PETER PAN’S LETTER

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)

PETER PAN’S LETTER

J)EAR GIRLS AND BOYS, There was great excitement among the Circle People the other morning, for the Twins rushed Into Peter’s room looking very hot and bothered and when they had regained their breath Jenne whispered, “Ooh, Peter, do leave this horrid stuffy room and nasty old desk and come and see my hyacinth, it’s the most beautifulest ever.” So after Peter had corrected the Twins’ English and growled at Jenne for talking about Peter’s lovely, airy room as “horrid and stuffy,” off Peter went, and when he arrived at Jennifer Jane’s garden there were the Wendy Person, and Uncle Andy, Some-one and No-one, and the Sunshine Girl gazing at a lovely pale gold hyacinth just opening fully to the warm sun. Then Peter espied the loveliest clump of primulas with their dainty gold petals dancing in the breeze, while beside it bloomed a tiny spray of golden bloom. The Sunshine Girl has just burst into Peter’s room carrying the loveliest bunch of golden daffodils and soft green maidenhair fern, and she is looking very pleased with herself. “These are to cheer up our room, Peter, ’cause it DOES look so cold and miserable without flowers you know.” So now Peter doesn’t mind in the slightest if the skies frown all day, for there is daffodil gold everywhere and that is nearly as good as golden sunshine, isn’t it ? Jenne tells Peter that the Holiday Ship is all ready to set sail again and those mischievous Sprites, the Twins, are ready for a journey in the train, while their mummy is being oh, so very busy, mending jerseys which somehow seem to get torn in the most unlikely spots. Jenne says that she is sure it is the naughty goblins who make the holes, but Tony told Peter that the barbed wire always seemed to catch his coat when he climbs through the wire fences—adventure bound. And now lots of love and jolly adventures aboard the Holiday Ship. From Yours, Expecting-Holiday-Mail,