Just Two Whole Blackberries!
“THINK OF THAT AFTER ALL MY TROUBLE,” SAYS “LAUGHING WATERLADY’S SWEETHEART Dear Wendy, I think it is about time 1 wrote again. It is a nice sun shiny morning, and the sun is drying this through the window as I write; so that I do not have to use blotting paper. Evidently Mr. Weather Clerk is feeling very kindly disposed towards the world in general, and is giving us some real summer weather at last. Yesterday, Wendy, I had a very "prickly time" blackberrying, as I suppose you guessed. I was told that there was some large, juicy ones down the cliff towards our recreation grounds; so armed with a huge pre serving pan I set off. To begin with the path down the cliff is very dusty and slippedy, and the wire usually attached to the top of the cliff to told on to as you go down was missing. I thought I would have to go back, but did not like to without, any blackberries. I sat down and slid right to the bottom. After all this trouble I discovered the track at the bottom of the cliff to be all wet ana muddy. I placed my foot on it to see if it was tov wet to go over, when horror of horrors my foot sank right down, and the mud went right over my ankle. On my journey back up the cliff 1 discovered two blackberries. Think of that, Wendy! Just two after all my trouble! ! ! It was harder getting up the cliff than getting down, so at last I had tG leave my jar stuck in the blackber-' lies, and scramble up without it. When I reached the top 1 heaved a sigh of relief, and vowed that I would never go there again. Well, Wendy, 1 think this has taken up nearly all my space, so I will close now. Wishing you lots of luck from—"LAUGHING WATERLADY’S SWEETHEART," Wendydell. 1 am heartily disappointed with the Weather Clerk after the way he has acted of late. When one thinks some summer days have arrived along comes more wind and generally disagreeable conditions. I cannot understand this summer season at all. Oh, but what an adventure you had seeking those blackberries. I can imagine how disgusted you must have felt. Ever so many thanks for the poem. 1 like it immensely.—Wendy.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 37, 13 February 1937, Page 12
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