ENJOYING THE HOLIDAYS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 661, 14 January 1933, Page 18 (Supplement)

ENJOYING THE HOLIDAYS.

Dear Aunt Hilda, —Thank you ever so much for the Eversharp pencil and the greetings, and I wish you the very same. I have just arrived from the Scout camp, and I am brimming with news. At the camp was a donkey, and we used to sit on it and get bucked off. One boy went into some Scotch thistles; he did feel sore. I forgot to tell you where the camp was situated; it was on Mr Johns's farm, Belfast. We had good bathing in the Waimak. There was a patrol competition, and our patrol won it. The prize was a flag. We rose at six in the morning, and went to bed at approximately nine-thirty. I am writing to Reg in the North Island. I am also sending him some books. I have just received a letter from an ex-Scout In Canada, and I received some stamps from him. I am going to get an address of a Boy Scout in England. I got my profic- , iency, and I am going to High School next year. Now and again the boy next door and I go for small hikes. With our packs on our backs, away we light-heartedly tramp, whistling “ Hike Along, Hike Along,” We met with an amusing incident the other day. We were tramping home along Council Road, when suddenly my mate yelled out, Look ! A rabbit! ” Sure enough it was, there in the middle of the road, staring suspiciously at us. L Then off it darted, with us in full ■ chase. Could we corner that rabbit? No. I think our heads were too full ’ of the thought of rabbit pie. Well, Mrs Rabbit had another narrow shave. At the Spit the other day we saw hun4reds of small soles and flounders. I i must now close as it is bedtime. Goodi bye.—l remain, one of your happy family, Alex MackrelL ! e a ® m sr@ h is h s h h h h s h m h h m