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  2. AUSTRALIAN BIRDS.

    In nature, colour mimicry is often essential in order to save life, and among birds the females are much more in need of special protection while sitting upon their nests, ...

    Article : 1,342 words
  3. IRAQ.

    One of the most interesting items of news in these days of interesting happenings is the cabled announcement that Britain's mandate over Iraq is about to come to an end, leaving ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 933 words
  4. HEALTH HEROES.

    The month of May brings to mind two of the greatest and most real heroes of the world-Florence Nightingale and Edward Jenner. On May 12, 1820, whilst Mr. and Mrs. ...

    Article : 831 words
  5. REYKJAVIK, THE CAPITAL OF ICELAND.

    The world's most isolated capital seen under winter conditions. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 17 words
  6. ULTIMA THULE.

    In this age of modern civilisation the cry at the contemporary generation is, as it always has been, for emancipation, whilst with it goes a strong revulsion of feeling against the ...

    Article : 1,488 words
  7. THE UPPER NEPEAN.

    Out from Bowral eastward lie the country homes adorning the rolling countryside. Beyond the golf links stretch well-fenced paddocks, where breeding ewes, fat lambs, and herds of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 479 words
  8. DIVER.

    Diver—that is what we call our dog. It is really a derivation of Godiva; although how she came by that name goodness only knows, for, being a pure-bred cattle dog, she has not ...

    Article : 533 words
  9. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    Why do I call him "Spider"? So you'd really like to know? T'was when he was a puppy, Oh! not very long ago. ...

    Article : 268 words
  10. OLD NORTH SHORE.

    The photograph published herewith shows) the civic and shopping centre of the borough of St. Leonards, taken on an old-fashioned wet plate negative in 1860. The date is fixed by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 609 words
  11. RAIN.

    It's raining in the forest. It's raining on the hill; I hear the thunder roaring The rain is coming still ...

    Article : 94 words
  12. WHICH WON?

    The animals in the ark were feeling glum and out of sorts, so Captain Noah, to cheer them up, arranged to hold some sports, and this is what H. Hippopotamus (of the ...

    Article : 283 words
  13. THE BAT.

    Tiny, tiny flitmouse, I'm sure you're much too soon, The sun rests on the hilltops, There's no sign of the moon. ...

    Article : 196 words
  14. CONSTITUTED AUTHORITY.

    According to a writer in a journal published a hundred and thirty-four years ago, the Australian native was living in "that state of nature common to all men previous to their ...

    Article : 372 words
  15. CATTLE STAMPEDED.

    Wild bullocks in a tropical storm, scrub and rough country all around us, boggy ground and darkness coming on, create conditions that are not easy to cope with. I left Oenpelli ...

    Article : 387 words
  16. GRACE DARLING'S FATHER.

    Sixty-seven years ago to-day the heroic Grace Darling's father died at Bamborough, Northumberland, England. He was for many years keeper of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 192 words
  17. AUTUMN

    In the dim distance the huge mass of Ben Lomond bulks heavenward to the skies of God. Here, on the New England uplands, the ...

    Article : 384 words
  18. THE ARCHIBALD MEMORIAL.

    Within a city street I walked, All lonely in the crowd, Wearied I of the stress and strain And the noises, high and loud. ...

    Article : 185 words
  19. FELIX ALFREDUS.—A.P.B.

    To-day my friend is eighty-one; He tells his tale with no regret: His brave old eyes are steadfast yet, His heart the brightest in the sun. ...

    Article : 121 words
  20. ICEBOUND.

    Why is my spirit frozen As if in icy clutch? Life of my heart, my chosen, Say, have I loved too much? ...

    Article : 88 words
  21. OH, GOD, TO YOU I PRAY.

    Oh, God, to You I pray, That this small, curved bay Will seem the same if I return some day. May I still find a thrill ...

    Article : 68 words
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