HOW I SPENT MY EASTER HOLIDAYS.

Southern Cross, Volume 6, Issue 9, 4 June 1898, Page 11

HOW I SPENT MY EASTER HOLIDAYS.

The first day of our Easter holidays was Good Friday, and we had till Monday, the 18th, When Good Friday came I was not quite sure where to go, but I at last decided to walk out to West Plains to see a friend. It was a beautiful day, and I enjoyed the walk. I just arrived in time for my dinner, and was glad I did, for I was beginning to feel ready for it. After dinner we went away for a walk down the bush, and stayed there for a good while, then we came back and had our tea. I left again about six o’clock, and arrived home about half-past seven, having enjoyed myself very much.

The next holiday was Easter Monday, and that was the best one of all. A friend of mine invited me up to Gorge Road to spend the day. Gorge Road is a farming district, at the terminus of the Seaward Bush railway line, and I think it would be hard to find a prettier district any where. The train only runs there three timas a week Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday, and it leaves at half-past six in the morning each of these days. When I got up on Monday morning I thought 1 was not going to get my trip, for it looked very wet, but I thought that it might be wet in Invercargill and not wet at Gorge Road, so I decided to go. It was about six o’clock when I left home to catch the train, so I was in plenty of time, as I got to the station at twenty minutes past six. What surprised me most when I got there was to see the large number of persons going by that train, but I soon found out that they were all working men going to the many different sawmills up that line. There was something to look all the way up in the train, for every now and again you passed a sawmill at which the train stopped to let out a number of the working men. The train arrived at Gorge Road shortly after eight o’clock, and I arrived at ray about nine. When 1 got there I bad a cup of tea, and then went out to have a look round, and I saw there was bush on every side, which looked very pretty. We had dinner about twelve, and then we started for a ramble through the bush. It was full of pretty ferns, many of which I had not seen before. I fetched home a root of the crape fern, and it is growing splendidly. I left there at five to catch the train, which left at six, and I arrived back in Invercargill at a quarter to eight, having thoroughly enjoyed myself. Thereat of the week I stayed at home, and when Monday came I started school and hard work once more. Agnes 0. Graham, aged 13 years. Attending the Gladstone School.