PLAYTIME

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 16 October 1942, Page 3

PLAYTIME

One fine Saturday Edna and I decided to make a play-house. We got some palings and put them in the ground. On the palings we placed tin and we also put tin at the sides. At the front we have a door, but every night we shut it up because the calves will get in if we don't. We have a sofa and a little fireplace in which we set a fire. Mother said we could have a fire when she hasn’t any clothes on the line. In a heap of stones we have made a cowshed. Edna and I pretend we have lour cows to milk. We also pretend we have pigs, lambs, cats, dogs, and calves to feed. We have a separator in the cow-shed. Out from our house we have made a dolls' bedroom. We have three dolls, one of which is Edna’s, and two are mine. We made the bedroom where the sun shines on it. Brother William has made us a real playhouse, but at present it is being used for a chaff shed. Every winter Allan and William always put the chaff in it. When the chaff is out of the shed we will be able to play in it and let the calves have our other one in the calf paddock. Mother has made Edna and me a billy cart. She is making a flower garden so she uses it to cart manure in. Sometimes I give Edna rides in it and I play horse. She has pillows in the bottom but she has no reins to steer me with. Florence Trower, Cowan Bridge.