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  2. HUMOUR UNAWARES.

    Some are born to fame, and others are pitchforked into the select pages of "Who's Who" by an amiable accident. But not many men have achieved immortality by a happy slip of the ...

    Article : 995 words
  3. HISTORIC BOARD ROOM

    A large room occupying the whole of the upper floor of a venerable stone building in Sussex-street—one of its business thoroughfares where some aspect of Old Sydney still ...

    Article : 1,671 words
  4. EARLY PACKETS WHICH RAN BETWEEN PORT JACKSON AND THE HUNTER.

    The Rose (left), was built in 1840, and the Phoenix (right), in 1846. boardroom of the Newcastle and Hunter Portraits of these and other old ships are in the Sussex-street River Steamship Company. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 59 words
  5. SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

    When the war was finished, and the Governments of each State were faced with the problem of placing the returned soldiers somewhere, the great scheme was started of ...

    Article : 1,417 words
  6. A NEW CATHEDRAL.

    The man who designed the Cenotaph in Whitehall and conceived the new Delhi on the scale of Washington; who built immense blocks of offices, banks, and bridges in ...

    Article : 1,348 words
  7. DR. SHIRLEY BAKER.

    Richard O. Gross, the English sculptor, in modelling the massive proportions of the late Rev. Doctor Shirley Waldemar Baker, one time Premier of Tonga, and one of the most ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 949 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    I do so love the winter; when We all sit down to tea, For then the kitchen furniture Mostly amuses me. ...

    Article : 117 words
  9. NOXIOUS WEEDS.

    Once upon a time there was a gully in a suburban park. It was very rocky, and there were no trees, and the rather yellow grass on its slopes was strewn with ...

    Article : 598 words
  10. TRAFALGAR.

    Looking back on the victory of Trafalgar, the overwhelming superiority of Nelson as leader has quite thrown into the shade anyone else who took part in the battle. We all know ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,072 words
  11. BEARS' WISHES.

    When bears go down to the river to fish They often sit by the river and wish. They wish they could have great stores of honey, ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. TEETH TO EAT.

    A clock has rot a tongue to tell Us what we ought to know— When's the time to leave off school, Or what's the time to go. ...

    Article : 57 words
  13. MY GARDEN.

    I have a little garden, And lots of seeds I sow; I dig and weed, and hunt for slugs, I rake and stake and hoe; ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. NIGGER.

    Dad loves Nigger; Oliver loves Nigger; in fact, we all love the black cat that forms one of our household. It was this way that this beautiful animal ...

    Article : 413 words
  15. THE LATE SWALLOW.

    I found him in the garden, 'mid the reddening leaves of autumn, A saddened little swallow, with a trailing, broken wing; ...

    Article : 95 words
  16. LEAGUE OF NATIONS.

    Mankind as a general rule likes to be impressed. There are few more popular spectacles in London than the changing of the guard. There is something stirring in seeing ...

    Article : 472 words
  17. "CRIB," THE BULL TERRIER.

    This is a true story ot a bull terrier which my husband bought for me nearly three years ago. It was in the winter time, and the puppy, which he was then, about six months ...

    Article : 725 words
  18. AN ABORIGINAL FOLK TALE.

    A blackfellow once thought to play a great trick on the neighbouring tribes. He made a number of grass humpies and a fire before each. He had the gift of mimicry, and when ...

    Article : 402 words
  19. UNTO THE SKYLARKS.

    I like that old writer who with ancient words In companies musters the beasts and the birds: A harras of horses. A clowder of cats, ...

    Article : 173 words
  20. THE FLAME TREE.

    Summer has seen thee, playmate of the sun, In leafy light. and purple shadow strewn Athwart the green and gold of afternoon. Holding high revel, till the day is done. ...

    Article : 111 words
  21. HOMING.

    My mind's a wild hawk, breasting The gusty winds of chance, My heart's a dove, enchained To the wrist of wild romance; ...

    Article : 93 words
  22. RONDEL.

    Athrill with happiness, A bird pours out his song; Gone is the sober dress The old earth wore so long ...

    Article : 75 words
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