Comments Corner

Southland Times, Issue 22422, 8 September 1934, Page 18

Comments Corner

THE FIRST CROCUS. I was quite pleased with the entries from my little cousins for this competition but your spelling and punctuation was not very good at all. Do remember about putting inverted commas at the beginning and end of conversation. Cousin Isobel McKenzie was a bad transgressor in that respect this week and her bad punctuation spoilt an otherwise good story. I want you all to write on the subject I set you. If I ask for a story about the first crocus do write about the first crocus. Keep to the point my dears and your work will receive higher marks. Cousin Myra Newman forgot to mark her entry original so it could not be marked.

CONVERSATION BETWEEN A CAT AND A THRUSH.

I am going to be very strict these days about you keeping exactly to the subjects I set. You must learn to be observant, my dears. Cousin Margaret Jellyman wrote about cat and a “lark” instead of a thrush and Cousin Chrissie Duff wrote a “story” about a cat and a thrush instead of a “conversation” between the two. So these two entries were not marked. Cousin Joan Holmes’ entry was good. It was conversation from opening to conclusion and that is what I asked for. I must congratulate all my senior cousins on the neatness of their writing this week. Well done, my dears.