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  2. EIGHTY YEARS AGO.

    Thursday, September 26, marked an important anniversary in the history of railway construction in New South Wales. On that day eighty years previously the Sydney to ...

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  3. WILD BIRD LIFE.

    The peewee, sometimes known as the magpie lark, is probably the best-known of our black and white birds, and with the exception perhaps of the large black and white ...

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  4. SYDNEY RAILWAY STATION IN 1856.

    The terminal station was originally known as Redfern, and consisted of only one platform. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  5. EUROPEANS IN BENGAL

    Terrorism—that fateful word probably conveys little if anything to you who live safely and in comparative peace in this sunny land of Australia, but to those who have lived in ...

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  6. BEAUTY OF PALMS.

    Nearly every group of palms has a decorative beauty of its own. It is somewhat remarkable that our landscape gardeners have not used more varieties in the beautification ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. TROUT FISHING.

    Let me live quietly and by the brink or Trent or Avon have my dwelling place, where I may see my bobbing float down sink With eager bite ot perch or bleak or dace: ...

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  8. "FLOTSAM."

    Those who wait by the edges of flooded rivers to salvage live-stock or anything else of value that is carried along by the current, have, in their time, discovered many strange ...

    Article : 337 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    The Lizard and the Platypus Were walking on the shore. They'd met and chummed together A week or two before. ...

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  10. SHAKESPEARES

    Shakespeare we know, butchered to make a pedant's holiday, sacrificed upon the altar of school examinations. Homer, too, we have heard of. and Dante and Virgil. The names ...

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  11. SONNET ON THINKING.

    What Joy to write a verse without the load Of pond'rous thought! For always 'tis deep pain Upon a plotted course to guide the brain, ...

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  12. THE FIRST BLOOM.

    I was so very proud of my rose bush when years ago I planted it beneath my window. Romantic thoughts hung around the tiny shrub. I watered, I pruned, I cared for it with ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. CAMPHOR LAURELS.

    Is there any tree that, has a more varied beauty at present than the camphor laurel? All the hillsides round the harbour and the garden suburbs are brightenend with patches of ...

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  14. THE MASQUERADER.

    Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Teddy and Billy watched him fall, His head didn't break, His legs didn't shake. ...

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  15. "JOEY" PASSES ON.

    We are indebted to the "Journal of the Kew Guild" for the news that "Joey" the crane, who, for nearly twenty years, lived at Kew Gardens (England) has passed on to ...

    Article : 163 words
  16. THE PORPOISE OR "THE SEA-HOG."

    "When the sea-hog jumps, Look to your pumps!" So old sailormen say. For well they know ...

    Article : 79 words
  17. GERALDTON WAX FLOWER.

    That the growing of Australian wild flowers and shrubs can be a pleasurable delight to the home gardener there is not the slightest doubt, for it is becoming more and more fully ...

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  18. THE TWINS.

    There is great rejoicing in the 'possum family that lives in the guttering of our roof; mother 'possum descended to the verandah, waddled up and down, and scratched on the ...

    Article : 107 words
  19. PATRICIA.

    Prayers have been said, And Patricia's a-bed. Two small shoes are beneath her chair, Two red ribbons from off her hair. ...

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  20. TROUT-FISHING IN THE MURRUMBIDGEE.

    "Bait the hook well, this fish will bite." —Shakespeare, "Much Ado About Nothing." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  21. CENTRAL AUSTRALIA.

    The Yass-Canberr[?] highlands—the Gunning district in particular—are not the only parts of Australia subject to mysterious earth noises and 'quakes. One night, when camped on ...

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  22. FROM BULLI LOOKOUT.

    Par below the country lay, bright, iridescent in the morning sun. Not a breath of wind stirred the almost tropical green that swept up like a stilled forest to the very edge of the ...

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  23. DESERT

    Outside Broken Hill I stand on the edge of the desert, while the night falls softly around me. Slowly and majestically the moon advances ...

    Article : 135 words
  24. NELSON SAILS AGAIN.

    (September 29 will the 177th anniversary of Lord Nelson's birth. On the occasion of the Silver Jubilee Review, at Spithead, a model of Nelson's famous ship, the Victory, sailed in the pageant ...

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  25. THE ROADWAYS BY THE QUAY.

    Roads that are straight and well laid out Never could interest me, For I love the streets that twist about— The roadways by the Quay. ...

    Article : 87 words
  26. FINIS.

    The hour has come—I go beyond the sea; She nods her head—'tis her good-bye to me. I stand, all tremnious, within her door; She sits content, and smiles, and nothing ...

    Article : 78 words
  27. HYDE PARK BY NIGHT.

    'Tis surely here that Freedom comes to dream! The spacious grandeur of its lawns wideflung. ...

    Article : 47 words
  28. EVENTIDE.

    They say she has grown elderly and grey, One that was once so youthful and so fair; How blind they are, for it is eventide, And see—the moon casts silver on her hair. ...

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