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  2. JUHO RISSANEN.

    The writer de la Tourasse, in presenting to the American public the Finnish painter Juho Rissanen, says that Finland had, in the Middle Ages a flourishing civilisation which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 627 words
  3. N.Z. EARTHQUAKE.

    Beyond the low concrete wall that borders the Marine-parade the surf rolls lazily upon a black gravelly beach, and the tops of the Norfolk Island pines skirting the bay ...

    Article : 894 words
  4. STILL CREEK.

    Still Creek, a tiny tributory of Berowa Creek, quite close to Hornsby, is fast becoming the playground of those marvellous songsters of bushland, the lyre birds. This ...

    Article : 392 words
  5. SEA OFFICERS.

    Come all you landsmen bold. And lend an ear; 'Tis of our Admiral's fame That you shall hear. ...

    Article : 1,617 words
  6. "ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON:" A CARICATURE BY GILLRAY.

    The artist depicted George III. restraining rather than rewarding Rodney after his great victory. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 23 words
  7. NONAGENARIAN TEACHER.

    The early days of the late Mr. David Wright Harrison, a retired schoolmaster, who died at Manly recently in his 91st year, recall an almost forgotten period of American history ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 294 words
  8. BIDDY.

    I have already written about our pup Tim, and our bantam Judy. Now I am going to tell you all about Biddy, our pussy. She is about four months old, and was born ...

    Article : 331 words
  9. MILITIA TRAINING.

    In these hard times, the standing camp has been eliminated from the training programmes of our militia forces. In its place we have the bivouac, which is more economical, at the ...

    Article : 1,085 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN.

    (Prize-winning Poem in the Australia Forest League's annual competition.) Haill Kookaburra, laughing sprite, Never was bird, I ween, so bold ...

    Article : 257 words
  11. THE GREEN MONDAY.

    On that summer morning January l8, 1788, when Captain Phillip's party landed on the sands of Botany Bay, among the first sounds which assailed their [?]ars was the insistent ...

    Article : 1,027 words
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    "The Fortune Teller," by the Finnish artist, Rissanen. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 8 words
  13. A SUNSET.

    We are deep lovers of nature and of beauty, my wife and I, and we sat out to see the sunset. We faced south. The far-away hills to the left had caught the gleam of gold ...

    Article : 325 words
  14. GOVERNOR GAME LOOKOUT.

    By clearing a short track off Garie Beach-road, 650ft above sea level, just at the turn where it commences to descend to the ocean frontage, the trustees of the National Park ...

    Article : 485 words
  15. OLD SYDNEY.

    Alighting from the tram, I dodged a number of incredibly dirty urchins mounted on decrepit trolleys, skirted a pack of yapping, fighting dogs, gained the comparative security of the ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. FLANNEL FLOWERS.

    Huge masses of rock jutted over the sandy path leading to the Fairy Dell, Mount Victoria. Above them stood clumps of lofty gum trees, and here and there were groups of ...

    Article : 214 words
  17. SHOPPING DAY.

    Joan and Pat are off to-day, Shopping in the Great White Way. Luring windows, diamond bright, Are Mecca of a child's delight. ...

    Article : 84 words
  18. WEB TO LET.

    There is a little spider web In the corner of my room. I won't tell anyone, because They'd sweep it with a broom. ...

    Article : 76 words
  19. BELLBIRD CREEK.

    Just by happy chance I found its Fairy face; For the ranges running round it Veiled the place. ...

    Article : 137 words
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    The Green Monday and Pupa. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 5 words
  21. THE PHANTOM OF THE MISTS.

    Soft sweep the mists about me and around The trees and hills—in phantom wings enwound They seem like ghosts, bound by some mystic ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. SMOKE WRAITHS.

    Pale languid wraiths, you lift with vain desire White arms to supplicate unheeding skies, As, smooth and slow, you wreath and flow and rise ...

    Article : 104 words
  23. FETTERED LOVE.

    I found it in a valley darkly green— A tiny flower, that blossomed there, unseen, A tender bloom of beauty rich and rare, whose fragrance seemed to fill the very air; ...

    Article : 103 words
  24. FRIENDSHIP.

    "Beauty is dead," My heart said. That very hour You brought me a flower; ...

    Article : 28 words
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