"DAPHNE" OF THE OLD BRIGADE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 138, 13 June 1931, Page 16 (Supplement)

"DAPHNE" OF THE OLD BRIGADE

Dear Wendy, Here is another Ite of the Old Brigade. I suppose you have forgotten me, so I shall put my name at the top and perhajis you may remember me. T do not have much time for writing letters :u> 1 am studying for my proficiency this year. Would you please find me a girl pen-friend, about 13 or 14 years old, who will please write first? Our gardens look very bare and it is hard to find any (lowers for the vases. I am saving Bournville cocoa coupons and need only four more. Well, dear Wendy, as it is late I shall have to stop. With tons of love. From "DAPHNE.” Hunterville. Bravo, dear! So here you are with us iji our merry Land of Letters at last. I could not help but think you had forgotten us. No, I had not forgotten you. I do hope you will gain your proficiency. You will let ma know how you succeed eventually, won’t you ? I will see if I can get you a pen-friend. There are but few flowers now. Never mind, the spring will soon be here again. Perhaps some of our Ites can supply the wanted coupons.—Wendy. "MY CARPET" (Copied by "Red and Brown.") know a pretty carpet That anyone may tread ; It’s made of grass and slender stein.-, I And many a flower head. It has a coloured pattern Of yellow, white and green. For buttercups and daisies On every side are seen. And when the wind blowa softly The flowers bend and toss, And little waves sway up and down. And sweet scents blow across. My carpet is r meadow Beneath a sky of blue. Ami every year in spring-time The patterns grows anew.