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  2. Rain Gauge!

    It had rained at the camp, and heavy clouds had gathered to the south—a dried-out region we were anxious to prospect. Towards evening ...

    Article : 125 words
  3. SO THEY SAY.

    "Ringer" asks what is the best measured hop of a kangaroo (Queenslander, 4/10/34). A leap of 72ft. has been claimed for it in Victoria. I ...

    Article : 279 words
  4. A Bush Burial

    During 1920 I received my first appointment in the Queensland Education Department, and was sent to a small western town down the ...

    Article : 292 words
  5. Noah Was Careless

    The potato crop of an old German farmer, one of the "dad" type, was being ravaged by kangaroo rats. One morning he had captured one of the ...

    Article : 91 words
  6. Track Faddists

    Some men who "hit the pad" refuse to sleep unless they are in a community of their fellows; others unless they have a roof over their ...

    Article : 168 words
  7. Some Dog!

    I met a man at Gayndah the other day who was a fanatic about kangaroo dogs. After a tense argument about the merits and demerits of the ...

    Article : 157 words
  8. Wrong End

    A nephew of mine, a little chap of five from the city, was spending a holiday with his grandparents down on the South Coast, and was very ...

    Article : 64 words
  9. Snake and Flying Fox

    Carpet snakes sometimes choose queer meals. One morning I saw a bulging carpet snake under a fig tree. I thought it had swallowed a hen, so I ...

    Article : 112 words
  10. Mud Plasters

    I have often heard people say that the aborigines' habit of using mud to plaster cuts, spear wounds, &c, is a filthy and unhygienic habit. ...

    Article : 213 words
  11. Not Reliable

    Though a pig-trough looks more elegant when made of concrete or of sawn timber, most of us make one by knocking slabs out of a hollow log ...

    Article : 222 words
  12. Many Unfortunately Did Not

    "Angus" (Queenslander 13/9/34) reminds me of two horses I was looking after in an artillery camp in the late summer of 1918. They were greys and ...

    Article : 98 words
  13. Lost Dayboro Mine

    Lost gold mines always waken one's imagination; nevertheless, they never seem to be found. Take Lassetter's lost mine and the aeroplane searches for ...

    Article : 195 words
  14. A Bird Problem

    If birds cannot talk they can communicate ideas to each other, else how explain the following?—On my place at Southbrook a pair of butcher birds ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. Catching Crocodiles

    The crocodile mentioned by "V" (Queenslander 27/9/34) probably had gorged itself to repletion and was uninterested until the dog entered the ...

    Article : 275 words
  16. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 251 words
  17. Hog and Horrors

    In Widgee town Joe Blank kept a pub and a pig, the latter fattening on the scraps from the former. There came a day when a certain keg of ...

    Article : 137 words
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