ONE SMALL CROSS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 535, 12 December 1928, Page 18

ONE SMALL CROSS

“PLEASE DON’T TUCH” A little wooden cross, grey and weather-beaten, nestled in the grass of an Epsom garden. The residence had been vacant for some time, but was taken ove.r just recently by a Wellington man and his wife. While cleaning up the garden the man and bis wife suddenly came on the little cross and stooped to examine' it more closely. Both stood for a moment, and thoughts of their own childhood davs came back with a rush. Beside the cross was a tombstone and still legible, in a childish hand, were the TuchT 6ad Bird> Please don't ttvfS' 1 ” 8 OVer lhe tiny grave the V\ ellington man and his wife recon structed the story of how the Tw piobably picked up dead in the - a i- ’ Perhaps? tht en bUr ‘ ed by tiny hands. arS, la h m ° Und 0t liad been covered with flower tiny cross" d thCn the building of a The Wellington man knew in his h * d «" Stout Heart.