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Letters page from Volume 4, issue 11.
June 20th – July 3rd, 1956.

OUR

LETTER PAGE

A letter from Eileen Kelley, Kuwait, Persian Gulf.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I thought you might like to hear about two sparrows who have built their nest in our garage. At the back there is a bundle of raffia and the sparrows must have thought that it was very good for building nests, because they built their whole nest with it! I think they were very lucky to have their nesting materials at the back of the garage, instead of having to go and hunt for bits of straw. In our garden we have a sprinkler and every morning I switch it on for them, and if I forget they come to the outside of the window and twitter angrily, as much as to say, “Come and put our water on, please!” Don’t you think they are sensible little birds?
Yours sincerely,
Eileen Kelley.

(I certainly do, Eileen – and I think too, that your letter is so interesting and well-written, that it deserves my letter-prize this week.)

A letter from the Famous Five Club at Parkstone, Dorset.
Dear Enid Blyton,
I have joined your Famous Five Club, and I think it is fun. I told my friends about it, and they asked for a badge too, and now we have five members. We have a meeting-place and password, and have a signal too. We do enjoy it. We all like the badge with the heads of the Five on.
Cheerio for now, from
Valerie, Patsy, Brenda, Barbara and Pat.

(I am glad you have a Famous Five Club, children, and enjoy it. I always like hearing from any of my Clubs, and reading their interesting news.)

A letter from Jane Smalley, London, S.E.15.
Dear Enid Blyton,
For my birthday my Mummy and Daddy gave me a puppy. I could not think of a name for him. At last I thought of one, it was “Noddy.” Soon after I had him he had Hard Pad, and the vet. said he would not live, but he is now well and happy. Unfortunately the Hard Pad left him with twitches, and he nods his head as he is going to sleep. Isn’t it a coincidence that I called him “Noddy”!
Love from
Jane Smalley.

(It certainly was strange that you called him “Noddy,” Jane. Thank you for a most interesting letter !)

No fund-raising letters this week – but two about animals and one about a club.

I had to look up Hard Pad as I had never heard of it – but it turns out it’s also known as distemper which I had heard of. Most recently in an episode of All Creatures Great and Small.