TURRETS AND PEARLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 678, 1 June 1929, Page 13 (Supplement)

TURRETS AND PEARLS

The grey clouds have cleared from the sky now, and across it has spread a pink film of cloud, like a fairy veil. ! Round the blue eastern horizon is a : bank of pearly cloud, -which is shaped ; almost like a turretedL castle. I think it is the castle of the departing day. The Rain Fairies have been abroad. ! and have strung their shining pearls ' on tree and grass and window-pane. I can also see some trees, which have been beautifully tinted with the many I colours of autumn, and these look very j bright and pretty. ; Lady Autumn has met old Lord AN in- - ter at the crossroads of the year, and j soon there will be no coloured trees, only the thought of the coming greeni and-gold springtime to lighten the j grey, wet days which are the children ! o£ Winter.

—Jean Mclndoe (aged 14). j j i j A FILMY WHITE SHAWL I Last night I went for a walk and j the air was full of mystery and enchantment. The beautiful Lady, of ! the Night had dropped her !Umy white shawl from her throne on the 1 moon, and it lay in billows over the I fields, until scores ox fairies came j sliding down the moonbeams to rei cover It. As they bore it aloft, howj ever, a piece of it was caught in a I pine tree and was torn off. Vais ; morning some birds took it and used lit to cover their nest. . 1 . i —Eileen Oracle Caged is}. BLINDMAN'S APPLES 57 i Here is a fin© game to play when you j have friends to tea, and can play m ; th© garden. Between two tree- • stretch a string, and from the string j suspend a dozen or so. apples, on varying lengths of string. .Next bi.mdi.old the guests one by one, and make them cross their arms behind. They are turned round three times and are led up to the apples, where they must try to catch one in their mouth. The time I limit is two minutes, and, of course, ! if they uncross their arms they are disqualified for the prize. Youwm be j surprised how few people can catch an apple. _____ THE HERON The children were having an objectlesson on the heron, and the teacher pointed out that the heron has no tail to speak of. When the essays were written one little girl wrote: “The heron has a tail, but it must not be talked about.” ~ j Sent in by JEAN GRANT.