COUSINS’ CORRESPONDENCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLIII, Issue 23, 8 December 1909, Page 58

COUSINS’ CORRESPONDENCE.

Dovedale. EAR COUSIN KATiE, 1 a in- in I k the fourth standard, and am thirI teen years old. I would like to i'LJL X become one of your cousins. lam ‘ v -—Z just learning to shoot out of the - shotgun, and I have shot several rabbits. 1 know Cousin Merle. 1 attend the Same tivhcol. We have just had our tea-party. iMy prize was called ‘ Sought and Saved.” Please send me a blue badge.— I remain, yours truly, Cousin WIN. (Dear Cousin Win, I would like to have you for a cousin immensely, and, having got you, I hope we shall keep you, so please jt>e sure how you aim, and don't get shot How interesting that you know Vousin Merle, and attend the same school. •The name of Dovedale is getting to be as familiar to me as the name of my own road. Your prize sounds very interesting. .Write again soon. —Cousin Kate.] P.S.— Is Cousin Merle your cousin or a member of your family?—C.K. £ i 1 Parnell. Dear Cousin Kate, — How are you? I hope you are quite well. My pet hen, Brownie, has ten little chicks, out of thirteen eggs, and we have four little ducks out of eleven eggs. The lien is very clumsy with the ducks, and stands on them, and she has killed three. 1 am putting six roses in the li«»w<*r show, and I hope I get a prize. I think we get a holiday on Friday, because its flower show day. On the King's birthday I went over to the for a picnic with my mother and father and another little girl I knew. We had a lovely time, and we dug for pipis. and cooked them on the beach. We used to live there; 1 do not remember, though.- With love from Cousin ESSIE. (Dear Cousin Essie,—l was reading the prize list of the flower show to-day, but d>id not notice your name, though I wag looking to see if I had any cousins there. 1 hope you got a prize. Isn't there a difference in hens? Some are such careless mothers; they are not to be trusted with their broods. Small ducks arc so very sweet. I can quite understand the little boy in one of Jean Ingclow’s poems who wanted “a little duck to take to bed with me.”. P+pis are delicious, ami, anyway, things cooked out of doors and ea’ten at picnics are ever so much jollier than ordinary mealtimes, aren't they; only the tea's nearly always horrid.—Cousin Kate. | I’.S. Thank you for your kind Inquiries. I am looking forward to a holiday by-and-t>y. C.K. * * i Wharerata. Dear Cousin Kate, I was very pleased to see my letter In the “Graphic.’’ I have one brother and one sis’ter. My sister is going to Australia this week. My favourite colour is pink? What is your s?" I have a grey pony, whose name is Jack. I have a post card album, a photograph album, and s postage stamp album. 1 will now conclude. —With love from Cousin IDA. rs. Why is A like honeysuckle? (Dear Cousin Ida. — I am so glad to hoar from you again. You and your brother

will miss your sister, won't you? Even 1n a large family one is missed, much more in a small one. I love pink, too, but 1 think my favourite colours are greens and golds and greys of different tones, for instance, a paddock full of scoria boulders and bracken with the sunset shining through it. But I suppose you don't have scoria boulders in your paddocks. Cousin Ida. You are rich in albums. I can't think why A is like honeysuckle. Oh! I have just thought, because the B comes after it. Is that right, Cousin Ida? —-Cousin Kate.] I’.S.- Give Jack a lump of sugar for me. —<’. K.