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  2. IN THE 'THIRTIES.

    Early in 1836, I was sent to the Sydney College for my education; it is now called the Sydney Grammar School. I was then in my tenth year, so cannot recollect with ...

    Article : 719 words
  3. CAPTAIN'S FLAT.

    A cloud of dust on the long white road, And the teams go creeping on, Inch by inch with the weary load: And by the power of the green-hide goad ...

    Article : 979 words
  4. APRIL.

    Probably every poet of the old world (with the exception of Shakespeare, who nowhere mentions the month) at some time or another, rejoicing at the approach of spring, the ...

    Article : 1,126 words
  5. CALLIOPE GALE.

    Saturday, the 15th ult., was the forty-first anniversary of the great hurricane at Samoa, when six foreign warships—three American and three German—were lost at Apia, and the ...

    Article : 1,271 words
  6. H.M.S. CALLIOPE.

    THE FAMOUS BRITISH WARSHIP, LYING IN FARM COVE, SYDNEY HARBOUR, SHORTLY BEFORE HER SAMOAN EXPLOIT. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  7. PATROL.

    The game is still going on, but the end appears in sight. In a few years patrolling will be a monotonous business of census-taking and inspection, with nothing new to ...

    Article : 995 words
  8. THE LITTLE TREE.

    When the Little Tree was born, the woodland breezes, gently whirling its fluffy foliage into a foam of olive, sang, "So beautiful! So beautiful!" But the Little Tree, dancing a ...

    Article : 669 words
  9. THE CUTTY SARK.

    The news that the famous clipper Cutty Sark may revisit Australia has thrilled not only the shellbacks, who will foregather and recall the days they saw her in the harbours ...

    Article : 870 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN. THE TOUCAN.

    I wonder— If two can see the toucan— Can one as well as two? This thing has often puzzled me; ...

    Article : 43 words
  11. SHADOWS.

    I do not fear my shadow thin, No, no; not I[?] The more I chase, and try to catch, The more he'll fly. ...

    Article : 132 words
  12. NEXT LAST WAR.

    "I was reading," said Heddle, "that the Americans have published a book called 'America Conquers Britain.' It says in it that they have more money, more population, ...

    Article : 781 words
  13. DISILLUSION.

    In a corner of our garden There's a funny little door; And I used to guess about it, But I needn't any more[?] ...

    Article : 70 words
  14. BUTCHER BIRD'S SOLILOQUY.

    I wonder what it's all about, The Butcher bird's soliloquy, The hoard, he has so nicely stored In a picked fork of a near gum tree? ...

    Article : 61 words
  15. DUTIFUL BUTTERFLY.

    Though the butterfly likes to select a suitable place to lay her eggs, in cases of emergency she will lay them anywhere. Should she find herself in imminent danger she will ...

    Article : 112 words
  16. WHY STAND IDLE?

    The back windows of this boarding-house look out on a lane, to which there is also an exit from a convent nearby. Each day some twenty-five men sit in the gutter of this lane ...

    Article : 311 words
  17. "TOPPERS."

    The silk or "dress," together with its convenient offshoot the "crush" hat, is once again in favour in London. For all social entertainments, weddings, garden parties, theatres, ...

    Article : 427 words
  18. A NEW GUINEA PATROL.

    CARRIERS AND ESCORT PASSING THE TORLU RIVER, NEW BRITAIN. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 13 words
  19. THE BUDDING ELMS.

    Little Margaret is lying under the ground, And the elm trees are awake[?] Little Margaret is lying under the ground, And the red buds swell and break. ...

    Article : 184 words
  20. SYDNEYSIDE SONGS.

    Man-o-War Steps—there's life in the phrase, Breath and colour from far-off days; Screech of parrot and smell of tar, Old Port Royal or Zanzibar; ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. THIRTY-FIVE.

    Five-and-thirty milestones Mark the road I've trod, Half the span allotted; Time walks velvet-shod, ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. TO JEAN CURLEWIS.

    Valel Sweet singer of the different song! Fair lays, young with Elizabethan dew, You won from Rime's rare fields, known to how few ...

    Article : 114 words
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