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Letters page from Volume 3, issue 24.
November 23rd – December 1955.

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LETTER PAGE

A letter from Rosemary Cox, Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks.
Dear Enid Blyton,
One day Daddy, Mummy and I went fishing. Suddenly Daddy shouted out “There’s a snake!” It was swimming across the water. At lunch time I was eating my sandwiches when suddenly I turned round – and there was a snake behind me this time! Then some while after we went fishing once more, and what did we see but two snakes swimming through the water. Daddy made a noise and they went under water, swam a complete semicircle and made a huge splash as they leapt on to the bank.
The same day I saw a water-rat swimming in the water, a pretty little creature, but very timid. I wish you could have seen him, you would have loved the little animal as much as I did.
Much love from
Rosemary Cox.

(Thank you, Rosemary-you are lucky to have seen snakes swimming. They swim well, don’t they? Your little water-vole must have been a pretty sight. I have sent you my prize for a very interesting letter.)

A letter from Jenifer Roberts, Shrivenham.
Dear Enid Blyton,
In your magazine I read about Timmy and his cardboard collar. Our dog, Polly, had a very raw tail and there her skin is very sensitive. I suggested a cardboard tail-collar to Daddy, because we had to put on some powder which is poisonous, and we could not allow her to lick it. Daddy agreed with me, and we put on the tail-collar and it worked!
With love from
Jenifer Roberts.

(You are very ingenious, Jenifer. I have never heard of a tail-collar before!)

A letter from John Holden, High Wycombe.
Dear Enid Blyton,
We had a game the other day, seeing how many words we could get out of your name – and I got fifty-four. Is this a record?
Love from
John Holden.

(I don’t know, John. We’ll ask our readers !)

Rosemary’s letter had me Googling snakes of Britain. I’ve never heard of someone accidentally spotting so many snakes in one afternoon. I imagine they were grass snakes (which are apparently also called water snakes!).

Her long letter is balanced by John’s short one, which is making me wonder how many words I can make out of my name. We discovered that Ewan has paella in his name thanks to Richard Osman’s House of Games, but nothing that similar to my name has come up yet.

Jenifer’s letter (apart from making me check at least twice that I hadn’t spelled her name wrong) makes me wonder if Polly was laughed at like Timmy was. Somehow I assume that Jenifer didn’t storm off to camp to protect Polly’s honour, though.