Cousins’ Badges.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue VIII, 23 August 1902, Page 503

Cousins’ Badges.

Cousins requiring badges are requested to send an addressed envelope, when the badge will be forwarded by return mail. 4> + <• COUSINS’ CORRESPONDENCE. Dear Cousin Kate, —We are all very pleased to hear - that the Coronation is coming off on Saturday, August 9th. Our school has sent a challenge to the Waimamaku school for a game of football, and we are going to play in a fortnight’s time, and I hope we will win. We are having very good weather here now. As there is no news to tell you I must close this short note. With love to all the cousins, I remain, yours truly, Cousin Newton.

[Dear Cousin Newton, —I hope you had a- good match, and that you won. What other fun did you have on Coronation Day? Tell me all about it next time you write.—Cousin Kate.]

Dear - Cousin Kate,—l was very pleased to see my letter in the “Graphic” last week. It was my father’s birthday yesterday, and he got no end of presents. Are you fond of cats, Cousin Kate? I have a bobtailed cat called Muff, and two bobtailed dogs. I have got a very bad cold. My youngest brother is very good -at spinning yarns. There is going tri be a social in Mangonui next week, given to the postmaster on his leaving,Mangonui. In my last letter I sent a stamped and an addressed envelope for a badge, but not having received it yet. 1 thought it had gone astray. We had some very heavy rain here to-day. News is getting very scarce, so 1 will close with love from Cousin Beryl. [Dear Cousin Beryl,—l am very fond of cats indeed. Have you ever seen a Manx cat, without any tail at all? I used to have two once. They are, I believe, much more rare now, but I don’t know that one need regret that, for they were hideous. The nicest cat I ever had was an Angora. She was very handsomely marked, and had most lovely long fur, which had to be brushed and combed every two or three days. She was a most dignified cat, and would get furious if you tried to tease her or play with her. She just liked to lie on your lap and purr and look handsome.—Cousin

[Dear Cousin Kate, —I suppose all ♦he pictures in the “Graphic” will be referring to the Coronation of His

Majesty. The streets in London will be crowded, and there will be only room for the Royal carriage to pass. There will be a great display of fireworks on Monday night, will there not? That competition that you drew up for the cousins in Auckland was started before I commenced to write to you, and I thought that it was too late for me to start, but I will try next time. It was very good for four of the cousins coming so close to each other, was it not? The fawns are quite tame, but I don’t think that they are particularly fond of bread, although they will eat anything else out of your hand. When anyone comes into the yard they come running up, and if they have nothing for them to eat Billy bunts at them and tries to fight. This will not be very nice for anyone when he has big horns, will it, Cousin Kate? I must now conclude.—l remain, yours truly, Cousin Ernest.

[Dear Cousin Ernest, —It must have been a grand sight in London, as you say. In Auckland things were very quiet, and only at Devonport were the decorations anything out of the way. I took 'some very little children into town in the afternoon to see the flags, hut there were only a very few, and the streets were quite empty, as everyone had gone to football. Thank you for telling us about the fawns. I should think you always took something for Billy, don’t you?—Cousin Kate.]

Dear Cousin Kate, —I don’t remember seeing a picture called “The Last Chapter,” but 1 thought most of them were beautiful. We were shown one at school called “The End of a Song,” and we have to write a composition on it. I have borrowed “The Mill on the J-loss” to read, and I am enjoying it. Somehow the books written by well-known old authors are so different to the new style of book—there is always a great deal more in them. What a dull day Coronation Day was! We went to Campbell’s Point to see the. illuminations, and they really were beautiful. North Shore was a mass of lights, and then we watched the searchlight until it flashed on the Point. It is a grand light, isn’t it? I am afraid it would be too late if I did the puzzles, and sent them in now, but I will try next week. Poor cousins who suffer with chilblains! What a time they must have. 1 luckily never have any, and certainly do not wish to. I will stop now.—With love from Cousin Alison.

[Dear Cousin Alison, —Have you received your souvenir yet? You do not say so, so I fear I may have misdirected it. The North Shore decorations were certainly lovely, and completely cast anything in Auckland into the shade. "The Mill on the Floss” is a splendid story, but it always saddens me. Poor Maggie Tulliver. One feels so sorry for her.— Cousin Kate.]