LITTLE PEOPLE’S LETTERS

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 12 December 1891, Page 691

LITTLE PEOPLE’S LETTERS

Dear Cousin Kate, —We are going to have a holiday on Thursday for the Agricultural and Pastoral Show. We had such a line day for our last holiday. lam in the Fifth Standard at school. We had our examination in September. I passed in Mr Riley’s drawing examination, ami I got the only excellent in our school. Dear Kate, one night my sister Lily, my cousin Bessie, and myself were coming down a road when we met a herd of bullocks. It was a rather narrow road, ami not very near to any house, so we just had to run. Lily ran down a little road that branches off the big one. I followed her, and thinking that I saw an opening in the ha« thorn hedge, I tried to jump through it, but I found myself stuck. Bessie had managed to climb a bank on the other side of the road. It was a long time before we got home. I am glad that you put my stoiies in print.—Alice Willis. Montecillo, Johsonville. [Thank yon for your nic° little letter, Alice. I hope you will write again. lam glad yon escaped from the bullocks. —Cousin Kate.]

Dear Cousin Kate.—We took a nest which had four little blackbirds in. line of them jumped out, and we could not find it again. The other three we took into the kitchen and put them on the table. The cook was very kind; she put a wire cover over them and a duster. One tried to fly on to the floor, and hurt himself somehow, at least he died by morning. The other two we put in a box and hung it near the tree. The father and mother birds came and fed them. The next afternoon we made a better sort of cage, with wire in front—quite a jolly one. The old birds were so silly. They perched in front on the shelf we put for them with worms in their mouths, and though the little ones chirped like anything, they Hew away without feeding them. Weren’t they stupid ? So the little birds died, and I had to bury them in my new cemetery for animals because the old one is quite full. It has a kitten and two birds. The new one has about three birds and a frog.—Your loving cousin, Willie. [Yours is a capital letter, Willie. I am afraid you are very unlucky with your birds. lam always glad to hear fiom the cousins.—Cousin Kate ]‘