FROM A LETTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 373, 6 June 1928, Page 8

FROM A LETTER

“To-day is a fine, ‘good-to-be-alive’ day, with blue sky, birds singing, and golden sunlight—just like summer, but for the fact that the trees are almost devoid of leaves, and there is a cold tang in the air, telling of coming rains and frosts, and long winter months. “This morning I watched something I had never seen before—the coming of dawn. I awoke very early and found I could not go to sleep again, so I sat up and pulled aside the curtain. Just one star hung against the sky, silver and brilliant. A weird, bluegrey line ran around the eastern horizon and this seemed to be gradually spreading across the whole sky. The webs of night still clung to the world as if reluctant to depart. Then suiddenly it seemed that blue-grey line swept over the sky, and dawn had come. For a moment I almost imagined I could hear the rustle of her robes as she passed. Then the birds started—blackbirds and thrushes calling, sparrows chirping—a thousand joyous notes awoke on the air as the feathered folk greeted another day. A little later I watched the sun rise, but it did not seem to me to contain the magic of dawn —perhaps because I had seen it many times before, or perhaps because the mortal world had now awakened to renewed and vigorous activity.” —Red Star (Jean Mclndoe, Hamilton, aged 13).

badges last month. The cup for patrol marks was presented to the Red Rose Patrol. “On Sunday, May 20, our company attended the annual Guide service in the Town Hall. Our lieutenant has been appointed captain of the Second Takapuna Company, and it is no longer sharing our meetings. A new lieutenant in our company has taken her place.”