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  2. TREADING THE WINEPRESS.

    WE may read in Scripture of the patient oxen treading out the corn. To-day, in the more remote villages of the Italian Maritime Alps, the ...

    Article : 1,239 words
  3. THE BIRTH OF A RAILWAY.

    (Late Electrical Accountant for Railways). Although there was a whisper from England in 1845 suggestive of the investment of British capital in railways ...

    Article : 1,425 words
  4. WHERE WORDSWORTH LIVED AND DIED.

    The recent "Herald" picture of Wordsworth's "Dove Cottage" in the English Lake District induced several correspondents to send other photographs of the poet's surroundings. Above is Rydal Mount, Wordsworth's home from 1813 until his death in 1850. The second picture shows the poet's grave in Grasmere churchyard. His daughter, Dora Quillinan, is buried ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  5. OIL OF IRAQ.

    In the past, across the Syrian Desert, marched the armies of conquest, pillage, and slaughter. But in our time, only a few years ago, came another ...

    Article : 560 words
  6. LIFE ON A LUGGER With the Japanese Pearlers.

    NIGHT had fallen when our small and heavily-laden dinghy pushed off from Darwin wharf. Japanese sailors, stripped to the waist, with piratical-looking handkerchiefs swathed round their long black hair, chanted a plaintive sea ditty as they pulled the massive oars ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 2,484 words
  7. For the Children.

    I dearly love the tiny towns. With little streets all ups and downs. And friendly gates all open wide As if to beckon me inside. ...

    Article : 192 words
  8. ACROSS THE WORLD BY FERRY.

    Something of the adventurous spirit of the pioneers of bygone days animated the men who sailed from Leith, Scotland, for Sydney in the new ...

    Article : 691 words
  9. HALLOW-E'EN.

    Hnllow-E'en, of All Hallow Even (also known locally in some districts of England as Nutcrack night and Snapapple night) is the name given to the night of October 31, as ...

    Article : 438 words
  10. MORE CURIOSITIES OF THE BIBLE.

    The joke about the man who wrote the eulogy of his son which ran, "My son, my pigmy counterpart," but which appeared as "My son, my pig, my ...

    Article : 701 words
  11. DOROTHY PERKINS.

    Dorothy Perkins has come to town Arrayed In a marvellous green-leaf gown. But Dorothy covers her charming dress With a mantle of radiant loveliness. ...

    Article : 54 words
  12. THE WAY OF IT.

    They said love must, have time and place. But where we met—do you recall? It was a human-trampled street. And sober rain began to fall: ...

    Article : 108 words
  13. SYDNEY REJOICES OVER A "MAGNIFICENT" WORK.

    The railway viaduct over Long Cove (Lewisham) completed in 1854. (See article on this page.) ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. "BOTTLE-BRUSHES" AT WAVERTON.

    To commemorate the Silver Jubilee of King George V. and Queen Mary in 1935. the North Sydney Municipal Council planted an avenue of "bottle brush" trees along Bay Road, ...

    Article : 176 words
  15. NAPOLEON'S PET TORTOISE STILL ALIVE.

    On the tiny island of St. Helena, in the South Atlantic, where Napoleon died in exile, there is a tortoise that enjoys the distinction of being the only known creature now alive ...

    Article : 180 words
  16. SONNET.

    Now would I speak of Love that does not die. Listen! It is the March wind in the trees. Stirring afresh the branches, and soughing by Over the Autumn lands and the sapphire seas. ...

    Article : 121 words
  17. BLACK AND WHITE.

    Shadowed now the pale trees stand And rain-pools lie between, Dark as ink upon the track Down where the rain has been. ...

    Article : 53 words
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