CHILDREN S CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XI, Issue 50, 16 December 1893, Page 527

CHILDREN S CORRESPONDENCE COLUMN.

Dear Cousin’ Kate.—l am glad you put my letter in. I hope I am not writing too soon again, but you said you would like to bear about the chickens. I have a little brown hen, and we gave her 13 eggs to sit on. When we came to look the next day she had only 7. What do you think had become of them ? We couldn’t tell. Just when these seven were chickens a white hen which we suspected had a nest somewhere appeared with 14 chickens, and six of them were my little Brownie’s. She had taken away the eggs to a snug little nest of her own quite close to where Brownie was sitting. Wasn’t it cool! I hope you will put this in.—Your loving cousin, Mollie. [I think you should claim those six chicks, Mollie. They really belong to your hen, do they not ? That white hen was what the Yankees call * cute. ’ I hope your chickens •will all live.—Cousin Kate.

Dear Cousin Kate.—l hope all the cousins are quite well. A long time ago you asked all the cousins to send their photographs. 1 have sent mine. I shall be ten on the 16th December, 1893. Answer to riddle, December 2nd : (1) ‘None, because they are all outside.’ (2) ‘Her pocket.’ (3) ‘To get to the other side.’ Here are some sums to guess : ‘ From six take nine ; from nine take ten ; from forty take fifty. Each sum has a remainder. —Your loving cousin, Wilbert. [1 did not find a photograph in your letter, only a sketch of yourself (I suppose), by yourself (I feel sure). Ido not think any of your relations would recognise a likeness, but still as you send it as your picture, I have much pleasure in putting it in the paper. I have not put your name under it, because I feel sure you have not done yourself justice. At least you appear to have a very old head for such young shoulders. Do you often make caricatures of people?— Cousin Kate.