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  2. "THE BUSH."

    There are hopeful indications that we have reached a turning-point in our literature. The awaggie-Jingler still has his audience; and for some time still, I suppose, faint ...

    Article : 1,671 words
  3. SIRDAR OUTRAGE.

    To-day, after a trial lasting a full week, the Court of Assize passed Judgment in the Sirdar outrage case. There were nine accused, two students who were recently caught ...

    Article : 1,597 words
  4. MERCHANT ADVENTURERS.

    Drake we know, and the Golden Hind, Which sailed the uncharted world with music sounding. We know the small, burnt Marigold, the traitor Doughty's ship, whose mouth ...

    Article : 1,407 words
  5. NATIVE AUSTRALIA.

    "BLACK NELLIE," A FOWLES'S BAT (S.A.) IDENTITY. TWO ABORIGINALS WHO OWN A MOTOR CAR. PHOTOGRAPHED ON THE EDGE OF THE NULLABOR PLAINS. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  6. THE EAST-WEST LINE.

    Some of the remarkable phases of life "outback" and the steps that are being taken by the responsible authorities to promote the settlement of remote agricultural and ...

    Article : 1,013 words
  7. THE EMPIRE.

    To most people proceeding to South Africa. Capetown is the front door—a front door leading to a vestibule of which any country might be Justly proud. Few cities have an ...

    Article : 1,708 words
  8. FIRST IMPRESSIONS.

    Dear Michael,- We have now been in all the university cities except Perth. I should write "cities where there is a university," to make it plain ...

    Article : 1,422 words
  9. MY QUEST.

    A French man once said to me, "No wonder England still lives up to the reputation of being 'a nest of singing birds,' when young poets have such a wealth of bookshops from ...

    Article : 1,275 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Lend me your glasses with silver rim, Silvereye-Silvereye; I'd like to see—but my sight is dim-What you espy, ...

    Article : 177 words
  11. "BIRD OF EVIL."

    The naturalist Lumholtz, while sojourning among the Contral Queensland aborigines, heard by night a strange, melancholy call, which the aborogines attributed to an evil ...

    Article : 389 words
  12. FABLE.

    The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former call'd the latter "Little Prig." ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. MEMORIES.

    There's a grand old wood I love so Well, in England, Thickly carpeted with primroses in Spring, Where broad oaks and leafy chestnuts spread ...

    Article : 184 words
  14. THE BULLOCK TEAM.

    The bullock team, a taken of Out West, The straining chain and heaving, panting side, Drawing their burden on unto their rest, ...

    Article : 170 words
  15. THE FROG.

    Be kind and tender to the Frog, And do not call him names, As "Slimy-skin" or "Polly-wog," Or likewise "Uncle James," ...

    Article : 70 words
  16. MOUNTAIN STREAM.

    Where the dew lies glenming, untrodden long For its shinlag paths adorning, When the mist clouds heavy, are all upborne It leaps from the grey hills, torrent torn, ...

    Article : 174 words
  17. THE WEAK POINT.

    Say not 'She loves too much,' of her Whose love is a consuming fiame Destroying god and worshipper. Not love but lack of wit's to blame. ...

    Article : 128 words
  18. THE VULTURE.

    The Valture eats between his meals. And that's the reason why He very, very rarely feels As well as you o[?] I. ...

    Article : 79 words
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