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  2. IN THE NINETIES.

    What a wonderful place was the Sydney of the ninetiesl The sunshine was more mellow then, and the wattle blossom more golden— or perhaps it was that they appeared so, ...

    Article : 836 words
  3. THE PATHFINDERS.

    The record of pioneering exploration in the islands of New Zealand differs in one special feature from that of similar enterprise in Australia. Some of the men who won fame ...

    Article : 1,478 words
  4. THE BARRIER REEF.

    Animal life teemed in the lagoon. AM sorts of creatures of strange shapes, and often radiant in startling colours, moved about freely in the open or lurked In shelter under the ...

    Article : 1,640 words
  5. OLD BOYS OF ST. MARK'S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, MACQUARIE FIELDS, 1859-68.

    The group was taken in front of the old headmaster's residence, July 11, 1931. Standing: Dr. Wm, Chisholm, H. H. Massie, W. G. Collings (master), Dr. Edward J. Jenkins, S. R. Corkhill. Sitting: Fred Blaxland, E. F. Stephen, E. J. Cobcroft, Dr. Walter Blaxland. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 54 words
  6. MACQUARIE FIELDS.

    Situated midway between Liverpool and Campbelltown there is a property which is full of historic interest. In February, 1800, an Irishman named ...

    Article : 1,218 words
  7. METEORITE CRATERS.

    While the exterior of a meteorite is so highly heated, as to be actually fused in its rapid transit through the earth's atmosphere, the interior ot a meteorite Is intensely cold; in ...

    Article : 849 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. BEAUTIFUL FAIRY.

    Beautiful Fairy, all in blue, Skipping about among the dew, Beautiful silver clothes you wear, And these. I hope, you will not tear. ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. THE WONDERS OF NIGHT.

    It is not for us to analyse the night, its wonders. its mysteries. We can only speak of them in rapt admiration, and awe. The soft, velvety, black darkness steals over ...

    Article : 353 words
  10. WINNING OF GOLD.

    Wherever the beckoning finger of gold is upraised, there are always crowds of ready followers; the first of whom, though they may win the greater prizes, suffer the worst ...

    Article : 1,268 words
  11. IS THAT A MERMAID?

    Is that a mermaid over there, With shining tall and wavy hair? With fishes flashing to and fro, Their scales of silver all aglow? ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. TINY.

    He was a dear, shaggy pony, small, as his name signifies. Tiny was but 11 hands in height, note quite as large as a Shetland pony, but the smallest full-grown pony in ...

    Article : 458 words
  13. LAWSON AND MUSIC.

    It is not usual to associate Henry Lawson with the musical art, his works being more reminiscent of the cracking of stockwhips, and the creak of the mining windlass. ...

    Article : 690 words
  14. STREET MUSICIANS.

    When e'er I walk up Hunter-street I hear the sound of music sweet And sad A lad ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. A FIREMAN.

    I want to be a fireman. I'd Just love to be a fireman, With a helmet that would look like shiny gold. But I would hate to be one if I couldn't put ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. "THE HEART OF THE SWAG."

    "The Heart of the Swag" was written by Henry Lawson some time during January, 1906, at the request of Mr. J. G. Lockley, who published it in the "Amateur Gardener," of ...

    Article : 355 words
  17. WAU, HEADQUARTERS OF THE NEW GUINEA GOLDFIELDS.

    Once seven days from the coast, but now a mere thirty or forty minutes by aeroplane. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 25 words
  18. THE COMING OF SPRING.

    Spring passed me by to-day, as through the glade She ran with naked feet and ungirt thigh. And lol I saw, as she swept faun-fleet by. ...

    Article : 119 words
  19. WISH.

    Of old, life lay before me, broad and fair As a lost kingdom in a far-off land, More beautiful than men could understand Who had not with wide eyes beheld it there. ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. CLAY.

    Only an idol of clay, but still I worshipped deeply with downbent head. Only a little tin god, and yet Music to me were the words she said. ...

    Article : 64 words
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