“DO YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ANY MORE SUMMER'’ ASKS “WAYBACK TOMMY.”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 12

“DO YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ANY MORE SUMMER'’ ASKS “WAYBACK TOMMY.”

Dear Wendy,—We’re just about flooded out up here, so wurk is an inipossibility just at present. Do you think we are going tu havu any mure summer? I'm sorely afraid .1 have given up hoping for line days now. No doubt you folks in town experienced the heavy storm that has raged all day in this part of the globe. .Just at [Desent, much to our relief (did you hear our sighs?) the sullen sxies have began to clear and the sun is endeavouring to beam down upon us with a watery smile, but we have been driven by the Weather Clerk to Lhe stage of lamenting, so are wondering Just how soon vivid flashes of lightning and terrific claps of thunder will disturb the quietness that reign.* so supremely al ihe time of writing. I am sitting bt side a window writing . this; outside everything looks ever so forlorn and bedraggled. Across the hill, and appearing like a row of on duty the pine trees stand, dark green, and rain-sodden, the creek still rushes with angry swollen waters at, the fool, of the hill and the grass and shrubs that wer<’ battered to the gt'oiind bv (he fiirv of the sweeping gusts of rain essay t M lift their heads from the earth where thev have bern bowed pron 1 , or broken. Evon a skylark flutters forth, ami smio high into the air trilling its sweef'.s! song, and ••‘ver.d mall birds have alighted on the, verandah-rail where they are. busily mi'iipied with task of preening their wet leathers, wilh perfection and grae'. fine small chappie is on the window sill, seeming a.- if his presence their may help io assure, me the tenipe.-t is over and there's hopes of line weather even yet. We are expecting “While Forgel.-.\lo N<H ” up, but I m afraid we are doomed to disap point meat unless the weather [ticks up. Last time she pa.d us a vi.-i: she man-aged—-1 really mean the car managed tew miles down the road, and when they finaly got the 'mobile on solid ground ’twas only to disco 1 . < r their back ik re had punHmod. Though I’m afraid punctured tyres are one of ' ‘ .1. s ’ specialities. V, ,> have a verv v alued If* in out na md, ‘ 'Jn.«t Blue Danube,' ■ have w« no! ? Her letters are very interesting am) unique. Well, leader, just at this niG’inenr, a. verv delicious odour of baked rabbii j< is t uing from the dining room and not even the thought, of the Hut ran entice me to renia'.n here any Imigm-. i hocrio. - l-Tom ‘ W A'i B GK. ! ( >MM.Y,” Brunswick. 1 am ratlior ntraul our summer is over. Just think of it. I have had to light my lite two nights this week. W hat a cold spp]| it has been and so unexjmrted, f uo . There l, ;t . been euormou.-* damage wrought throughout the district by the heavy rains we, have experienced and from reports it. would appear the whole country ha.s suffered in a like manner. Our clan is fortunate indeed to ha\ e so many like our “Jm I Blue Danube,' ’ Womi v. ‘‘R AD lAN T M 0 ON FLO WE R' ’ LEARNS TO SWIM UNDER DIFFICULTIES. Dear Wendy, Here. J. am again turning up like a. bad penny, it’s been raining and blowing like a, hurricane ’so much so that we could, not go to school. We went to the circus and enjoyed Ourselves very much, e.-iiociallv seeing the eiepiianls. They reminded mother of a very nice story abom. an elephant, and if you would care Io have it I will write it for the page. J am in. standard six tins year and I. hope to gain mv proficieucv. \\’e have been trying to learn to swim this vear. \Ve are not as lucky as most children, for the only place we have to swim in is a dam which was made for cattle to drink from. It gets rather muddy at times, but one thing, when we gel tired of swimming, or rather trying to swim we can catch tadpoles, as there arc simply hundred of them. I went up to Ohakune during the holidays, but the weather was not very pleasant. The one fine day we had we went to the sulphur stream and had a lovely picnic. J.l v cousin’s babv set out to enjoy himself. He mixed sand with the sweets and thoroughly enjoyed himself paddling in the water. When the time came to go home he stron'dv objected to leaving the water. Well, as news has run out. [ will close. Best I am so pleased, dear, to have your very welcome letter after your long ab- i sence. 1 would like to have the store. 1 am glad you have been learning to swim, even if under great difficulties. You will always be glad you did in later life. Oh, how funny of the little soul to mix everything up so. Do write again soon, won’t you? Wendv, wishes and love from.KA DI AN T -MOONFLOWER,” C.W.K., TirirauOH, LOOK EVERYONE, HERE IS “MOUSEY McWHISKEB.” Dear Wendy,—l think it is just about time 1 wrote to you again of you will be thinking a big cat has caught me. We have had such wet weather since we started school we have got very wet several limes. It was nice and fine when Worth’s Circus came- to Taihape, so we were able to go and 1 enjoyed it very much. 1 have been Irving to do some of the things the aero bats did, but 1 am afraid 1 will never be able to do what they did. Hasn’t the rain done a l"t of damage? There are slips on the roads here but om thing, we in the high country, escape th-e dangers of floods. We felt very sorry for al! the people who were affected by the tlo-ods. Well, .1 must close now.— Fjoih vou loving Ite “MOUSEY Mr.W'HISKER,” U.W.K., Tiri rauka wa. That is just what 1 had imagined had happened to you, dear, and J was afraid Th-e weather has been really dreadful, hasn’t it. I am pleased you enjoyed the circur. There have been far more slips and much more damage this year than any I can remember. Perhaps the winter will only be a mi'-l one.—AV endy.