THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN HAIR
This story was written by a Wellington man who spent most of his life at sea as ship’s cook. N New Zealand there are a lot of ] little girls, some have ginger hair, some dark, and others light golden hair. The little golden-haired girl I want to tell you about was a. passenger for, London in the steamer I was cook on, Everyone fel! in love with her, and she was known as "The Little Girl with the Golden Hair." Though everyone else admired her hair, the little girl found it a nuisance in many ways. She was fond of skipping, but when she asked any of the men to turn her rope, they would say, "I will if you give me a bit of your golden hair." Even the Arabs at Port Said wanted it as payment for their cheap trinkets. The little girl wanted to.buy a pretty brooch and she only had sixpence, and the Arab said, "Give me a piece of your golden hair and you shall have the brooch for sixpence." Of course she couldn’t give her hair to everyone who wanted it, so she had to go without many things. She would often come to my galley wanting to make the toast. Of course I let her and often gave her little dainties. " Cook," she would say, " Whatever you do for me you never ask for some of my golden hair like the other men." When our ship reached England there were the usual good-byes to be said, and the little girl did not forget her friend the cook. "Good-bye cook," she said, "and cook, I am going to give you a keepsake if my mother will let me." She ran off and soon came back with a little lock of her golden hair tied up with blue ribbon. My word, I did prize this and on other voyages I would gather the children round me and tell them the story of the little girl with the golden hair. This happened over 40 years ago so perhaps the little girl has golden-haired girls of her own and no doubt she tells them the story of the little girl with the golden hair and her friend the cook.
By
C. H.
HAMBLEY
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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383THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE GOLDEN HAIR New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 47
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