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  2. "KID GLOVE" POCKLEY.

    The above was the name by which Captain R. F. Pockley, one time Port Master of Port Jackson, and for many years a master mariner engaged on the Australian coast, was known ...

    Article : 1,838 words
  3. PULPIT HUMOUR.

    That brevity is the soul of wit is a truth only too seldom apprehended by members of the clergy, who are perhaps apt to confuse surplice with surplus. Occasionally, ...

    Article : 994 words
  4. DERWENTWATER.

    That beautiful mountainous region within the counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and a tiny bit of Lancashire, known as the "Lake District," is crammed with literary ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,042 words
  5. THE TRAVELLING STORE OF THE OUTBACK

    A welcome visitor to the homesteads of pioneer settlers living miles from the railhead and carving a home out of the bush is the hawker with his trading stock on wheels. The above is a well-known type. A study from the "Sydney Morning Herald" Art Gallery. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 52 words
  6. A WARTIME EPIC.

    It was a hard, sharp, solid, and cruel explosion—a thunderclap, death-dealing sound, that I shall never forget. I was thrown violently forward against a bench a few yards ...

    Article : 1,696 words
  7. "LORNA DOONE."

    Ranking with "The Woman in White," "Under Two Flags," and other Victorian best sellers cited by a recent contributor to the "Herald," Blackmore's charming novel, "Lorna ...

    Article : 383 words
  8. THE TARANTELLA.

    There are many, perhaps, who, when playing a little tune in fast time, do not realise what a pretty legend is attached to the origin of the Tarantella. ...

    Article : 248 words
  9. SOME BEST POEMS

    Although the soldiers of New Zealand joined with our own to make the Anzacs, we differ often in sentiment from the neighbour Dominion, and our knowledge of it is often ...

    Article : 776 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 203 words
  11. BAGPIPES, AN ABERDEEN TERRIER.

    He was a true gentleman, a canny Scot frae' Aberdeen. He would stand dogmatically on his short, sturdy legs, his tail proudly erect, his square jaw set as firmly as his native ...

    Article : 295 words
  12. THE ROCKING CHAIR.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 139 words
  13. LUNCH IN THE GARDENS.

    Of particular appeal during the summer months, the Botanic Gardens always attract a goodly number of people who seek in surroundings of sylvan beauty respite from the ...

    Article : 236 words
  14. MOON MAGIC.

    Why do lawns assume an almost magic aspect by night? In the light of the moon, the grass seems an unnatural emerald green, a fitting carpet for fairy feet. Perhaps, there ...

    Article : 196 words
  15. THE AARDVARK.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 143 words
  16. THE ACCIDENT.

    "Well, you listen a minute," said Rose Marie, "To a[?]dweadful fing that's just happened to me? I'm about as upset as a child can be. ...

    Article : 89 words
  17. WHEN THE TALL SPARS FRINGED THE WHARVES

    A scene at Newcastle in the days of sail when vessels were at the long wharves two and three deep waiting for their cargoes of coal. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 33 words
  18. JELLY-FISH BIRTH.

    Jelly-fish are commonplace creatures to most of us, mere bags of sea water, but in their native element, floating joyously in summer seas, they are amongst the loveliest ...

    Article : 279 words
  19. NO MORE—

    The pleasures us denied are always valued most... To one we give the heart's deep love sincere; ...

    Article : 52 words
  20. PEACE.

    Would we but learn Thy sterling worth, We fools, who live in enmity. So we could flee from strife and lean On Thee in sweet amenity. ...

    Article : 32 words
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