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  2. PERIM.

    Early one morning of last month the Royal Indian marine sloop Cornwallis stood off Perim, dropped the island malls, some details for the Perim garrison, and myself, then ...

    Article : 1,494 words
  3. A SURPRISE.

    While reading with great interest in your issue of the 22nd inst. Professor Griffith Taylor's second article on the Nepean Ramp, a district well traversed by me an delightful ...

    Article : 650 words
  4. SCIENCE NOTES.

    Reporting on a series of seven experiments Hsi Chun Chang, of the physiology laboratory of the University of Chicago, states that the thyroid gland has a specific effect upon the ...

    Article : 727 words
  5. 1842-1926.

    In January, 1842, Charles Dickens was in Boston, and it occurred to a group of intellectual young men of the town to offer him a dinner. Accordingly, he dined at Papanti's ...

    Article : 1,118 words
  6. NEPEAN RAMP.

    The preceding article dealt with the really striking scenery due to the erosion of the elevated plateau (or ramp) by the Shoalhaven River and its tributaries. We saw that at ...

    Article : 1,269 words
  7. A FIND.

    One afternoon a good many years ago, when exploring a quiet, old, out-of-the-way market town in East Anglia, the writer came upon a little curiosity shop tucked away in a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 749 words
  8. THE VIA RECTA.

    Last month saw the completion of a great and a patriotic movement by the citizens of Warwick and the surrounding districts of the Downs, on which Allan Cunningham first ...

    Article : 1,388 words
  9. IS IT ALIVE?

    Though Royalism is always a live issue in Trance if only on account of the intensive propaganda carried on by its adherents, it usually requires some event of, passing ...

    Article : 1,443 words
  10. FOR THE CHILDREN. THE GANDER.

    In the garden of Amanda Lived a savage, old, grey gander. When she sought to gather eggs, Snap! he went at Mandy's legs. ...

    Article : 60 words
  11. GREAT GRANDPAPA.

    I have a dear Great Grandpapa, Who has travelled near and far. He sits and smokes the whole day long, Humming himself a funny song. ...

    Article : 68 words
  12. LITTLE KNOWN.

    The British navy has been aptly and Justly called the "Silent Service," and to no arm of that service can that term be better applied than to the now defunct navy of the East ...

    Article : 799 words
  13. THE GOLD FISH.

    When Terry was quite very small He came to town to see us all. He lived "out-back," away so far. Where possums, sheep, and wild things are. ...

    Article : 123 words
  14. INVOLUNTARY VOYAGE.

    There appeared off the island of Vella Lavalla, in the British Solomons Group, recently (June 4), a large canoe whose strange appearance, unusual rig, and great dimensions ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 503 words
  15. "SOUR GRAPES."

    A pretty little blue wron, Sat high upon a tree. As hungry and unhappy As a pretty wren could be. ...

    Article : 115 words
  16. SONG IX EXILE.

    I've seen a mort of other lands, And journeyed many seas, And times forgot the Sussex ways, The ancient Sussex ease. ...

    Article : 334 words
  17. DOLLY'S WASHING.

    To soak all day And to soak all night, Under the bubbles so gay, In the queer streaky light, ...

    Article : 140 words
  18. SLUMBER BAY.

    Sleep, baby, sleep, the sky is alight, And the moon swings over the trees. Sleep, baby, sleep, while the fairies sweep Along on the wings of the breeze. ...

    Article : 177 words
  19. THE GNOME.

    Right up under the hill lives a chubby old gnome. And a snuggish warm cave is his cosy wee home. ...

    Article : 169 words
  20. NOON—SYDNEY.

    Noon in Sydney!... Surely your blue has lain Like some rare jewel, hidden in the deep. Dark chests of pirates, till by chance again ...

    Article : 175 words
  21. AN IRRAWADDY SUNSET.

    Mosquitoes hum, a thousand lizards croak, While bats and flying-foxes pass o'erhead;. Behind the mangroves, slender as a thread, into the air ascends a trail of smoke. ...

    Article : 101 words
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