An Open Air Page For Big Girls and Boys

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 285, 22 February 1928, Page 6

An Open Air Page For Big Girls and Boys

SUMMER LIGHTNING AND TWILIGHT FIRES - THIS morning, Children, as I peered from the Wigwam door 1 to scan the weather 1 saw a glimmer of lightning playing about the eastern hills. Yet, though I listened, no thunderclap followed. ‘The gods are playing a ball game with a meteor whose flight they have intercepted,’ thought I, ‘else how can one account for this summer lightning that leaves no sound in its wake!" Just then a strange maid came down the trail in search of Redfeather, and I christened her Summer Lightning, then and there. “Even as we looked, the genial face of the sun peeped through the haze and, in a moment, the clouds in the east were edged with filagree of the purest gold. ‘Hail, Redfeather!’ cried a voice as a new Brave parted the leaves. ‘Hail, Sun Cloud, maid of the morning!’ we answered in greeting. “And now. with the blue silences of the twilight all about us and the ruddy glow of the camp fire on our faces, 1 would read the stories of the Children. Hush! Here is one full of mystery. . . . ‘Desert Phantom,’ from the pen of Blue Moon, has brought the atmosphere of forgotten jdaces into our midst. . . . -And here is one called ‘Clematis,’ borne to the Wigwam by Little Swift Canoe. It is indeed precious freight. . . . Hist! Harvest Moon has heard the fluttering of ‘Ribbons in the Wind’ and likened it to the music of running ■water. . . . Dew of Dawn has given us a tale of adventure and reward. . . . And there are many more. . . . When the next moon swings into the sky we shall gather to ponder the art of the Children for a drawing competit on is still afoot. . . . Blue Fire, I see a new face beside your own.” “A stranger has come to listen also, Redfeather. Is there room on the Totem Pole for yet another name ?” REDFEATHER.