PETER PAN’S LETTER

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 21 (Supplement)

PETER PAN’S LETTER

GIRLS AND BOYS, And now the first week of schooldays are over and the Holldayshlp is lying becalmed and silent on the blue seas of Adventure, patiently waiting for the next holidays to arrive; and Peter finds the streets beneath his window very quiet and still after the bustle of holiday weeks, while the Sunshine Girl says she feels sure the schoolbells must have the same call as the Pled Piper of Hamlin. But at three o’clook every day the streets are bright and cheerful once more with little people hopping and skipping here, there and everywhere, and simply bursting with news of their day’s adventures. There are little people clutching crloket bats and tennis racquets, little folk with bathing suits and towels and others with large oases which Peter thinks must contain lots of special secrets, bustling everywhere and Peter loves watching the busy scene from his window as everyone hurries home again. Jenno and Tony have been simply bubbling over with good spirits and the Circle People are finding It very hard keeping those rascals out of mlsohlef. Smutty and Scamp have not been very good lately either, for they have been having such Jolly times digging up Peter’s garden to bury Scamp’s bones and then rolling In the wet grass until they are very muddy and untidy. The other day the Wendy Person found those rascals fast asleep on her very special mat so those pets were scolded very severely. Uncle Andy has promised to take the Clrole People blackberrylng very soon for he has found some lovely berries ripe out by his farm and he told Peter he would love a blackberry pie, so he must start gathering those berries soon before they all disappear. The Twins are waiting, not very patiently, for the rattle of Uncle Andy’s car to be heard and then they will know It’s blackberry time again. Peter’s garden is looking very bedraggled after Mr Weather Man’s changeable moods but he noticed some lovely zinnias In bloom to-day, with deep, deep orange petals and stiff pale green stalks. Such a lovely picture they made too against a deep green hedge, and then there are golden marigolds everywhere with their petals gleaming brightly through all weathers, and golden and brown nasturtiums are still blooming In profusion. But now Peter must close for the Printer Man Is banging on the office door and Mr Mall Bag, who Is not looking very fat these days, Is whispering, “Tell the members to write some letters soon Peter, I am feeling hungry,” and Peter hopes that the letters will soon be pouring In too. And now bucketsful of sunshine and Jolly hours. From Yours, Waltlng-for-more-malls f wuuiiiiiii.i.mmmtn »»»»»'*"«*