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The Australian woman's mirror

Call Number
NLq 059.4 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : The Bulletin Newspaper, 1924-
Issue
Vol. 24 No. 28 (2 June 1948)
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THE AUSTRALIAN  

WOMAN’S MIRROR  

“The Australian Woman’s Mirror,” Vol. 24—No. 28.  

Wednesday, June 2, 1948.  

3°  

AUSTRALIAN SHORT  

STORY  

AUSTRALIAN SHORT  

STORY  

LAST BIRTHDAY  

SHE had, for the past ten years, been  

telling the scores of relations who rallied  

together for her birthday that this would be  

her very last celebration; but here she was  

on her eighty-second, small, white-haired,  

grumpy and imperious, preparing once again  

to do her large family proud.  

George came in with her breakfast tray  

and settled himself comfortably prior to  

reading the long piece in yesterday’s Clarion  

about her.  

“Grand Old Lady of Tiroona, they’ve  

headed your piece this year, Mother.”  

It was long, eulogistic account of the  

first Ramseys’ activi  

ties in the Empire-building field.  

George thought little more reticence  

could have been shown here. The reporter  

had even sniffed out the story of his own  

birth in myall camp, with Georgina  

attended by gins and the river running a.  

banker, cutting them off from civilisation.  

He read it all—about his mother forming  

the district’s first Sunday-school; driving  

hundred head of blood horses across moun  

tains to beat bushfire; clearing of the  

first road to Tiroona...  

The old lady finished her /breakfast and  

lay back on the pillows. After while her  

eyes closed.  

George went downstairs to welcome Bert’s  

lot, who had just arrived in their shining  

new sedan.  

“Hello, George.” His sister-in-law was  

tall, implacable womgn whom he detested.  

“My, how the years pass. You looked just  

like your father used to, coming out of the  

hall to greet the visitors. Oh, well, you  

must be sixty. Is your daughter coming  

this year?”  

“I couldn’t say.”  

always think it was tragedy—young  

Georgina running away, mean—but of  

course you would have had more children  

had you acted sensibly after Mary died.  

don suppose she’ll come. She hasn’t  

attended birthday in all these years.”  

George suddenly felt as old as the first  

Georgina. Seventeen years since the second  

Georgina ran away to marry man of whom  

her whole family disapproved. She had  

learned her lesson.- Toni, the handsome  

Greek waiter for whom she had left Tiroona,  

had treated her badly.  

George’s only daughter had learned about  

poverty and unhappiness. But she had  

They were all  

there in the  

lovely half  

wild garden.  

Ramsey pride all right, and all efforts to  

help her had been met with polite rejection.  

Lately he had heard of long illness, and  

felt Georgina to be beyond reach.  

big red bus stopped jerkily on the high  

way and girl alighted from it. The bus  

lumbered on. The girl stood looking round  

her, obviously nonplused.  

shabby car of indeterminate color roared  

up behind her, thundered over white  

culvert and stopped, the dust rising madly  

oyei the hood and settling down on it again  

like grey mantle.  

Going up?” called brown man, leaning  

from the loose-looking car.  

Up don know” She glanced  

round her uncertainly.  

‘‘To Tiroona, mean.”  

“Yes. mean—l didn’t know—l thou  

this was Tiroona. asked the driver'  

put me down at the closest point,”  

“Waiting for car?”  

“No.”  

‘This is Tiroona.” He was  

looking at her curiously. “Hop  

in with me. 'I he house is eleven miles  

away hidden in the mountains like an eagle’s  

nest. Never been here before?”  

(Continued on page 18.)  

[Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for transmission by post as newspaper.]  

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