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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 22 December 1906, Page 39

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COUSINS’ BADGES. Cousing requiring badges are requested to send an addressed envelope, when the badge will be forwarded by return mail. COUSINS’ CORRESPONDENCE. D<ar Cousin Kate, —I hope you are Well. Thank you very much for the badge; but one of my sisters lost the eyes out of it. \We are going to break up school in two more weeks. Yes, the girl that Wrote before is my sister. We are all looking forward to the Christmas holidays. I Mke rowing in boats. Our dgg Joe bites our own hens. We have pKMy of eggs, and we do not eare. We Shah kegp him, because he will bite the p»tple stealing*cur eggs and fruit. There xwre twelve in our family, but one died. If you come here you will only see hot springs and geysers and the mountains. I must conclude, with best wishes. —I remain, yours truly, TAI. [Dear Cousin Tai,—l am sorry you don’t like the red badge as well as the blue, but if you had told mew hich colour you wanted at first I would have sent it to you; in faet, 1 wish when you write for badges all of you would say what colour you want. What are you going to do in the holidays, just row' round and" enjoy yourselves? Don't you fed sorry for the hens when Joe is let loose? It seems rather cruel to them to let them be bitten like that. AH the same, I wish we had a dog that would bite small boys because they steal all our fruit every year. What a number of you there are; I thought we were bad enough, but there are only' six of us. Don-t you think it is worth while going all that way just to see hot springs, geysers, and the mountains? —Cousin Kate.] . 4- + + Dear Cousin Kate, —You sec my thumb is not in working order yet, though it is certainly much better. It was rather badly crushed, and nearly broken; the big gate swung to and l caught it. .Mary was quite upset over her short letter, and she says it is all my fault. You see, she would typo hers because I was typing mine, and as I had to superintend and space for her, 1 found it a very tedious process, and naturally cut it as short as possible. Judging from the scorn with which she rejected the services of the typewriter and myself. I should think you would have a whole budget from her next time. I did enjoy Cousin Winnie’s Exhibition letter, and Cousin Hero’s book-letter. We are going down to the Exhibition in January; ami I am now looking forward to seeing the lovely fernery. 1 am sure you will like “The Hoad Mender,” by Michael Fairless. As Hero says, it is beautiful. I have not read ” Hound the World on a Wheel,” but I found “Canada as it is” very interesting. Have you read “ The Princess Passes”? I like it so much, and would like to read more by the same author. But one cannot always be very sure. ) liked “ The Prisoner of Zenda,” and its sequel very mueh. but when J read others by Anthony Hope I did not like--them at all; "The Servant of the Public, ’> " Quisante,” ami "The Intrusions of Peggy.” Do- you care for gardening, Cousin Kate?. Mary

and I have each a garden, but 1 am afraid mine is rather neglected. I do not seem to get much time for gardening. Alary has a splendid show oi carnations. lam getting very tired. lam not used to using the typewriter, so I must stop now.—You loving cousin. (’(INSTANCE. 4* 4* [Dear Cousin Constance.- I am sorry your hand is not better. h must Irave been dreadfully painful. I can understand Mary’s disgust. because what you think is quite a long letter looks dreadfully short in print. I have often been annoyed in the same way. However. I am looking forward to her budget, and hope it will come soon. Cousin Winnie’s . letter did make one long to go down and sen all the Exhibition for oneself, didn’t it? How you will enjoy your trip. I have read “ The Princess Passes.” and most of C. N. Williamson’s other books, and liked them very much; the best of them all 1 think is “The Barnstormers.” J am sure you would enjoy it immensely., too. I often wonder how a man who could write such a good book as “ 'rhe Prisoner of Zenda,” could ever write su< h rubbish as some of his other books are: “The Heart of the Prince Osra.” for instance. I have been working hard in the garden lately, but don’t enjoy it very much.— Cousin Kate.]