ROUND THE CAMP FIRE

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 26

ROUND THE CAMP FIRE

it was during the Christmas jjolidar and we were touring. We had »>*•■ Irving to reach a certain hotel \ nightfall, but we had engine troarand were stranded on a little B* •* road, clad on either side with owj arid as it was now dusk father ® he would have to wait until • before be could do anything u> engine of the car. . We took the cushions off arid covered them with the coa , rugs for beds, then built a n . boil the billy for tea. As even * fell we watched the sunset trailing their cloud robe , sky—flames, and gold, and cn _ piling mistily against the delici of the west. Then twilight and ness came down and we looked over the sleeping hill to the • ribbon of road and the sh shimmer of the moonlit bay be The pale moon began its the heavens as the first star app«* shivered, then sent abroad h® to little rays. After that »ey pop out one by one and »mil« ® upon the dark earth. now falling with remarkable taking the most weird and j c4 jc, shapes as they stretchedl tn tapering fingers toward the drew together round the ■ 6 while Daddy told us tales, tne« began to grow late we trooped Unless you have spent a nigbt the stars you will 11 ever Q the feeling of solitude' that one. • j iratCi» eC On my camp-bed 1 lay . ft \ the sparks of the dying ~ tvoul<* ** j.lmost began to wish, they jefi die out, but they did, and t jj e *£ under a canopy of stars, w moon rays stealing through ling trees making queer, shapes on the ground. thnd&* Presently I heard the dull. * : whirr of wings as an ow in search of prey, and ata r . r .j-d call of “Mor-r-re pork! pork ! ” . erO* & At last things be f' an f to e / o ff to-' ][ became drowsy and drltt L-and of Rest. beaut? f I shall never forget the that delightful night under —Jessie Milne, Birkenhead A ZOO GAME Get pictures of all can; cut them out and pas** . cardboard. uni P® Then have a basket or -I-? ' all the animals inside- w divide them as they com . ther e player, round and us t fca no more. But each pla>er the same number ol ar ;;™ . 0 f pa^. Each person has a J" -gate and has to write down the animal, and the one — 0 xo gi.names right has the prm • lot* interesting, you should ‘ t uncommon animals, n oU jjjt ; and cats, and pigs. And n - tben V have different sorts of ‘"’Vdos*', right name for each sor t o *3' be put down; it wont do J i “dog,” you know.