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  2. Highway @ By-way

    Dear "Non-Com,"—Here is another lizard yarn to bracket with my recent one about the thirsty goanna. I knew that "bobtails" lived under the ...

    Article : 358 words
  3. Sarah.

    "Sarah was a lady, Though her past was shady, Sarah had class with a capital K." So runs the song and it might have ...

    Article : 473 words
  4. The Night Well.

    Dear "Non-Com."—Being a constant reader of your pages, I have followed with interest the attempts to describe the Night Well at Borden. ...

    Article : 259 words
  5. Bad Luck!

    Dear "Non-Com."—Having rolled my swag, I am about to walk your Highways and By-ways for the first time. Mr. Wheatfarmer had been to town ...

    Article : 217 words
  6. "Paddy the Flat."

    Dear "Non-Com,"—Further to your query about a North-West storekeeper who kept all his accounts by means of signs. I find that reference is made to ...

    Article : 415 words
  7. Leaving Certificates.

    Dear "Non-Com."—During a Blighty leave I visited the school where I thought I had been taught all there was to know. The Head introduced me to ...

    Article : 416 words
  8. Our Birds.

    Dear "Non-Com."—Like "Martingale," I, too, have studied birds. My acquaintance with them dates back beyond his first memory of them, in fact my first ...

    Article : 274 words
  9. Complying with the Law.

    Dear "Non-Com.,"—In the days when, the cab rank was from the Palace Hotel to Barrack-street, a hard-doer of a cabby left his turnout for a short while. When ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. In-hospiraliry.

    Dear "Non-com,"—I've read your pages ever since they commenced, and have never yet felt fit to try climbing the hill. I don't suppose this will reach ...

    Article : 224 words
  11. Canine Intelligence.

    Dear "Non-Com."—"Smiling's" par. re canine intelligence reminds me again. Out west in Queensland one of the "big gun" carriers sold some of his ...

    Article : 219 words
  12. By Gum!

    Dear "Non-Com."—I was unaware that 'possums were carniverous beasts until I was told the following yarn. It ought to be pretty dinkum because the chap ...

    Article : 204 words
  13. "Jerry the Bustler."

    Dear "Non-Com."—Jerry the Bustler, as he was known to his intimates, had been boundary riding on the station long enough to be credited with owning, at ...

    Article : 340 words
  14. Horse Sense.

    Dear "Non-Com."—Some people will tell you that a horse has no sense. Well, listen to this. I had only been up here a fortnight and ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. More Strange Bedfellows.

    Dear "Non-Corn."—Adding further to "Mrs. Dinkum's" story of strange bedfellows and strange mothers, I thought this little experience might interest some ...

    Article : 215 words
  16. "Eggs-a-Crook!"

    Dear "Non-Com."—As many of your correspondents are groupies or ex-groupies, here are a few reminscences of our early days ere we "retired hurt" (in heart ...

    Article : 175 words
  17. A Hasty Job!

    Dear "Non-Com."—Bill, from the opposite block, had put in every Saturday afternoon and Sunday for the past six months building a twelve by ten shack, ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. Strong-Feller!

    Dear "Non-Com."—About the time artesian water was first struck on the Wooramel River, Bob, a drover, arrived to get a mob of bullocks to take to ...

    Article : 118 words
  19. Joey.

    Dear "Non-Com."—I shot a doe two miles from my camp near Cue. Soon afterwards there was a clap of thunder, a few spots of rain and it turned quite ...

    Article : 107 words
  20. Didn't Want to Butt In!

    Dear "Non-Com."—I have roamed round this world a fair bit during the past 25 years and my lot has fallen among all sorts, and conditions of people, but ...

    Article : 172 words
  21. A Great Goanna.

    Dear "Non-Com,"—This was told to me by an old-timer, who had been prospecting a few hundred miles east of Duketon. While sitting at a waterhole waiting to ...

    Article : 127 words
  22. A Certain Winner.

    Dear "Non-Com."—On a very recent Saturday a resident of a town in Western Australia had put in the day in the bush, and returned in the evening. Walking up ...

    Article : 107 words
  23. A Lady's Hat.

    Dear "Non-Com,"—We have no wireless, but we find it pretty good listening in to the kids, sometimes. Our two were sitting on the floor, discussing departed ...

    Article : 76 words
  24. A Queer Trick of Nature.

    Dear "Non-Com."—We had a Pomeranian and a cat with some kittens. When the Pom's pups were born they and all the kittens except one were ...

    Article : 60 words
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