BETWEEN ourselves

Southland Times, Issue 24355, 8 February 1941, Page 9

BETWEEN ourselves

If there is an answer to your letter in Between Ourselves you are entitled to one mark for the degree of Writer of Letters (W.L.). For tins degree 50 marks are needed.

Cousin Sonja Henie: You must be an expert knitter if you can make a jumper suit for yourself. Have you made many pairs of mittens? I hope you hear from the Australian pen-friend soon. You must write and tell me about it. Thank you for the jumbled names. Cousin Anne Friend: A few days like the one you described can make a very happy holiday. Did Santa Claus visit you on Christmas Eve? What class are you in this year at school? Cousin Harbottle: I hope you will be coming to town soon, and then you will visit me and show me the coins you received for Christmas. What else have you bought with your salary? Cousin Flower-o’-the-Lily: Your letter to me was more interesting than the one for the competition, so I felt tempted to enter

the wrong one- However, the other way was your choice, so I have left it. Have you any new records? Cousin Coronation Lassie: Percy Pencil has written your pen-name so often that he had no difficulty in remembering it when you forgot to sign it. If you eat too many gooseberries you may grow to look like one. and what will mother say then! Cousin Joyce Black: You were luckier than most people, for you had two holidays, where other people have to be content with one. If you write often this year you will soon have a degree to write after your na Cotisin Hinemoa: Y’our long letter arrived

and I knew that the new year for the Chronicle had really begun. Can you find the letter on this page? Cousin Robin Redbreast: The train must have been carrying a big load of holidaymakers to be so late. A holiday in the open air, out in the country or on the beach is the very best kind to have. Best for your first year at secondary school. Cousin Goggles: Did you wish you had a magnet with you when you dropped the tacks? Have you found names for the pup and the kittens? Are you keeping all oi the kittens? Your neat letter has earned a mark for you this week. Marks may be carried on from one year to the next (except Mind Sharpeners), and you may write until your seventeenth birthday. Cousin May Cameron: In your next lettei you must tell me more about your holiday, what you did in Dunedin, and how you enjoyed yourself. Your poem is in the Original Verse this week. Cousin Nancy Shivas: You have forgotten your pen-name, and the long holiday has made me forget it too. Your new pen will be very useful for your week-end writing of entries and letters. Do you mean to work hard this year?

Cousin Isabel: It would be difficult for anyone to enjoy a holiday more than you did, judging bv the description in your letter. My holiday was a happy one too. but I am' also happy to be back again at work on the Chronicle.

Cousin lan: I am sure the sun shone for your holiday and you came back a much browner person than when you went. Did you go for many bathes?: Cousin Lily-of-the-Valley: Your holiday letter did not arrive in time for the Chronicle this week, so the letter I am answering now is the one you wrote at Christmas time. Have you heard from your pen-friend recently?