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Samuel A. Barnett.
SECTION II.
RECREATION.
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THE CHILDREN’S COUNTRY HOLIDAY FUN’.[1]
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By Mrs. S. A. Barnett.
April, 1912.
ssss1From “The Cornhill Magazine”. By permission of the Editor.
Five thousand two hundred and eighty Letters, 872 Sketches, 199 Collections, all in parcels neatly tied up, the name, age, and sex of the writer, artist, or collector clearly written on the first page of the covering paper. There they lie, all around me, stack upon stack. The sketches are crude but extraordinarily vivid and unaffected; the collections are very scrappy but show affectionate care; the letters are written in childish unformed characters, and are of varying lengths, from a sheet of notepaper to ten pages of foolscap, but one and all deal with the same subject. What that subject is shall be told by a maiden of nine years old:—
“On one Thursday morning my Mother woke me and said, ‘To-day is Country Holiday Fun,’ so I got up and put my cloes on”.