No days are too long or too hot for the Australian boy when he is given a responsible task in the harvest field. With horses he is always at home, and it is surprising to find how readily he takes to tractors and machinery of all kinds. Lord Forster, speaking in England the other day, described Australian children as the most resourceful he had ever met. He was right—and nowhere is their initiative more apparent than on the farm. There the boy gels the opportunity to show what he is made of New problems have to be faced every day and new difficulties overcome without the advantage of a nearby ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), Wed 30 Dec 1925, Page 11
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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