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  2. ALEXANDRIA

    It was under blue skies dusted with the red sand of the Libya wastes that I rode southward from Alexandria, Egypt's great maritime city, into the desert district of the Mariut. ...

    Article : 605 words
  3. BELGIAN ART.

    In Belgium, where all educated people know something about the arts, one often listened to discussions upon the work of contemporary painters. A name often mentioned puzzled ...

    Article : 988 words
  4. SOUTHERN GERMANY.

    Southern Germany is recognised as one of the most beautiful places in Europe. From Heidelberg we followed the Neckar along a road bordered with fruit trees. These trees ...

    Article : 1,445 words
  5. TYPICAL SUMMER SCENE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF BAVARIA.

    By old-established custom, as in many other lands, men and women work together in the fields. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 24 words
  6. OUR FIRST AUSTRALIA

    Lieutenant Henry W Comber, R.N., had the honour of navigating the first Australia, a teak-built schoner of 85 tons, from Singapore to Sydney, in the year 1849. ...

    Article : 1,378 words
  7. LITERARY BORROWERS

    It was a precept of Ben Jonson (as of his mentor, Horace) that the poet should "draw forth out of the best and choicest flowers with the bee, and turn all to honey." But even ...

    Article : 972 words
  8. FOR THE CHILDREN. AT CEILING TOWN.

    At Celling Town the roads run down In curves like melon wedges, Each hill's a fold of green and gold. The houses have no edges, ...

    Article : 154 words
  9. MUSTERING.

    I don't think I understand horses somehow. I have just come back from a holiday on a farm where I felt very much of a new chum. It used to rather intrigue me the way the ...

    Article : 246 words
  10. DARLING RIVER.

    The Darling River flows slowly and silently between its steep banks, southwards towards Pooncarie, forty miles away by the river road. A sharp hairpin bend, which enables one to ...

    Article : 746 words
  11. AZTEC CALENDAR.

    A specimen of the famous Aztec calendar stone, which also illustrates an Aztec history of the world, a phophecy, and a record of Aztec myths, has been presented to the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 476 words
  12. AFTER SCHOOL.

    Yo yo is in again, marbles, too, but billycarts reign supreme down our street. Road etiquette is non-existent; the greatest feat of all is to tip the other fellow's cart, ...

    Article : 204 words
  13. IMAGININGS.

    Do you see pictures in the clouds As they go by— Magic castles—giants' homes, A dragon-fly? ...

    Article : 80 words
  14. THE WILLIE WAGTAIL.

    What bird is it that hops about the lawn, And jerks his little tall from side to side? What bird is it that early every morn, Awaits me without fall, and does not hide? ...

    Article : 75 words
  15. THE MIDNIGHT THIEF.

    A few nights ago I was awakened by hearing a noise as if someone was picking grapes. It was bright moonlight, and, moving quietly, I arose and went out on to the verandah where ...

    Article : 197 words
  16. WHO.

    Who was a naughty wee girlie to-day? Who lay and kicked on the floor? Wouldn't go out with her brother to play? Banged on the nursery door? ...

    Article : 130 words
  17. WILD BIRD LIFE.

    The budgerigah, shell parrot, or love bird— a species of parrakeet—is probably the smallest species of the parrot family. Slightly larger and more plump than the canary, it ...

    Article : 553 words
  18. THE RIVALS.

    Bim, the Persian, was sithout the slightest doubt, a handsome animal. His misty-grey, fluffy coat, was the envy of all the other cats in the neighbourhood, and especially of ...

    Article : 222 words
  19. THE REGENT HONEY-EATER.

    With his kindred, big ana small, Mong the gum trees, low and tall, Where the nectar-cups are sweeter, Fares the Regent Honey-eater, ...

    Article : 143 words
  20. GREENWELL POINT.

    Just ten miles out from Nowra awaits that haven, fit subject for any artist's brush— Greenwell Point. Through a long avenue of majestic firs we come to it gleaming in ...

    Article : 254 words
  21. AUSTRALIA INVIOLATE.

    Her young face turned towards the Day, Careless and free, in pride Australia stands: Sportive, she speeds the golden hours away. But fails to mark the hour-glass's falling ...

    Article : 212 words
  22. "THE DEVIL'S ELBOW."

    Sharp hair-pin bend on the Darling River. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  23. MAGPIES AT DAWN.

    There is a gum-clad ridge where Down's first flushes Turn slanting leaves to shafts of pink and gold, ...

    Article : 137 words
  24. SERMONS IN STONES.

    Tis but a legend; once an old man stood, Mid evening's shadows, near Jerus lem's gate, Upon the self-same spot where fanatic hate. That doomful day had shed young Stephen's ...

    Article : 121 words
  25. NOW IT IS WINTER.

    Now it is winter, cold the wind blows, The night lies dark at the short day's close, When wind-wings fold in the west and south, Soft sleeps the fog on the harbour mouth. ...

    Article : 101 words
  26. OLD GAELIC HOUSE MOTTO.

    May God bless the dwelling, Each stone, and beam, and [?]tave, All food, and drink, and clothing; May health of men be always there. ...

    Article : 44 words
  27. AMBITION.

    What ecstasy to plant and tend The tree in Youth's bright garden-plot That bears Ambition's cherished fruits, When Youth and Hope have been your lot[?] ...

    Article : 30 words
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