THE WANDERER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 355, 16 May 1928, Page 6

THE WANDERER

PRIZE-WINNING STORY High among the mountains who** peaks, snow capped, pierce the clouds, there nestles a little almost forgotten town, breathing the spirit of goeist charm and age-old legend. They say that once, long ago, Wh® the sun had sunk behind the horisos and the golden rays bathed the snowy peaks in the brightness and glory the sunset hues, out of the ie®H* mist there appeared a little wand®arAnd, when old and young had esssed their toil and rested in the poacefo! twilight of the fading day, clear and sweet above the crooning breexe, tins* rose the plaintive wailing of a ▼toße* Rising and falling, sobbing and lilting, sweet as the pipes of Pan, the naagte notes drew all toward the player—Ju» a boy, a ragged, dusty boy, with wistful, lonely eys, and* wan, tired fsoa lighted now with a marvellous glow. Unconscious he stood, playing to tl>> sky above, to the stars peeping dOWI with pale wonder at this lonely VSg** bond, playing to his heart that had o®* yet awakened, playing to his soul tltet he could not fathom. Tho J** enchanted note, throbbing and with poignant beauty, died away aaa quivered into silence. The moon poured her soft Mg** wW * the scene, lighting up the raptunwi faces of the listeners and the d-lai light in the eyes of the little wmaJUiWEre the first rays of the rising ** could gild the hills, the boy had py Like a shadow he came and paaj**: up, up to the mountains which kJO»w blue, h£jy and impenetrable, guardians keeping eternal watchAnd still, when the moon in the sky above the almost wP*!** town and the pale stars may hear, borne faintly On theWjJJJr the sweet, throbbing music of the —B'ue'iloon (Peggy Wilson. Pon*onW)

FOR WISE HEADS

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