Points From Letters
“When I read the account of the. rose trees hard life making it bloom. I remembered hearing about a man who owned a heather tree and ever so often he used to give it terrible thrashings with his walking stick and it user! to flower beautifully. We were going to try it on ours but it flowered well this season and thus saved itself.” —Cousin Alma Dorricott. “If only Cousin Katherine O’Brien were to write a play I think her charming thoughts would be expressed very well. I do so much enjoy her writings.” -—Cousin Zoe Smith. ♦ * * ♦ “I had a lovely birthday. I opened all my presents at breakfast time, but I didn’t cut my cake till I came home from school that day. There was roast goose and jellies and all sorts of lovely things. Next day I had a piece of birthday cake in my school lunch and I found sixpence in it. Wasn’t that lucky? I had eleven candles on my cake this year and it seemed such a lot. —Cousin Mary O’Brien.
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Southland Times, Issue 21657, 19 March 1932, Page 18
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179Points From Letters Southland Times, Issue 21657, 19 March 1932, Page 18
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