FROM A LETTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1043, 6 August 1930, Page 14

FROM A LETTER

Have you ever seen a sun-rainbow — or perhaps it would be more apt to say a “sunbow?” On Friday, Light of Eve and I were sitting on the verandah. The weather was almost like summer, although there were a few light, feathery clouds in the sky. Near the sun they were in ribbed formation, and underneath were in broad white sweeps like those made by a huge pain brush. Presently Light of Eve drew my attention to the fact that the ribbed clouds were coloured. Extending for many feet across the sky they Were the most beautifully-tinted clouds I have ever seen. Blue, green, pink, purple and apricot—all were there, and many other colours besides. They were pale, compared with the colours of a rainbow, it is true, and probably few people noticed them, but they shone like mother-of-pearly, despite the fact that there had been no rain for many days. Even when the clouds merged into a compact mass* the colours still shone there, reluctantly fading after about nine or ten minutes. RED STAR. A CAMPING HINT Pancakes, eggs and bacon, and even small fish can be cooked on a Hat stone by the following method. The stone is covered with burning sticks to make it hot, and the embers are then brushed away and the stone is coated with lard or cooking fat. Treated in this way the stone acts liko a frying-pan and as it retains its lient for a long time very good results are obtained. AN OLD CHURCH St. Martin’s Church in Micklegate. York, lias been keeping its sevenhundredth anniversary. The original church dates from Saxon times and was built of timber; it was associated -with a second church of which the ruins still exist. Although the parish has never had more than 400 people it has given York 2S lord mayors. 28 sheriffs, and three members of Parliament. A PURE ACCIDENT A small boy who had just been rescued from a lake was the centre of a sympathetic crowd. “But how did you come to fall in?” asked a dear old lady. “I d-didn’t.” sobbed the boy, “I c-came to fish.”