Under the Totem-Pole

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 7

Under the Totem-Pole

Chiefs and Braves

Letters to Redfeather are answered as under: White Canoe: I was delighted to hear again from this keen GuideBrave and to find that you have won your First Aid certificate and Ambulance Badge. It will not be long now before you go into camp and I am sure you will all have a very happy time. I hope that some of you will be able to get some good photographs, as I should much like some for the Wigwam Page. I 1:: is to all my St. Peter's Braves and wish them good hunting from the Wigwam. Beaver Hunter: Greetings to this Chief, who has now left for far trails. You certainly never do things by halves. I hope you have a happy time on that long trek and that you will keep a record of it for the stay-at-home Chiefs and Braves. Best wishes to our faithful Beaver Hunter. Stout Heart: 1 am delighted th.it you had such an exciting time at the party on New Year’s Eve. It is the one night of all the year when King Carnival comes into his own. Wandering Chief: Many thanks for your cheery letter and New Year gift. It is very kind of you. I am always glad to hear Wandering Chief coming down the trail. Silver Heel: "The Brook of Whispering Waters" makes a delightful Christmas card. Silver Heel. Many thanks for your kind greetings. You will feel quite lost with no Guide meetings to attend each week, but the camp will keep you all in touch with each other. Dew of June: Many thanks for your leter, sped from a far trail. You are certainly keeping your eyes open. Perhaps you will come back with several more poems in that interesting notebook. I hope you tfill find Twinklefoot in her tepee. As yet none of the other Braves have met her. To date I have not heard what prize book she would like for her beautiful poem. “Ships.” but I expect an arrow will come from her shortly. Blue Smoke Sign: I am delighted that you had such a splendid holiday in the South and that you feel so much stronger for the change. What did Big Brown Bog do without his mistress? Little Buffalo: It is good to know that this Chief has now recovered from his sickness. You have not been very fortunate lately, but I hope that better luck will be yours in the coming year. Eagle Feather: Greetings to this

: Chief, who is now an Aucklander. Y -i will find it warmer here than in the South, but you will soon become a. - climatised. Every good, wish from th< I Wigwam. Sunlit Glade : 1 • • ..: gs 1 •' n I to this new Guide-Brave, who has la tel v found her way to the Wigwam I shall always be srlad to meet von ; under the Totem Foie and to have news of your Company. Are you going Harvest Moon: T , has reached me safely. Harvest Me- i and I could just picture that curved moon and the silver moth fluttering in to your tepee. Please tell Silver Win-: that 1 saw her beautiful prize-winning poem, and congratulate her on her su.Little Swift Canoe: It is splendid that you are having such a wondertui | holiday at Tauranga. The sea bathing J should soon make you hardy and ling little tale and it appealed to in greatly. It will not be long before your books are sped on their way M> warmest good wishes to Little Swir ■ Red Star: | you wrote me your first letter of the i New v 1 ; greatly. I. too, saw the old year out and the new year in. armed with a fearsome tom-tom. that to the l*y mind might have appeared nothing more than a big bronze gong. It was excellent fun. I see that tin rambler roses are spilling their glory along th»* ! hedge outside vour window and can just imagine your view c -f them. Fleas. .give my best wishes for the New Yoar to everyone in your tepee. White Beaver: The hand of goodfellowship to this new Chief who has joined our friendly circle. I shall be I looking forward to your next letter and to hearing all about you. Are you I a Scout, and. if so. to which troop do you belong? Lightfoot: You have certainly had an open-air holiday, and I was much in- - terested in your account of that long j swim. Greetings and good wishes Ifrosn the Children of Redfeather. , Shimmering Pool: Many thanks ti ‘ your kind greetings You will be very sorry that there will be no more Guide I meetings for a time. I wonder if your company is going into camp? Did you | ever get into touch with Silver Wing land Harvest Moon? They are the J Brown Owl and Tawny Owl of the ‘ Opawa Pack and are very loyal braves.