SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS

Southland Times, Issue 17477, 5 April 1915, Page 6

SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS

THE PRIZE ESSAYS. The following <ssay took first prize in the competition arranged by Mr-Beau-mont Smith in connection with “Seven bittle Australians." The essay was to be written on the subject "What must X do so that father and mother will lake me to see 'Seven battle Australians.’ ” The winner is Elsie Dykes, aged 14 years, of Don street, Invercargill: ■'[ would simply love to go and see 'The Seven bitlie Australians.' I have heard so much about it that I feel that I would do any tiling in my power to help my parents, so that they will let me go. 1 will do all my messages without grumbling. J will do the dishes every morning before 1 go to school, and instead of playing games after school I will hurry homo and see if there is anything 1 can do in the way of helping with the ironing, etc. I will get up every morning, and prepare the breakfast, so that mother may have a longer rest. On Saturday morning 1 will work so hard that mother will ha sure to say f deserve to go in the afternoon. As for father, I will help him to mow and rake the grass, dean his boots for him, and brush his clothes before lie goes to work. .1 will also weed the garden, and. in fact, do anything that I am able to do, which will save him any bother. The winner of the 2nd prize is Vernard Ciit'ord Troon, aged J 1 years, McQuarrie st.. S. In'gill. Uc says: "I am going to do all 1 can to help mother and father so that they will take me to see “Seven bittle Australians.' So I am going to get up early on Saturday morning and bring up the cows and horses, before father is out of bed. We have four horses and three cows. I can't milk yet, so 1 will just have io leave them for father. I shall feed the pigs and fowls and by that time father will bo up and he will say, “Oh, you have been working; if you hell) mother to-day I shall come home early from work and take you and mother to -sec “Seven bittle Australians.” ’’ Then I shall be delighted and J shall chop the wood, bring in the coal and do a lot of other little jobs to help. I can't wash out the floor or wash the dishes, because I am only a boy. X suppose if I were a girl, mother would let me bake, and then, oh! wouldn’t that be nice, to mix up the dough and occasionally pop a rasin or two into my mouth. “Ob. yes,” the girls always have the nicest things to do. The cook generally does all that in our house, though, and I must not come into Che kitchen, or she will growl and scold at me and, worst luck, she would tell father I had been a naughty boy ami then 1 would not be allowed to go to the play. So 1 am going to bo a good boy, because I would like very much to see "Seven bittle Australians.”