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THE AUSTRALIAN
Fix this textWOMAN’S MIRROR
Fix this text“The Australian Woman’s Mirror,” Vol. 24—No. 28.
Fix this textWednesday, June 2, 1948.
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Fix this textAUSTRALIAN SHORT
Fix this textSTORY
Fix this textAUSTRALIAN SHORT
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Fix this textLAST BIRTHDAY
Fix this textSHE had, for the past ten years, been
Fix this texttelling the scores of relations who rallied
Fix this texttogether for her birthday that this would be
Fix this texther very last celebration; but here she was
Fix this texton her eighty-second, small, white-haired,
Fix this textgrumpy and imperious, preparing once again
Fix this textto do her large family proud.
Fix this textGeorge came in with her breakfast tray
Fix this textand settled himself comfortably prior to
Fix this textreading the long piece in yesterday’s Clarion
Fix this textabout her.
Fix this text“Grand Old Lady of Tiroona, they’ve
Fix this textheaded your piece this year, Mother.”
Fix this textIt was a long, eulogistic account of the
Fix this textfirst Ramseys’ activi
Fix this textties in the Empire-building field.
Fix this textGeorge thought a little more reticence
Fix this textcould have been shown here. The reporter
Fix this texthad even sniffed out the story of his own
Fix this textbirth in a myall camp, with Georgina
Fix this textattended by gins and the river running a.
Fix this textbanker, cutting them off from civilisation.
Fix this textHe read it all—about his mother forming
Fix this textthe district’s first Sunday-school; driving a
Fix this texthundred head of blood horses across moun
Fix this texttains to beat a bushfire; clearing of the
Fix this textfirst road to Tiroona...
Fix this textThe old lady finished her /breakfast and
Fix this textlay back on the pillows. After a while her
Fix this texteyes closed.
Fix this textGeorge went downstairs to welcome Bert’s
Fix this textlot, who had just arrived in their shining
Fix this textnew sedan.
Fix this text“Hello, George.” His sister-in-law was a
Fix this texttall, implacable womgn whom he detested.
Fix this text“My, how the years pass. You looked just
Fix this textlike your father used to, coming out of the
Fix this texthall to greet the visitors. Oh, well, you
Fix this textmust be sixty. Is your daughter coming
Fix this textthis year?”
Fix this text“I couldn’t say.”
Fix this textI always think it was a tragedy—young
Fix this textGeorgina running away, I mean—but of
Fix this textcourse you would have had more children
Fix this texthad you acted sensibly after Mary died.
Fix this textI don t suppose she’ll come. She hasn’t
Fix this textattended a birthday in all these years.”
Fix this textGeorge suddenly felt as old as the first
Fix this textGeorgina. Seventeen years since the second
Fix this textGeorgina ran away to marry a man of whom
Fix this texther whole family disapproved. She had
Fix this textlearned her lesson.- Toni, the handsome
Fix this textGreek waiter for whom she had left Tiroona,
Fix this texthad treated her badly.
Fix this textGeorge’s only daughter had learned about
Fix this textpoverty and unhappiness. But she had
Fix this textThey were all
Fix this textthere in the
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Fix this textRamsey pride all right, and all efforts to
Fix this texthelp her had been met with polite rejection.
Fix this textLately he had heard of a long illness, and
Fix this textfelt Georgina to be beyond reach.
Fix this textA big red bus stopped jerkily on the high
Fix this textway and a girl alighted from it. The bus
Fix this textlumbered on. The girl stood looking round
Fix this texther, obviously nonplused.
Fix this textA shabby car of indeterminate color roared
Fix this textup behind her, thundered over a white
Fix this textculvert and stopped, the dust rising madly
Fix this textoyei the hood and settling down on it again
Fix this textlike a grey mantle.
Fix this textGoing up?” called a brown man, leaning
Fix this textfrom the loose-looking car.
Fix this textUp ? I I don t know” She glanced
Fix this textround her uncertainly.
Fix this text‘‘To Tiroona, I mean.”
Fix this text“Yes. I mean—l didn’t know—l thou
Fix this textthis was Tiroona. I asked the driver'
Fix this textput me down at the closest point,”
Fix this text“Waiting for a car?”
Fix this text“No.”
Fix this text‘This is Tiroona.” He was
Fix this textlooking at her curiously. “Hop
Fix this textin with me. 'I he house is eleven miles
Fix this textaway hidden in the mountains like an eagle’s
Fix this textnest. Never been here before?”
Fix this text(Continued on page 18.)
Fix this text[Registered at the General Post Office, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, for transmission by post as a newspaper.]
Fix this textIt's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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