SAND CASTLES.

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 138, 7 December 1929, Page 22

SAND CASTLES.

You are sure to. play sand castles while- you are on holiday by the sea, that is, if you are lucky enough to be staying where theTo is a sandy shore. And when yon play your castles one morning you might as well make a game with them, getting the little chums you have made on holiday, to join in. The idea is to make half a dozen castles in a row with your pail. They must be about four inches apart, and to play the game you sit or stand at a given point ..:. few yards back, and bowl the ball towards the openings between tlio- sand castles. • The idea, you see, is for the ball not to knock over a castle. If it does it scores ten points against you. But each time you bowl the ball through the alley between the castles then it scores a point for yon. I-expect you'll all find yourself with some points minus at the end of this jolly game; ■ '■■"■' ■■■"'

"POOR FISH." But there is much that Is deplorable in every country—and New Zealand Is content to follow the England of its heart. The "Talkies" have thrust upon us many curious phrases which may easily becomo our own. hut ploase Heaven, we never drop the beauty of our language for the street Jargon of ajiother. ' "Den" has; written a sot of clever verses that are surely more than a warning! • '..'.'.: . . We Btudy.evßrythins you do; Wewantfo; be reel: proper guys. Say, Uncle, teach us how to chew, And how to make a good home-brew. And r look ;r«ei; he-men. In. your eyes. OJi, Afaboy/r .Wb want to be A; right one hundred plus per cent. • American, an' white an' free, With Hollyood's efficiency, And, like it, wiso and opulent. We're here to say we got a hunch ■ We're reel go-getters if we try. . We want to tie-up with your bunch, An! learn.to eat a one-arm lunph, • j: - An' be like any other guy. > We sot no Ideals of our own, -No guidino-.»tar to draw us on. '' 'Wore Jusf '.pogr muifs wlieh left alone, ■Who only sit around an'moah -Things like "Goldarn it!" an' "Doj- - ' ■'■• gone!" ■ -■• : - ' \Ve're flcttin' wise to all your speech. WH Bdtta have a mentor, shu-er. : Aw,:teach us, Uncle, how to reach : For deftly...: -Sit. an' teach Those poor fish to- bi stronn—but " piier. " ■'.'.-' ■".' -. ."•'. I