AN OUT-DOOR BRAVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 13, 6 April 1927, Page 5

AN OUT-DOOR BRAVE

The following is an extract from a letter to Redfeather: I think it a splendid idea to have a club for the “Hobbly-hoy” boys and gir.’s. You know there are clubs for the very young ones, for the “Little bit older ones,” and then there is a big jump to the very old ones and so the boys and girls from 15 to 20 are left out altogether. I love outdoor life and everything belonging to nature. I am never better pleased than when I am wandering along through the bush or perhaps breaking my own track through some very heavy bush. Our family goes camping at the beach for about three months every Christmas, and we have a wonderful time—out fishing one day, away gathering ferns another day, then perhaps cruising our way from bay to bay in our little boat. Every morning we waken with the feeling: “I wonder what will happen to-day?” We have three big tents—two bedrooms and one kitchen—and mother does all the baking in a large camp oven, and you should just see the dinners she cooks for five of us. She always says that we eat enough while we are down in camp to last us the rest of the year. My dad is a great wireless man, so he took his five-valve Radiola down this year. Every evening we would light a big fire on the beach and dad would tune it. My word! before we knew where we were it was bed time! WING PLUME.