, and, as you will see by the alphabet enclosed, it is composed of a certain number of raised dote io each letter. Now, Dot, you see that cluster of six do is down in the bottom right-hand corner of the page, and bow they are numbered; well, the whole alphabet is composed entirely cut of those six dots, each of which has a number, as you will see, the three on the left-hand side being 1,3, and 5, while those opposite arc 2.4, and 6. “A” is composed only of No. 1 dot, “B” is 1 and 3, “C” is 1 and *2, and so on Now her© is a wonderful feature of the alphabet. On close observation we notice that the second line is merely flic first over again, but with No. 5 dot added to* it; and, again, we see that the same thing applies to the s:-cond and third lines, the only difference being that No. 6 dot is added to the third line. The children in the blind institution have to do a great deal of writing, such cs writing their own geography, hisforv, and boohs such as those which cannot be procured in New Zealand, so that in time they become quite expert at it, though, by ihe way, they are taught in the institution it is a fairly slow process at the best cf times. There are some children in that school as young as four years, and, of course, they are in the kindergarten. There they get big wooden beads to play with and form their letters with. Then they get beads of smaller sizes, until ihey are so small that they cannot bo bought here, so they ate imported from England. In the bigger standards they have lesson a, the same as Wf have, onlv they have big frames made specially for blind pernio, instead of 1 lie slates we use in our schools. They are also taught to do very clever things with their fingers—e.g.. they make strawberry baskets, pretty bead ornaments, and things like that. Each child, as soon as it is old enough, ie taught to make its own bed, and take its turn at sweeping out die dormitories, in which places everything is white. I forgot to mention before that the older children have big maps in their schoolroom. The mountains on mans are raised and the rivers cut out, so that when the child puts its hand on a certain portion cf the map 'it should he able to tell what part of the country that is, etc. These blind children read by drawing the fingers cf the right hand along the line of dots and •guiding it wi.h the left. 1 think that is all I can remember, so I wiil close with kind regards to Highland Cinderella, Flower Girl 11, Madcap, and our own local correspondents, also be3t wishes for yourself.—Yoius truly, MINNEHAHA. [Your des'.u ipt ion is very interesting, Minnehaha, and I thank y.u for the card.— DOT.] De ar Dot. —Ma y I joi n your L-u>p v ban d ? The weath?r is keeping exceptionally good, but wo have very biting frorfs hero. T have a hay cob pony, and he is the best I have had for many a long day. Down at Hampden it. lias been so very dry that most of the farmer* have been carting Gieir water, as there has been no rains. All the farmers ere busy carting grain and breaking up ground for winter feed. AYith love to all the D.L.F , not forgetting your own dear self.—Y mu?, truly, ROUGH RIDER. [Will you inForre. tlie ether three writers that leHi-is must he written in ink, please, Rough Rider. —EOT.] Dear Dot, —I lope you will swept me as one of your numerous correspondents. I will too 10 in October, and am at present working at home, but hope to bo out at work very soon. I hr. :e one sister, who 13 married. and e x brothers, three 01 whom are already married. I her not as yet met anyone in Tirra.ru who writes to tiro page; 1 wonder if there are any? I went !o the pictures last- nieht, and they were really yery good, especially the drama which was named “The Trumpet Island.” T like pictures very much be* 1 ready think it is too dear to go very often, these days, now that tiio prices have gone r.p; hut, however, on© must go out somewhere, as the band oorcerts are over, and there is really nowhere else to go but tho pictures. We have a dance here every week, although I do not

