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CHEER FROM THE WIGWAM
Between now and December 14 Chiefs and Braves, and well wishers of the Wigwam are invited to assist in the Christmas Cheer campaign to bring comforts into the homes of Auckland’s sick-poor and families in straitened circumstances. All funds will be handed to the Sister at the Central Mission, whose work takes her where orivation and sickness are rife, and where help is constantly needed. With the object of sprea ding Christmas happiness among those who need our aid, Chiefs and Braves are invited to forward their sixpences to Redfeather, who is beginning the fund with 50 sixpences, and will acknowledge ail additions in the Wigwam Page. The following sixpences have been received to date: Previously acknowledged six- £ s d penoes f 144) 3 12 0 Big Elk (5) 2 6 Wandering ,Chief (2) 1 0 Laughing Water (2) 1 0 Still Valley (2) 1 0 Friendly Chiefs (18) 9 0 Total sixpences to date (173) . . 4 6 6 THE WANDERER Upon a mountain height, far from the sea. F found a shell. And to my listening ear the lonely z thing Ever a song of ocean seemed to , sing Ever a tale of ocean seemed to tell How came the shell upon the mountain height? Ah. who can sav Whether there dropped by some too careless hand. Or whether there cast when Ocean swept the Land. Ere the Eternal had ordained the Day? Strange, was it not? Far from its native deep One song it sang: Sang of the awful mysteries of the tide. Sang of the misty sea. profound and wide Ever with echoes of the ocean rang. And as the Shell upon the mountain height Sings of the sea. So do I ever, leagues and leagues away. So do I ever, wandering where 1 may. Sing, O my home! sing. O my home! of thee. EUGENE FIELD Sometimes two persons are like two drops running alongside of eacn other down a window-pane: one marvels how it is they can so long escape running together. Persons fit to be bosom friends will meet and part for years, and never say much bevond Good-morning and Good-night. —GEORGE MACDONALD
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 8
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365SIXPENCE TIME Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 8
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