THE TRAWLER
®y Cicely Fraser, Christchurch; 14 years)
In Akaroa, when the silver light over the hills at dayand the sea is grey, the £wl 6r turns her bows with a cerrestlessness toward the open Solnewhere up the hillside a cock ®K>Ws. jjjg cry high-pitched, !S e the day. The gulls wheel hut ecstasy over the wharf, un i*? * ime the sun has sidled «ea «•?!_ heavens, flecking the anc * other folk are breakfast, the trawler fe. ii,,. "®yond« the heads, wallowing we swell. as^l 6 « Passes lighthouse, quivers Droi» =^5 een j waves boil about her s&rav renc hing sheet of saltfishJrmt l g over her bows. The Q «rxaan stands, pipe in mouth,
and he knows that none sees the beauty of the sunrise better than he, for what finer than the sea in the freshness of early morning?
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21410, 28 February 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)
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