go, my mates does, and I do envy Lor. Tho dances ar© w?ll patronised just now, as it is just the time for them, and I think one enjoys dancing when it is really very cold. Another amusement we used to have last year was skating. It is disappointing we cannot have it this year, as they cannot obtain a hall. Tho ono which was itscd last year is now divided into* two big motor garages. Love to the other Little Folk, not forgetting ycur own dear self.—Yours truly, THE DAUGHTER OF ROSIE O’GRADY* [You are very welcome to join us, —DOT.] Dear Dot, —The river is flooded almost up to the dairy factory, which is about 10 chains away from it. I came second top this exam., and my mate in Mat aura came about four ill top up there, so we didn’t do badly. We are going to play the Rimu School foot-ball soon, an<l I think we will beat them, as wo have a bigger school than they have. Deerfoot tho Shawano© i 3 the captain of our team, and he is a good player. My brother has just been up in Dunedin and Christchurch for a- holiday, and he saw the buildings m which the- Witness is printed, but I don’t think he saw through it. The cows are just about dry now and I will be glad when they ar© dry, 1 :cau-e T do not like getting up at. 6 o’clock in the morning. Love to Deer foot the Shawanco, The Maid of the Valle 3% Mac. and all the L.F.. not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, SCOTCII MAC (Kenningi on). Dear Do!, —May I join your happy band? I am eight years old, and I am in Standard 11. I ride a pony to school, as I have three and a-half miles to go. I am reading a book just now called “The World of Ice.” I like reading boys’ books. I have v little sister, she is three years old. W© call her Pat, but her proper name is Del fa Doreen. Mv father has started ploughing, and I go with him on Saturdays. Love to D<* Jinn Mrs Jim, Milkmaid IT. A Green Ixia, and your dear self. —Yours truly, THE BOY FROM LLANARTK (Balfour). Dear Dot, —May I join your happy band? 1 am 14 years of age, and I am in the Sixth (Standard. We will be having our exam. soon, and I hope I will oass. Love to all the D.L.F., not forgetting your own dear self.— Yours truly, BEBE DANIELS. [When forwarding money by pest please register it. I have enclosed the envelope.— DOT.] Dear Dot, —T am reading “On Our Selection.” 1 went for a ride on my bicycle, and got wet through. I have a black cow, but she is dry at present. We grew three potatoes—ihey weighed 31b 4-oz, 21b 2oz, and 21b respectively Tho creek has been over its bank now for more than a week. Love io Dutch Girl, Mary o’ the Glen, Nancy Leo, Smiling Jack, Starlight, Briar Rose, not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, A HEART OF GOLD. Dear Dot, —We arc milking two cows now, and they are not giving very much. There are not many flowers out. 1 have a flower garden, and I have in it pansies, Sweet- William, geraniums, violets, forget-me-nots, and sweet peas. I was not at school to-day. I had Io- keep house, as my mother was not at home. The chaffcutter was riund, and the men sinyed all night. Best love to Cream Rose, A Naughty Little Girl, Li! tie Queen Mah, Lady Lillian, and Curly, not forgetting yourself.—-Yours truly, JENNY Yv REN (Otara). Dear Dot,—l was in town at Show tiroofer about two weeks, and had a very pleasant time. There was -a hockey match, brio on Wednesday between the school girls and th? young ladies, but the school children won. I am in Standard VI at school. Our school concert is next week. Love to Sunshine Girl and oil the Little Folk, not forfrolting your own dear self. —Yours truly, THE FAIRY QUEEN. [Your last loiter will no doubt appear in duo time. We are overcrowded at present. —DOT.] Dear Dot, —A hockey match was held not so long ago between the ex-schoolgirls and the pr-Qisent team, but our school team won with one goal to nil. We are having* our second term exam, at school now. 1 am in Standard VI, and am hoping to gain my proficiency at school. I learn music, and 1 have now been learning for one year and a-ha’f. There is a school concert here next week in aid of a Roll of Honour board.