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  2. THE ART OF LISTENING.

    Some people think the word "musician" means a person who can sing a song beautifully or who can play an instrument, but it is a fact that inherently musical people have ...

    Article : 735 words
  3. OPAL.

    Not so very far from where the salt waters of Lake Cadibarrawirracanna glisten in the sun live the cave people. To be more geographically explicit, this community of white ...

    Article : 1,732 words
  4. OXFORD.

    Eights Weck at Oxford—May tune in England—those few short weeks between the seasons when the promises of spring have not yet found their fulfilment in summer, and ...

    Article : 975 words
  5. FIRST PACIFIC STEAMER

    When I was writing my book, "Pacific Steamers," which covers most of the ports and all the routes in the Pacific, the question as to which was the first steamer to run in ...

    Article : 1,122 words
  6. LIGHTNING RIDGE, A CENTRE OF OPAL MINING.

    The picture shows a section of the field in this remote and rugged outpost, the home of the black opal. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 28 words
  7. LAMBRIGG.

    From Canberra, the village of Tharwa lies about 25 miles south, where the road, which runs nearly parallel to the Queanbeyan-Cooma railway line, crosses the Mu[?]bidgee River ...

    Article : 779 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    I know a house, a little house, where dreamy roses-grow, A violet by the tumbling brook and snowdrops in a row; ...

    Article : 110 words
  9. A JOY RIDE.

    I had paid my shilling to the white-suited attendant, and now stood restlessly on the steps of the little wharf on the promenade at Manly. Excitement and joyful expectancy ...

    Article : 333 words
  10. MARY STEWART.

    Mary, Queen of Scots, has had biographers ana students innumerable, but few of them women. This fact is perhaps significant, and now, when the well-known historical novelist, ...

    Article : 947 words
  11. SKY BLUE.

    An elfin artist found a patch Of clear blue sky outside his door, He cut it up in slender strips, And laid them on his workroom floor. ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. THE "NIGHTINGALE"

    While in Kyoto, Mr. Latham visited the old Imperial Palace, which is, perhaps, the most interesting of all the palaces and castles in Japan, for, apart from its wonderful wall ...

    Article : 430 words
  13. OPAL GOUGER AT WORK.

    An everyday scene at Lightning Ridge. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  14. LINK WITH THE PAST.

    It has been remarked by a New Zealand historian that a curious thing about the indigenous fauna of the country is that it included no quadrupeds with the exception ...

    Article : 481 words
  15. TRAFFIC.

    Timidly poised on the edge of the gutter "You watch the cars pass with your heart all a-flutter; Helpless and dazed in the midst of this welter ...

    Article : 105 words
  16. THE SPIRIT OF THE CREEK.

    The fierce sun beat down upon a parched earth and through the leafless trees near the creek as though it was anxious to dry up the last few pools of water. ...

    Article : 249 words
  17. THE LOCKED GATES.

    Now that the Royal Military College has gone from Duntroon, probably never to return, the Shadows of the Campbells loom more clearly than ever over the area which was once ...

    Article : 301 words
  18. RUBBISH HEAPS.

    Seldom can one walk through a patch of scrub bordeiing Suburbia, without coming aeioss a rubhish heap—much to the disgust of many a tidy-minded citizen. But to one of ...

    Article : 320 words
  19. RAINDROPS.

    Raindrops are such magical things, sparkling and transparent. They are as frail as the airiest dream, or the most unsubstantial of cloud castles. ...

    Article : 139 words
  20. JUST DADDY.

    They ask [?] what I'd like to be. When I am twenty-two or three. But then, you see, I'm only six. It puts me in a sort of fix! ...

    Article : 62 words
  21. FARRER'S LABORATORY.

    Viewed from the field in which the wheat [?]r his experiments was grown. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 19 words
  22. SOUTHERLY.

    Across the wide ocean sweep and race. Come, take the city in thy embrace. Southerly! Southerly! Oh, strong, cool Lover of fevered face ...

    Article : 150 words
  23. BURRAGORANG VALLEY.

    Here, where the long road dips, I turn, Pause in delight akin to tears; For on the cliffs before me burn The sunsets of ten thousand years. ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. TRUE TREASURES.

    Restrain the wish lest it become a want- The want so oft becomes an urgent need; Desires unfetlend plenish well the font Of nourishment of that fell tyrant Greed. ...

    Article : 95 words
  25. THE NIGHTINGALE.

    Oh, Nightingale that sa[?] the day to sleep! As evening spread in folds of silver grey. Soft robes of light above a woodland bay. And I. from love's first cup, drank lone and ...

    Article : 72 words
  26. THE MISER.

    I dreamt I was a miser, With hoarded gold galore; I woke, a man the wiser, And hoarded gold no more. ...

    Article : 26 words
  27. ADVENTURE.

    Great galleons, braving unknown seas: Faint cloud shapes on the distant blue. White, billowing sails upon the breeze— Spain's [?]sure ships from far [?]rul ...

    Article : 24 words
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