LITTLE PEOPLE’S LETTERS

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 5, 30 January 1892, Page 119

LITTLE PEOPLE’S LETTERS

SOLUTIONS OF PUZZLE STORY—‘THE NAUGHTY BOY.’ Dear Cousin Kate.—One day Mr Jones went out to water the street. He had got the hose ready, but the water would not come out. Just then he heard a laugh, and he turned around and saw a boy standing on the hose. (No. 2) ‘ Get off,’ he shouted, shaking his fist at the boy, but the boy only laughed at him. (No. 3) Just then Mr Jones saw a policeman coming along, but the boy did not see him. (No. 4) The policeman caught the boy by the collar and lifted him off the hose, and the water went into the policeman’s face and knocked him down and knocked his teeth out Then Mr Jones turned it off' in another direction. — Belle Allen, aged nine years. [I a,m so glad, Belle, you tried to answer the puzzle. Your idea is very nearly right.—COUSIN Kate.] Dear Cousin Kate.—l am going to try and answer those four pictures you put in the Graphic. A naughty little boy one day went outside, and seeing a man watering his garden, he stood on the hose unobserved. When the man went to water his garden he could not get any water out. \V hen he turned round and saw the boy standing on the hose he shook his hand at him, and the boy jumped off' again. When the man started to water the garden again the boy got on the hose again, and a policeman, who had been watching him, came and caught hold of his shoulder, and the man turned round to see what was the matter, and poured the water all on to the policeman’s face. I think this is all, so 1 will say good-bye. lam eleven years old.— Nina. Ashburton. [Yours is a very nicely-written letter, Nina, only it is not the garden which is being watered. The rest is good.— Cousin Kate.]