An Open Air Page For Big Girls and Boys

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 249, 11 January 1928, Page 6

An Open Air Page For Big Girls and Boys

FROM THE PEACE TRAILS

« lITELCOME, newcomers. By what names shall we know you ff when we find you again at the threshold of the Wigwam?” “I am Fluttering Leaf, Redfeather, and long have I sought the evergreen trail where youth walks shoulder to shoulder and the gods of friendship are free to work their will.” “And I am Whispering Pool, O Chief, a lover of the Great < hitdoors. In the heart of the forest there is a spring of a thousand voices that tumbles its pellucid waters into a green-bordered, whispering pool, and, as I leaned to drink, a message came to my ears: ‘Go seek Redfeather and the Children of the Wigwam,’ it said, and now my quest is ended.” “Your names shall he inscribed, for all time on tlie Totem Pole, Fluttering Leaf and Whispering Pool, and we of the Wigwam shall ever listen for your coming. . . . And what news do yon bring from the Peace Trails, Silent Warrior? “The Chiefs and Braves make merry under the Holiday Moon, Redfeather. They have shed the cares of a work-a-day world to fish and hunt and swim. The rivers and the hills give hack their laughter. Happiness is with the Children of Redfeather.” “It is well, for youth must ever be a time for rejoicing. And still at the end of the trail stands the Wigwam. And still in the doorway waits the Chief. And still on the wind shall come the voices of the Children, be they near or far. . . Hist! An arrow from the faithful Flying Cloud is quivering in the birch ,ree ' —REDFEATHER.