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  2. HISTORIC SWORD

    The sword of the Chevalier Dillon. one of the most picturesque characters in Pacific history, and the man responsible for finding the first relics of the ill-fated La Perouse ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,156 words
  3. INTERESTING RECORDS.

    With the official opening by his Excellenc the Governor (Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven and the Minister for Public Health (Hon. [?] P. Fitzsimons) of the extensions and [?] ...

    Article : 1,651 words
  4. BALMAIN.

    Commencing to-morrow, Balmain is to celebrate, with a week's festivities, the 75th anniversary of its incorporation as a borough. This brings to mind once again the still ...

    Article : 1,607 words
  5. TRAVEL SKETCHES.

    I spent five days at Bristol, in 1905, staying at Keynsham, which may be called a suburb of Bristol, with relatives of my wife, and was there again for a week on my second visit to ...

    Article : 1,525 words
  6. CARNARVON CASTLE, WITH THE EAGLE TOWER.

    Tradition claims the castle, which is one of the noblest ruins in the kingdom, as the birthplace of the first Prince of Wales. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  7. LOUISE MACK.

    With the passing of Louise Mack there ends, it seems to me, a special page in Australia's literature. One of a clever family of writing sisters, Louise stands out by reason ...

    Article : 644 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Two winsome little swallows came winging down our way And built on our verandah a cosy nest of grey. They looked so nicely sheltered behind the ...

    Article : 282 words
  9. "JOE."

    My first encounter with Joe, the gander, was by no means a pleasant one. I had come out from my back gate Into the lane where Joe lives, and was walking quite peacefully ...

    Article : 323 words
  10. "HELD UP."

    "You gib it tobacco, Boss." It was not so much the request as the tone of voice in which it was made that caused me to look up, and then I found it was no request at ...

    Article : 802 words
  11. CLEVER BIRDS.

    In the grounds of a large suburban school, not far distant from where I live, scores of sparrows, pigeons, and doves find crumbs which the pupils drop to the ground during ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. "HAVING ME."

    I couldn't find a pussy in the pussy [?] tree; The shepherd's purse was thin and empty as could be; ...

    Article : 89 words
  13. THE VEIL.

    It was a lovely thing. Made of amethyst and rose, sparkling with dews of the mountain mist, it was delicate as a butterfly's wing. So Timothy thought as he watched the setting ...

    Article : 148 words
  14. OLD MR. JAY-WALKER.

    When old Mr. Jay-Walker come to town. He looked around with an anxious frown, Then jazzed to the left, jazzed to the right. Bumped into people with all his might. ...

    Article : 165 words
  15. AN OLD MAN LOOKING INTO A FIRE.

    Crack-ck[?] A blazing fire shedding its light illumined the hunched figure of an old man, silhouetted sharply against the ruddy blaze. As he looked into the lurid flames, his head ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. FRIDAY NIGHT.

    It is Friday night. The vast, wide-awake city is a maze of human mechanism and human conflicts. Feverish last-minute shoppers jostle one another almost fiendishly in ...

    Article : 238 words
  17. EXIT NOVEMBER.

    A mild autumn morning, And then without warning, Bleak winter with breezes that bite; The mid-summer soon, ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. THE HERMIT-CRAB.

    All the limbs of the hermit-crab appear to be unsymmetrically arranged along its body, doubtless to enable it to inhabit the strange home it selects for itself. Like Diogenes, ...

    Article : 230 words
  19. HAWKESBURY DISTRICT HOSPITAL, WINDSOR.

    The picture shows the building (erected by Macquarie as a barracks in 1820) as it appeared in 1900. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  20. UNUSUAL GARDEN.

    It was not one of those punctilious gardens whose methodical beds and borderings suggest the careful labour of a long-suffering gardener rather than the untampered ...

    Article : 165 words
  21. NOVEMBER LILIES.

    November Lilies! Sculptured, regal, gleaming, Each petalled chalice alabaster white, Gold pollen-dusted; melody is dreaming Within your loveliness of carven light. ...

    Article : 146 words
  22. "AT ANCHOR AT NIGHT BY THE MAPLE BRIDGE."

    a silvery moon steals throueh the murmuring trees, And crows' mistaking, herald it as morn; But hoar-frost fills the air and mist [?] borne ...

    Article : 111 words
  23. AVE!

    O singer of songs whence came you? Out of the pastl Your feet have trodden the ages, By fa[?]th held fast. ...

    Article : 62 words
  24. THE BLUE BIRD.

    Blue bird, you've my heart, though you know it not, As you carol your joy where the sunfiow'rs swing. ...

    Article : 44 words
  25. REMORSE.

    The crafty man, Who rakes the embers of his waste And burns each bill with cautious care, Will find among the ashes there ...

    Article : 42 words
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