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  2. THE EMDEN'S EXPLOITS.

    On Cocos itself we knew that sooner or later and provided the Emden was not sunk, we should receive a visit from her. Nightly we could pick up her Telefunken sending in the ...

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  3. IN CAMP

    The chief qualifications, in days gone by, of an Australian soldier, were to be able to ride a horse and handle a rifle. More is required now. During the last few days one ...

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  4. "BOSTON STUMP."

    The mention of Boston will no doubt suggest to the majority of readers the American city of academic, cultural, and general highbrow note. It is with the ancient English ...

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  5. ADMIRALTY.

    Coloured on their upper surface a mossy bistre-like calipash, and underneath, being there less weathered, tinted, like calipee, a lightish yellow, the freckled rocks at the foot ...

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  6. CALIFORNIA.

    Vancouver rain had dogged us right up to the Californian border, so that we were unable to do justice to the green meadows of the Willamette Valley, with its circle of ...

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  7. WELL-LOVED LANDMARK OF THE FEN COUNTRY.

    The Tower of St. Botolph's Church, Boston's famous "stump." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  8. IF THEY WERE TREES.

    What excellent trees my friends would make! Elizabeth would be a birch. Green skirts lined with shining silver decking her slim form, ...

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  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    When I went over to the Zoo I tried to find the ronkaboo; But though I hunted in and out And up and down and round about ...

    Article : 224 words
  10. POETRY.

    In articles and letters which have appeared from time to time in the "Sydney Morning Herald," many explanations have been given of the decline in poetry as a ...

    Article : 468 words
  11. THE FAIRIES' GLEN.

    One nignt, Oh! late it was and dark— I crept out of my room, I'd heard faint music, low and soft, Come floating through the gloom. ...

    Article : 130 words
  12. PETER AND KARL.

    Opinions' may vary as to the propriety of allowing people to keep Alsatian dogs, but the experience of a Randwick lady serves as a testimonial for at least one member of the ...

    Article : 252 words
  13. THE OLD HAWTHORN TREE.

    Never have I seen such a giant hawthorn tree as that which towered between my playroom window and the western sky of my earliest memories. ...

    Article : 330 words
  14. REMARKABLE SIGNATURE.

    When the Rev. Samuel Marsden came to get the execution from the Maori King at Bay of Whales (New Zealand) of a conveyance of 200 acres on which he founded a large ...

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  15. ADVANTAGES.

    "I wish I were a snail," said Jonn, "So, I could stop up late, And go for walks about the streets, And climb the garden gate." ...

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  16. W. S. GILBERT.

    The observation of centenaries, those reminders of national events and great men, provide opportunity for the demonstration of appreciation and gratitude, and an occasion ...

    Article : 333 words
  17. I WONDER?

    A scraggy, grimy sparrow alighted on one of the wreaths on the Cenotaph in Martinplace, and diligently picked a breakfast of the evergreen flowers. He had to work hard, ...

    Article : 122 words
  18. WHAT OF THE NIGHT

    What of the night? What of the night? God give us grace to answer right. All through the night or Time she, heedless, slept, ...

    Article : 283 words
  19. THE SKY AND EARTH.

    Oh, wouldn't it be lots of fun To run and laugh and shout, Upon the clouds up near the sun, And jump and bounce about! ...

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  20. GRIM'S DYKE, HOME OF W. S. GILBERT.

    The centenary of Gilbert's birth falls on Wednesday next. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  21. INITIATION.

    ".... Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds," When one who loved has ceased to pour largess ...

    Article : 137 words
  22. PEACE.

    Oh, do you know the green hills of the heart, And the quiet water that goes Between them, windingly, where no fears start, And the eyes of sorrow close? ...

    Article : 130 words
  23. COMPLETION.

    He who in idle mood may turn Apart from speech-communion with mankind, Is blest indeed if he discern ...

    Article : 63 words
  24. THE COMING OF THE DROUGHT.

    I have seen him on tne hill-tops, I have glimpsed him in the gullies. Where the leaves are burnt to cinders And the creek-bed cracked and dry; ...

    Article : 59 words
  25. HEREAFTER.

    I wonder if, when life is o'er, We met upon some distant shore, Would we strangers, cold and free, Sound by no ties of memory, ...

    Article : 38 words
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