“At night the moon looked as if it were a Queen and the stars were her Attendants.” “The clouds are making way for the moon to come out.” The sun, its rising and setting, is also frequently mentioned. One child had developed patriotism to such an extent as to write:-- “One day I looked up to the Sky and saw the sun was rising in the shape of the British Isles”. Alas! What would the Kaiser think? Another of my correspondents expressed surprise that “the moon came from where the sky touched the Earth,” an evidence of street-bound horizon. In other letters the writers record:-- “I saw the sun set it was like a big silver Eagle’s wing laying on a cliff”. “When the sun was setting out of the clouds came something that looked like a County Council Steamer”. That must have been a rather alarming sunset, but hardly less so than “the cloud which was like Saint Paul’s Cathedral coming down on our heads”. The animals gave great pleasure and created wonder:-- “The cows made a grunting noise, the baa lambs made a pretty little shriek”. “The cows I saw were lazy, they were laying. One was a bull who I daresay had been tossing somebody.” “I heard a bird chirping it was make a noise like chirp chirp twee.” “I saw a big dragon fly. It was like a long caterpillar with long sparkling transparent wings.” “The birds are not like ourn they are light brown.” “There were wasps which was yellow and pretty but unkind.” “I (aged eleven) saw a little blackbird--its head was off by a Cat. I made a dear little grave and so berreyed it under the Tree.” The flowers, of course, come in for the greatest attention and after them the trees are most usually referred to:-- “I (aged nine) know all the flowers that lived in the garden, but not all those who lived in the field”. “Stinging nettles are a nuisance to people who have holes in their boots.” “The Pond is all covered with Rushes. These had flowers like a rusty poker.” “I picked lots of flowers and always brought them home--” shows influence of the Selborne Society in teaching children not to pick and throw away what is alive and growing. “The Cuckoo dines on other birds.” “There was one bird called the squirrel.” “Only gentlemen are allowed to shoot pheasants as they are expensive.” “We caught fish in the river some were small others about 2 feet long.” “Butterflies dont do much work.” “The trunk of the oak is used for constructing furniture, coffins and other expensive objects.” But my readers will be weary, so I will conclude with the pregnant remark of a little prig, who writes:-- “I think the country was in a good condition for _I_ found plenty of interesting things in it.” One or two of my small correspondents show an early disposition to see faults and remember misfortunes.