BABYLAND

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19941, 27 October 1934, Page 22

BABYLAND

One day I met a lady In a garden cool and shady, Who greeted me with such a merry

At her feet, the flowers were blooming, Overhead, Spring sunshine looming, While around us, birds were singing all the while.

She said, “I went a-riding, As the sun peeped out from hiding, Through Babyland, to while away the

hours

And oh! it was delightful, Though the weather had been frightful! Now the land was sweet with sunshine after showers.

There were baby calves so funny, And a little baby bunny Ran across the fields, towards a hedge

of gorse,

Then I saw proud old Mother

Stand, admiring yet another Young baby thing—the quaintest little horse.

Tail-less lambs I watched at play, In and out, among the hay, Till a more amusing sight then caught my eye. And I saw a speckled hen With her baby chickens ten— Clucking anxiously, as they all hurried by. "

So I checked my horse politely— As the sun shone down more brightly Then turning round, to wend my homeward way, Spied a chubby, dimpled baby, guarded by her sister, maybe; ’Twas the sweetest baby thing I’d seen

that day!” (5 Marks and a Merit Card awarded to Joan Mary Thomson, Timaru.)