— Yours truly, CYCLIST. [Please write on only one side of the paper. If correspondents would observe the rules there would he more probability of their letters being acceptable. Letters must b? written in ink, and an only one side of the- paper.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —It is raining hard to-night, so one feels very com fori a hie beside a- nice warm fire. Erotaka got up at 5 o’clock one morning to look for the comet, but did not see- it. I was not sj foolish. I said if she saw it I would get tip the next morning. The road leading 1: cor house is being mettled, so it won’t be so slippery this winter. I am reading a book named “Cornin' Through tho Rye.” There is a dance at Glcnledi every Friday night. I do not g-o to it, but The Flower of the Family does sometimes. I have not seen Silver Shoo for a few days. Low to Cream Rose, A Fairhaired Lassie’s Sister, Silver Shoe. Colecus Brambles. Glen Zoot, Tho Flower of the Family, and yourself.— \ ou or truly. TICKLE TICKLE. Dear Dot, —There is a dance on to-night at the Glcnledi School, and the people who go to it will have a lovely time going home in (he mud. I went to a dance the Friday night before*, and had a lovely time. I have been reading some very nice books lately. I have, learnt to ride on horseback now, and 1 hko it very much. I was going to a full nd's place last night, and I had a race with a cart; it was good fun. Love to Silver Shoe, Meg Carmyllie, Cole*, a, Lickle Tickle, Erotaka, and yourself.—Yours truly, THE FLOWER OF THE FAMILY. Dear Got,—l have not. soon the oomet yet, but, I had a. letter from Jl..neena, and she said that she had scan it. Vve arc getting! our road mottled, and it is not very nice to walk on. c.s the mettle is rough. Silver Shoe and Colecna arc back at Ilaurekau School again, as Glcnledi School is closed. Lickle Tickle lias taken to riding our pony over to the post offir for the mail. I don’t know whether nks it is easier than walking, tut T id ra*her walk when I go. Love to Heatncote, Grace Fisher, EeyR s ' Gloaming, Perpetual Wander, White, Iris. The Flower of the Family, and The Masked Outlaw, not forgetting yourself.— Yours truly, EROTAKA. II think tlie comet is still invisible to the naked eye, Erotaka. It can only be seen with a telescope at present. —DOT.J Dear Dot, —I had my sixteenth birthday on the Ist of June, and I got quite a. number of presents, including my birthday coke. The sailors from H.M.B. Chatham visited Ashburton last week. They visited all the schools, and gave the r' n a good time. There was a big firo 1 morning', and

I think everyone was out to see* it My father and mother have just returned from their holiday, which they spent avay in tli© North Island. It is my turn next; but I think I will wait until the winter is over. Best Jove to A Wild Irish Rose and Dancing Fool. —Yours truly, HORSELOVER, Dear Dot, —W have fivs little pigs. Wo had six, but one* dV-appeared, and we don’t know where it has gone. Da-d has sold one horse, and another died lately, e©> we have just four left. Two of our cow 3 are just about dry now, .so we are milking six at present. We had a social at our church on tho 26th of 'May. It. was got up chiefly by' the children. I recited, and gave a dialogue wjlh a little boy. The name of it was “Why.” Young Cowspanker was in on© or two* items also. My lift]© twin sisters, who have just turned .six, sang a duet, and as scon as they were finished and the people started clapping, one of them started c’apping too. They were encored, and had to s-ng it again. They each got n *VB fro-m mv aunt for singing. Y/e 1 -a* a false alarm that night. The fir obeli was rung*, and we all followed the fire brigade, but it was just some rubbish burning on ill© beach. I have an uncle and aunt staying hero just now. but they are going away lomjorrow. It i,s a beautiful moonlight night to-night. I won’t need a light when T go to bed. as I shoo in ° tend I like s’coping in a tent bett'r than inside; do you. Dot? Lev© io yourself and all the other L.F.