WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Is the New Zealand boy and girl too well cared for? I don't know. What do you think about it? It’s true, isn’t it, that the odd extra threepences are easy to come by. And it used. not to be. I knew a small boy of ten who made money in all sorts of ways-from selling balloons in Showgrounds to marking sacks of potatoes for a Chinese fruitman. ‘He didn’t want money-he needed it. And for a hundred and one things-but mostly a bicycle. When he got the bicycle he got a job. So far as I know his parents never gave him so much as a silver sixpence. But he had ‘lots of things worth having-and great fun into the bargain. The other day I met a pretty girl-with. brains. She was moaning and writhing with wretchedness because her parents said she had to go through college. Yet I know a girl in New York who is one of about one hundred others who are minding people’s babies to. get to college. * * > I live in the country-some-times. Not often enough, though, to find time to go after the blackberries that are weighing down the bushes. Yet not once has a little boy knocked at my door and suggested I should buy any. I wish he would. There'll be mushrooms soon, too. But I know he won’t come. He never does. This sounds very cnearly a grumble. Sorry. Pay Jha
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 March 1940, Page 34
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244WHAT DO YOU THINK? New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 36, 1 March 1940, Page 34
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