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  2. Struck by Lightning

    I was sheltering under a rock re cently when a vivid flash of lightning seemed to strike the ground about 50 yards in front of me. It lore the ...

    Article : 141 words
  3. SO THEY SAY.

    "For ways that are dark and tricks that are vain, the Heathen Chinee is peculiar," wrote Bret Harte. And if the Heathen Chinee of those days was ...

    Article : 208 words
  4. New Method

    Wampo Charlie had a pain in his back, and throughout the night be wailed to his lubra that he had strained himself on a plurry ...

    Article : 210 words
  5. Ours Only

    Australia has many interesting fea tures without parallel in the world. For instance, in the Great Barrier Reef we have the largest coral reef ...

    Article : 129 words
  6. Crocodile and Bullock

    We were seated round a spluttering gum-twig blaze on the banks of a crocodile-haunted pool. It was a dark, calm night. All at once the ...

    Article : 286 words
  7. The Sugarbag

    Two scrubfallers noticed about 20ft up a large dead box tree a hole into and from which a number of bees seemed to be flying. They decided ...

    Article : 123 words
  8. Decimating The Emu

    Many thousands of emus must have died from thirst and starvation dur ing the drought, and but few eggs were hatched, as the birds seldom ...

    Article : 192 words
  9. Queensland Had Pirates !

    It is not generally known that Queensland once harboured the only real pirates that Australia has ever known. These pirates were a gang of ...

    Article : 174 words
  10. Birds That Hide

    I nominate the common mulberry bird as one of the cleverest birds at hiding. I have often stood under a tree in the scrub, and searched in ...

    Article : 187 words
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  12. Cheque In His Boot

    An overland drover, now deceased, had a novel method of intimating to an employee that he had got the sack. On riding in from his watch on the ...

    Article : 137 words
  13. King of the Air ?

    Jackasses, wedgetailed eagles, and a few of the larger birds appear to fear no others, but I do not think that any bird strikes fear into as many of ...

    Article : 191 words
  14. The Homing Piglet

    A couple of days ago a nine-weeks old piglet was sold to the village baker for sucking pig, and the baker shut piggy up while he had his breakfast. ...

    Article : 91 words
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