—Y o u r s 1 ru I v, BADDY THE NEXT BEST THING. [I have always had r. desire to sleep outside in a- tent, but so far have never done go.— DOT.] Dear Dot, —I am writing to °e? if I may become a member of your happy band of L.F. 1 urn 13 years cf age, and T am in the Sixth Standard at school. Wo have been having very bad weather in Dunedin lately. As tli'.s is my first letter to th© page- I tinnk T shall close with lev© to all the- D.L.F., rot forgetting- your own dear s el f. —Yo u r s r i n c e re 1 v, PEG OF THE HIGHLANDS. Dear Dot, —May I join ycur liappy band of L.F. ? I am 14 years of age, and in the Sixth Standard at school. I have two miles 4 o go to school, and I do not like it on frosty mornings. I have never seen an aeroplan© yet, but I hope to see one some day arid enjoy the sensation of going up in it. Kind regards.—-Yours tvulv, GOLD MINER (Pah;*). [You arc very welcome to* join us, Gold Miner. —DOT.] Dear Dot,—l was 12 on Monday, and I am in Standard VI. I am always reading, and ill? bock I have just now is called “Cornered.” Everybody here is knitting jumpers, wherever yen go someone is knitting. Tho inspector is corang to our school on Tuesday, and we are going to have reading for the proficiency examination. I have been staying at my auntie’3, as mother has been to Dunedin. I went in for a music examination on Saturday, hu* the results will not bo cut for a long* time.—Yours truly, RED ROSE [I 3 1 ope wlien they do come out you will have been successful, Red Rose.—DOT.] Dear Dot, —My uncle end auntie from l 7 cat hers ton and their wee baby hoy were her© yesterday. There was a big concert in the Mimihau Hall, and the school children lock part in it. The people said we did our parts well. Dad took its and three other girls for » motor drive to Invercargill, and we had e„ good time when we got there, l go-t .such a lovely present from one cf my eur.ties; it was a lovely jorsev and tam. My .jersey is red trimmed with black and yellow. Love to all the Little Folk, not forgetting- your own dear self.—Yours truly, JOYCE'S LITTLE MAID. I You will l>e very cosy in your jersey and tam, dear.—DOT.] Dear Dot. —May I join your happy band of Tattle Folk? I am 12 years old, and am in the Fifth Standard at school. I live on a farm, and v,e are milking 12 cows. We expect to have the most of them dried off by tho end of .June. Wo have a mile and a-hcilf to go before we reach school, and mother -drives us there every day, and on wet days the- trap is brought up to bring us home. There are 21 pupils going- to our school. My two elder sisters are learning crocheting. I a,m going to learn to knit a- singlet. I have two brothers and seven sisters. Our baby is 1.5 months old. Love to all the L.F., not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly. JESSIE THE FLOWER OF DUMBLAINE. [Welcome to the page, Jessie. —DOT. Dear Dot, —May I join your band of D L.F.? I am 35 years old. Will you please send rue a badge. Love to all the L.F., not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, STOKER. [You are very welcome to join us, Stoker. —DOT.] Dear Dot, —I have been ill, and was notable to get about us usual. We have had some very sharp Hosts of la'-o, and the weather has been very wet, but, all tho same, I have enjoyed myself bv reading an interesting book called “Saved from tlio Sea.’’ We are having the. Oa.mo.ru Brass Band (Salvation. Army) here on Sunday evening.