CORRESPONDENCE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 113, 13 December 1873, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Our columns are open for free discussim; but we do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions of our Correspondents.] Dear Mr. Editor,— l went to the children’s treat last night there were a great many boys and girls there. Papa had told me three days ago that if I were a good boy, I should go, and that all the httle boys and girls would get cake and tea, and that when tes was over we were all to put our hands into a bag and take out a ticket, and that by and by each of us were to get some one of the nice things that would be hung upon the Christmas Tree, and that there would be great fun. “

So I tried veiy hard to be a good boy all the time, and I think I was for papa and mama allowed me and my little sister to go, and when tea was over I did so hope I would get a trumpet, and my little sister got a doll, and my little sister wished that I would get a trumpet too. Oh, there were such a lot of nice things upon the tree ; I could not count them all, but 1 am afraid I was two little or something for I never was to put my hand into the bag at all, nor my little sister and we got nothing at all off the tree tho’ I saw less boys than I am with trumpets afterwards. Mr. Editor can you tell me the reason, because my papa says he don’t know; but that if I write to you perhaps you can tell me ? Pupa says that the ladies told him all the children would be treated all alike.—Yours, &c., Edward. Gisborne, November 12,1873.