Oh, The “JAY” Is Discovered!

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 276, 21 November 1936, Page 12

Oh, The “JAY” Is Discovered!

IDENTITY NOT TO BE ID A EALED "LOVER OE ELOWER.S" RECOUNTS ALARMING EXPERIENCE. lion Woklv II is only I. "Lover ol J* lowers," so don't shoo me out again, will you? I am feeling very 11 iumpinint ;>s i l.ive discovered the ".lays" identity .it last but have no fear ".lay" as I p'omiscd not to betray von. ' cs, "Jay" I lie branches have been out off the tree and you won l see me perched up (here aca-.i. You won’t expect to have any plums | thrown at you next, season now. will | >’Oii? We had our s-uiool concert o i August IS in i;; « immersion Opera I House. The mumps have !)°cn <•< inc | around in Buds, but I am pleased t<« say that 1 haven’t been one of the unfortunate victims who have had them and 1 don’t hope to be cither. Hou would be “down in the dumps as well as down with the mumps,” I wouldn’t \ou? as I heard that they j are very painful. 1 had quite an exciting lime rec-nlly and 1 must have jroused up hall the neighbourhood I from their sleep. 1 mu. I admit that I didn’t thing it was exciting at the [time but 1 don’t think I will ever forget the experience I had and it will teach me a lesson in future. I had an old signal ring, which 1 had since I was eight, but it was too small for my 3rd. ling, r and a lrille large for my lilt in finger, so I didn't wear it. as mother gave mo a now signal ring. Anyhow I got the idea into my head that I wanted to got this old ring on to my third finger. After a great struggle I got it on hut then when it came to getting it off again -well, it was a totally different matter’ I trio! with soap and water for ano.it trrooquarters of an hour and do you think I could gel, it off? My linger had swollen up terribly and was lurnng a purple colour and I was 100 scared If) tell mother, but I told her in the end. and she was frightened if I leh. it like thtil until morning I would got, blood-poison as it kept on swelling ■•o I had to rouse up “Laughing 'A al erlady’s" lather and I am afraid half the neighbourhood was disturbed. They wondered what was up as it wa» about 11 p.m. He filed the ring of* for me and thought it a great joke. Anyhow I have learnt a lesson and ’•'ill think twice before I do a thing like that again. “Stranger's Daughter” I must thank you very much lor the compliment you paid Io me. and also thanks for the congratulations, “Madcap.” 1 am rather late in saying .so, but better late than never. Yes, it is rather a pleasure Io be alongside you and it makes me feel flat • tered. Well, Wendy. T suppose you are beginning Io think that I urn like “Tennyson’s Brook" and beginning to wonder when I am going to slop. A passenger on the service car wanted me to write io “Sail on Sunshine. I did so to please her and also honing that it would (hear him up a bit. It was very thoughtful of her io ask me though, wasn't it? Well I had better draw this to a conclusion and can imagine you giving a sigh of relief and saying, “thank goodness, al last’” Well, cheerio for now, Wendy dca**. and please excuse the scrawl. Best of love to you all. Your true-blue Ito - ’ LOVER OF FLOWERS." C.S.W.M., Bulls. Oh, dear, you mean to say that you have really discovered our lte'« identity? What a flutter there will be now. I am pleased, though, you intend to keep the secret to yourself. Goodness, but your experience with lhe ring must have alarmed you a good deal.—Wendy.