— Tea rss truly, IF UEBIRG. [I am sorry you have I n ill, dear, and trust you are now quite recovered. Please remember to write ou onlv one- side of the paper—DOT.] Dear Dot, —A doctor came to cur school with a eido-caw He had a puncture, and also could not get through the rivers. My sister is knitting a hat for herself, and is crocheting 100. She plays the piano. My brother is n. herd ease, re is always making fun of me. We go rabbiting every Saturday with five ci- six ferrets, but rabbits are eoarce up this way, and we have to put the ferrets in lots of holes before we get many. My sister fell off the nenv, and was throwing' up blood. We tlrrk the pony bolted, and the saddle slipped round, and she fell off. I do not like ponies, because the saddle does not fit on their back as well as it does on a big horse, though it is not far off tho ground. Tho cows are not- milking so well now. because it is cold, and they need turnips to keep them fat. I will be- coming down to Dunedin soon to see The Girl I Left Behind Mo. My uncle was married last week, and now ho and his bride are away Cor their honeymoon. Kind regards to all my correspondents, including yourself.— Yours truly, COWBOY. Dear Dot, —The ground is quite hard some morning's. The thrashing and chaffcutting is aIL finished about this dislrict now, and tho ploughing has started again. The comet io supposed to arrive on or about the 26th of this month, and we are hoping to see it. We have not been playing with our football at school lately. Our surprise visit is over now, and we liked the inspector very much. We are hoping to have him again at the end of tho year-. Wo had our winter holidays at Show time, but I did not go away anywhere. While the last rough weather was on we were watching on the beach for kingfish,

but we did not get any. Love to the L.F. — Yours truly, WARbTI P. Dear Dot, —AY© held a sale of work on I riday, and the Busy Bees had a stall. The Busy Bees made £3 6s, and I have 2s m ire. so that is .-€3 Bs. Altosret! ler abciu £33 was made, so that was not so bad, as it was a wet night. \\ hen w© had cur winter holidays my eldest brother cut a biy piece of a cabbage Ire?, and we d merged it up to the ton of a hill. It would not slide clown by itself, so we pulled each other down. In tii© after neon wo got up on a hill in one oi tho back paddocks, where there wer. a lot cf slieep-tracks on the side of it. We pulled each other down verv* fast, and when w© came to the sheep-treeks we nearly fell off because it was so* rough. We w uhl bounce up and then down. My we© brother and could hold on the best. Wo did not 1 iv© 'tho bumps, so w© decided to y.t an - oilier place, but as it was too hot to mil each other down wo stopped sliding’. Next day it was very cold on account of the frost, which was very hard. Mother told in to make a sled ye, so w? did it. Oh, didn’t w© sail then. My we? brother was frightened to yet on to it. We always fell off into a biT patch of thistles. We played thore until the sun cam.: and shone cn the h h. As wo are back to school again we have only Saturday now to slid© down ihe hi.l. Wo mad© one of mv grannies a nice pair of slippers, and if my other granny sends wool w© are going to make her a pair. Ac ar© getting* seven and ei-ht eggs just now. Lore to* all the Little Folk, not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, MAGGIE BELL (Crockston). Uou mils* have a lot of fun sliding, Maggie.— DOT.] Dear Dot,—l was very phased to see my loiter in print. My father has been away for a fovtnighi Lrd he is coming home on Wednesday. I shall be glad when he does eomo Back. Grandma has b:en very ill, and she is not expected to sret belter. Love to all th© D.L.F. — Yours truly, LOVE’S S W E ETH E A R.T. Dear Dot, —Ploughing is the general thing about hero just now. I have- a very bad cold, and it doesn’t put one in a very good mood. Well, Dot, I think I will close. Love to all the- L.F., not forgetting yourself.— Yours truly, TWOSTEP. Dear Dot,—May I join your happy band? I will be nine in September. lam S«ago Pudding’s sister. My .si stcr and I have K' n away from school for a week. Love to Wild Violet, Cockle, Mermaid, Fern, and all tho oihe: D.L.F., not forgetting yourself. —Yeuvs truly, PONTO. [You are very welcome to join us, Ponto.