A Trip to the Moon

Southland Times, Issue 23047, 14 November 1936, Page 22

A Trip to the Moon

—HIGHLY COMMENDED.— This morning 1 got a letter in the post. It said, “Be ready at nine tomorrow morning, at Shady Lane.” So I was ready at nine. There was an aeroplane, and a little dwarf who said, . “Jump in.” I did, and he disappeared, and the aeroplane started. I ran down the steps till I came to a room. It was a bedroom, and then at the other side was a dining room. I went into it and looked down on earth. We were now up in the sky and far from home. It seemed a very short time till I grew hungry, and looked in every cupboard, and at last I found some sausage rolls, and bread. All afternoon I looked out the window, feeling very lonely, and longing for some one to play with, or talk to. At last the time came when it was time to go to bed, and I went feeling tired and lonely. It went on the same way, till one day when I found some toys in one cupboard. There was a big teddy bear, with a red ribbon round its neck, and there was a doll and a game. I played with them till one day, the plane stopped and I got out and I was at the moon. There was a man who said he was in charge of it. I stayed with him for a good while. He showed me how he lighted the moon every night, and how the stars bowed and called it their Queen. One day he said he had his holidays, so I went to stay with the stars. They taught me to dance. But one day a terrible creature came, and al! the stars ran away home, and he took me to his house. Then one day he took me and threw me away. I lay there for days, till I fell again to earth, and when I woke up I found myself on the floor beside my bed. It had been a dream. —2 marks to Cousin Nanette Sumpter (9), 32 Alice street. —HIGHLY COMMENDED.— I had such a strange dream. I was flying through the air, which was crisp and cool and keen. I held my arms out, and tied to each there seemed great fluttering pieces of silk. Everything was black—black—until light ahead, what was that? A tiny light gleamed. I flew on. The light grew bigger and brighter, and it dawned on me that I was flying to the moon. The light of it fairly dazzled jne, and I flew straight to it. I crawled over the edge, and walked over a dazzling shiny orange world. Everything I met was the same colour as this New World, bright, dazzling orange. The streams, the mountains, rivers and all were frozen, and so were the inhabitants. I came to a great black pit. Unconscious of it, I slipped over the edge. I fell down, down, down, in the darkness and woke up, a few inches from earth. Thus ended my dream of “A Trip to the Moon.” —2 marks to Cousin Ray McLeay (13), Otahu, Otautau-Blackmount R.D. —HIGHLY COMMENDED.— One night as I lay snuggled in my bed, I was awakened by a bright light shining on my face, as a moon-beam fairy entered, and asked if I would like, a trip to the moon. I said “Yes.” Jumping out of bed, and donning my dressing gown, I immediately followed. After we had climbed a moon-beam, she took me to see the Queen, who was riding in a golden moon-boat. She told me to ride with her until dawn. We sat down and talked till Mr Sun looked out of the blankets, and the boat yanished, and I woke up, expecting to

be in the moon, but I found I was in my bed. It was all a dream. —2 marks to Cousin Brida Cody’. (11), Otahuti R.D., Sec. 2, InvercargUL. *