CHILDREN'S LETTERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2588, 30 November 1893, Page 4

CHILDREN'S LETTERS.

The Spectator, in an artiela on "Children's Letters," justly observes that such epistles are always concrete. It gives the following boy's letter, which it says is a model of c&riy epistolary stylo ;—" Dear Papa,—You told nie not to throw water under the bath. I have not. It is still wet. 1 have looked. It leaks. Good-bye.—John," The following letter, or rather " written &ommnnication," from a small boy to an elder sister, who was too busy to talk or to play with him, betrays a certain instinct for probable jngtjjods of persuasion which does the author eiwsdjj) ;—" Most Beautiful Blanch, —Please will yo« gome and play hide and seek'/—Tom." Tta. story of the German children who wrote to ib<J Giver of all good things to send them presents on SaniA Claus' day was recently quoted in the Spectator, They are capable also of appealing by tetter to the powers of the lower world. Alittleboy who in the abscence of his parents had been Mtiteneed to bed was seen to be busy with a pa»e? jWMi pencil, after which he carefully buried ffe# communication in a hole in the garden, and tt?i#e°- to Dcd - The missive, when disintefmi, ran as follows :—"Dear Mr Devil,—Please eorop and take A«nt Jane; please be quick.— Yours, Robert/'