COUSINS' CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue IX, 31 August 1901, Page 430

COUSINS' CORRESPONDENCE.

Dear < ousin Kate.— 1 have got a sore Throat, so as I am not allowed to go out I intend to write yon a long interesting letter. Since our school was I .1 rued down the cadets have no place * drill, so every tine Monday they up to Ke! bourne Park and dri :<*:* about an hour, after which t:■<’. arch d awn to school. Last week I was school monitor, and I had n. ink wells ami pick up paper fr< I around the school. On Sunday n. mother's canary woke me ■ p singing; the cage was on a tab’.e -ear my head, so 1 could not go T* - rep again. Dear Cousin Kate. I S'.i >e you saw in last week’s issue o* the "Graphic” about a certain Harry But: who was going out to Singapore in the service of the Easter r. Extension Cable Company. He is my eldest brother. He has been at Cal e Bay. rhe head quarters of the company, for three years, ami he is now home till he leaves for Sydney in the U.S.S. Monowai on the 27th of this month. The Musgrove’s Opera Company arrived here a few days ago. I am much excited over the New Zealand cup. and which team will win it. A friend of mine made a bet with me that \uck and w uldn’t get the cup. xvh: e I made a bet that Otago wouldn’t get it. I had my photograph taken to-day at the American Ar- Studio. The photos are about an ■h and a half square, and you get sixteen for one shilling. I am send- \ -i: a photo of myself taken by n \ br->ther in our back yard with nn amera. You ask for photos of x cousin*. but I am sure that ma of rhem would just as soon see y r< than those of their fellow* c -in.*. Try to put one of yours in t:.r r-xt -- ie. I must stop row as t: e ght i* getting bad. and my **< of talk, if at all interesting. Idl been used up. so I must say !-i«\e. tr.d reiirr:. your cousin - ! »~.ir < < usin Stanley.— 1 hope you ire t: w quite recovered from your * ♦ —. »:.d are up and about again. Y r i» very interesting indeed, a: I rea 1 t with much enjoyment. I k iow several men in rhe Eastern T» graph Extension Company. It i* .« \ * -ry interesting service to be in. Do x P‘ a .' football yourself? T exl»e< ■ *o: almost all nice boys do.— ( • -’n Kate. 1 ♦ + + Dear < ou«in Kate.— I would like very much to become one of your I •• e nfeee« I promise to l>e kind to <! mb animal*. I have three cat*:

their names are Topsy. Kitty, and Black Roy. and 1 have a dear little p. ny. and would you please stive me a name for her.— I remain, your loving friend. Ida White. Oakbourne: aged 10 years. [Pear Cousin Ida. — You are warmly welcome as a cousin. How old are your kitties, and which is favourite? Po you know I think it must be Black Boy. He sounds as if he would be a lively fellow. What colour is the pony? If black I would call her Black Beauty, or if brown Brownie would be nice. Winnie is rather a pretty name. I think. If none of these suit 1 will try and think of another.—Cousin Kate.] + + -iDear Cousin Kate. —1 am going to write you a little letter, and I hope you will like it. I have just got up. as I have a bad cold. It is my birthday next month and I will be S years old. I like looking at the children’s page very much. I must now say good-bye. with love. —I remain. Cousin Gladys. P.S.—Please will you send me a badge? [Pear Cousin Gladys.—Certainly. I like your letter very much, and hope next time you will make it a little longer. It is pleasing to know you like cur special page. I try to make it nice for all.—Cousin Kate.] + + -iDear Cousin Kate.—As I have nothing else to do just now. I thought that I would write you a few lines. We are going to school again, as there was a relieving teacher sent up to us. I was glad to get back to school again, as I would sooner be at school than at home. In a paddock on the way up to our school is a pet foal. It is very rough to play with, and whenever it sees us it always runs up to us. We do not like that, as when it comes near it kicks out and jumps where we are. Generally it cc.mes to meet us. either at the bridge or at the gates. All the children going or coming that way are frightened of it. We have four very tiresome horses here, because this morning and yesterday morning they got in at the oaten stack and ate a lot of oats, and threw a lot of straw on the ground. This morning my sisters and I were up at the stack heaping up the best of the straw, when we found a nest of dear little mice. They were so small, and could not run about very well. Now. dear Cousin Kate. I must conclude, and remain, yours truly. Cousin Bertha. [Dear Cousin Bertha.—What a nice interesting letter you send me this time. I hope none of you will get hurt by that pony: he sounds to me rather dangerous. Could you not get the owner to shut it up in a different field? I expect those other mischievous horses think it grand to pull the stack about, but it is like the boys who used to rob our apple trees; it's not so much what they eat as what they damage in getting it.— Cousin Kate.]