"OCCIDENT'S" EPISTLE AND REQUEST

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 150, 27 June 1931, Page 5 (Supplement)

"OCCIDENT'S" EPISTLE AND REQUEST

Dear Wendy,—lt’s a fortnight or more now since you re heard from me, so I’m going to annoy you further with more of my ramb“Phantasy,” I’ve at last ferreted around and discovered your identity. Didn’t you have a brother who, when at school, was knick-named after one of the characters from ..Qu- n ® lm,nortal story, “Pickwick Papers"— Shiny Williams ? And now about that Taihape G'dly. Evidently our Taihape Ites arc of a shy disposition, or else were out of town, as the only one I met was “Queen of Hearts.” 1 wa.i quite embarrassed by the searching looks from several people, but they were too shy to speak. "Pixie,” why didn’t you make yourself known? And “Clematis,” too, who says she saw me at the rally tea. You may be assured, “Clematis,” that with the table bending under such a mass of eatables I would be too occupied to notice who was sitting four /y-t away! By the way, Wendy, don’t you think we had a suitable greeting from our senior class? Each class had to read a verse before tea by way of a greeting. Ours found in Hebrews 13:2 was (I must say aptly) "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels in disKU '. B ?,’ Quite suitable, was it not? “BiNai,’ am I right when I say that your nonide plume is a North American Indian word, the English of which means “Brother”? “Madcap,” with all your accounts of “awful moments,” I would sell them all to “Sweetacres.” I’m sure they’d suit admirably for their famous ads., “It’s moments like these I you need Minties.” "Orient" will. I’m sure. ! be overwhelmed with the honour Richard C. de L. has bestowed in asking him to blow out the fourth candle on the cake. I’ve had no word from him of late, but I expect one at any date now. I suppose he’s a busy man now, but I’m sure not too busy to inform us about his welfare. As for me following the lead. You’re on the wrong track. I’m like the gentleman who. gifted with poetical brains in surrendering his all to a young lady had cause to remark, “I wish I were a little pebble on the beach of your heart.” and was met with the sweet reply. “And I wish you were a little bolder (boulder)." That’s me I I’m glad to see so many of the “Old Brigade” returning to the ranks. It’s to be hoped that they have “fallen in” for keeps now. Wendy. I have 20 Player’s Please certificates. I wonder if any Itc would like them in exchange for 15 ArdeT or 15 Silver Fern. Well. Wendy, as tlus is only to he a short note I will close (I can hear you sighing “Thank voodness") for now. With best of regards, - From “OCCIDENT.” Raetihi. Oil. so you have discovered our “Phantasy’s” identity? Bravo! 1 am pleased you spent such a happy time at the rally. Fancy our Taihape Ties displaying such shyness. I've no doubt but thnt the famous slogan of the Mintie people passed throtigh our “Madcap’s" mind when she decided upon a title for her series of articles. It is fine indeed to have so many of the Old Brigade with us. I. too. hone they will “stay put.” as a favourite expression of “Madcap's” has it? I'll see if the exchange can be made.—Wendy.