Chums in Calendar Land.

Otago Witness, Issue 3944, 15 October 1929, Page 75

Chums in Calendar Land.

By

ERN SHAW.

Copyright.

No. 2. JANUARY. . Well may Golly have been astonished, for approaching was the weirdest-looking individual they had ever seen. Dressed in white he came, and appeared to have just stepped off an ice chest From hi s long bony nose and sharp chin hung thin icicles; his hair was a stiff mop, frozen and uncombed; all his long length was covered by a mist coloured cloak, whose folds were slow and heavy like snow drifting before a winter wind. His hood, hanging loosely at his back, left his liead bare. All around his skinny form moved a biting breeze.

“ What’s this?” cried Teddy, shivering with the cold. “ Ask me another,” responded Golly, blowing into his numbed fingers.

Then the stranger spoke: “ I am January, the first month of the year,” he said, “the time of snow, and sleet, and ice. Ha, ha, see me race along and send everyone scurrying to a warm fireside. 'Ti’s jolly!” Suddenly he took from his cloak a huge book marked “Resolutions” “ Herein I enter all resolutions made during the year,” he said “make yours now and be the first.” ’

“Oh no, you don’t catch us napping!” Teddv said. “It isn’t New Year yet,” then-plonk!—the figure vanished with such an explosion that the Chums were thrown into the air and landed on the road with a bump.

(To be Continued.)