— DOT.] Dear Dot, —I have fun at school now the cold weather lias come. I am reading another nice book called “Over the Snailway.” The Oama.ru Salvation Army Band is here just now, and I suppose will bo going away on Monday morning. Love to Ti urn pet Lily and all the other D.L.F., not forgetting your own dear self.—Yours truly, A WATTLE FLOWER. Dear Dot, —We did not go to school today. We are getting our report cards to-day. Wo are milking 14 cows. All the fruit trees in the garden are all bare except tho quince. My throe brothers went down to the show. On Thursday we caught a weasel which was taking our eggs. The day before wo had our winter holidays we had a concert in the school. Love to all tlie D.L.F., net forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, RED ROSES (Awamoa). Dear Dot, —The weather up this way has been very wet and miserable; the ground i 3 not properly dry yet. I was at a concert and dance on Thursday night, and I enjoyed myself immensely. It was half-past 3 in the morning when we got home. It is very cold getting up in the mornings. We get up about half-past 6 every morning, though, of course, on Sundays vr© lie a while longer. Love to Tli© Sun Princess’s Mat:, not forgetting yourself.—Yours truly, WALNUT. AUTOS. A Fa rmer’s Girl’s Sweetheart (Irene Pringle, Box 27, Balfour) wishes to> correspond with Go-cart, An English Girl, Love's Sweetheart, Sunbeam If, and Tommie's Girlie. Erica (Ida Hav-ard, Ahuriri Flat) wishes to correspond with any L.F. 14 or 15 years. Bill (Milly M'Kenzie, Ngapara) wishes to correspond with A Wattle Flower. Crimson Taniger Mean Buchanan, Ashmead, Di.p ton) wishes to correspond with Prairie Fire and any L.F. between 15 and 17 willing. 'Silver Star (Mary Stiven, Paretai) wishes to correspond with An English Girl, Buzzer, Pouting Polly, Milkmaid, and Maid of tli° Valley/ Little Friday (Eileen Morrison, L ffc-y street. Bluff) wishes to correspond with Feliei Nations. Brownie, Sun Princess, and any L.F. willing. Queen Diana (Rivth S. Jenner, Cloverba. Pine Bush) wishes to correspond with An Australian Lr.es, Revile, Bosnia, and any L.F. willing. Ngnrefa (Miss Beta Gaffney. Queen street, Pukckohe, North Island) wishes to correspond with Alan-a-ua-.e and Anzac’s Son’s Mato and any L.F. willing 17 to 19 years. Beautiful Ohio (Miss Olive M. Henderson, Box 11, Lumsden) wishes to correspond with Morforwyn, Buzzer, Australian Boy, Rangitata* Lass, Th© Dancin’ Fcoh Forget-me-not, Peony Rose, An English Girl, A Cockatoo, Puffing Tom, Th© Skite, Patriotic Paul's Cobber, Jerry Joy. Kim, The Lass That Loves a Sailor, Jolly Jeck Tar, Wsyback, An Only Boy, and any L.F. from 17 to 20 years. Lover’-: Dream (M. M’KinViy, Wigan street, Gore) wish ©a to correspond with Beverley, Pav-on'ii, Primula, and Taniwha. Kowhai {Mary Mitchell. Valley road. Dargavillc) wishes to correspond with Memories, Stella th© Star, Campania, Hawaiian Maid, Blue Bird, and Hera. M uikov (Marjorie Andrews, Browns) wis’. *s to correspond with Stella tho Star, B’u ' Mountain Duck, Paddy tlie Next Best Th hig. Whit© Violet, and Rose-pink. Th© Hen Wife (Jean Roy, Box 17, Balfour) wishes to correspond with any L.F. 10 to* 12 years willing. A Mountain Climber (Stewart M'Bryde, Glennrchy) wishes to correspond with Pubnki, Queen Alexandra., Dreamy Mick, Cabbage Tree Ned. and any L.F. willing. Nevavore (Mies V. Y. Boyer, Post Office, Maunmvt.ua, Talerh would like to correspond with Pouting Polly and Primula and any LiHle Folk, boys or girls, about 19 years willing. Bluebird (Miss N. Jones, Palmerston, Otago) wishes to correspond with 5.0.5., Birn, A Masked Rider, A Marked Outlaw, Aviator’s Pal, A Simple Melody. A Lonesome Melody, Blue Bell, Bell-bird, or any L.F. over 15 years if willing. Tangier's Wcnnie (Miss M. Dow, Box 72, Alexandra. Central Otago) wishes to correspond with A Maid of the Mountains; also wishes to renew her correspondence with Dorothy Daydreams, Gloria, Rond Hog, and Muriel.