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  2. So They Say

    A selector's wife, who lives where spotted bower birds are common, has a suspicion that there is often design in the birds' mimicry. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 237 words
  3. The Wrong Answer

    A canny Scot in an endeavour attract tourists to a holiday resort boasted of the many attractions he had to offer them. Among these was ...

    Article : 137 words
  4. Feats of Droving

    Many a good bridge is made without Government assistance in back parts of the bush. One of the longest I know was built over the Koopa ...

    Article : 204 words
  5. Instinct or Intelligence?

    At a certain season of the year the islands along the Great Barrier Reef are invaded nightly by hordes of female "green" turtles, which go ashore ...

    Article : 268 words
  6. The Soft Answer

    A surburban "Clergyman tells this story of a man from whom he endeavoured to extract a contribution towards the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 112 words
  7. Fairy Lamps

    Concerning glow – worms, about which "Koopa" inquired in a recent Queenslander, W. W. Proggatt, N.S.W. entomologist, says: "The male is a ...

    Article : 233 words
  8. Real Burglar Alarm

    Many farmers, and some town dwellers, too, keep a carpet snake in their sheds to kill rats and mice. They are better ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 179 words
  9. Primitive Egg Storage

    Blacks of the hinterlands are necessarily more provident than their cousins of the coastal regions. In the egg season, when flood rains have ...

    Article : 237 words
  10. Cow Sense!

    A dairyman, at Gilmore near Tumut (N.S.W.), owns a Shorthorn cow that has a strong claim to a world's record. She is more than 30 years old, has ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. Waged War on Bligh

    On Saibai, Boigu, and Daunan Islands, fringing the Papuan mainland, the natives hold regattas in their lone graceful outrigger canoes, ...

    Article : 154 words
  12. Stone Throwers Keep Out

    An old-age pensioner at [?] Queensland, by the sea, owns wh[?] perhaps the strangest habitation[?] Australia. The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  13. Agile Anglers

    For sheer beauty of variegated hues the crayfish of northern tropical waters is without parallel. He is a much prized delicacy amongst the ...

    Article : 99 words
  14. No Gentleman

    In the tropical scrub of North Queensland is found the green-treeant. These remarkable insects are probably the fiercest of all Australian ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. Modern Chivalry

    It happened in a tram car during the peak hour. The charming Miss and her Cavalier from the Country stepped aboard only to find every seat ...

    Article : 104 words
  16. Lizard's Merry-go-round

    Dwellers in the tropics come to love the tiny gheko lizards, which by their voracious capacity for insects prove useful as well as pleasurable ...

    Article : 106 words
  17. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 38 words
  18. Something for All

    For more than an hour I had withstood the pleadings and persuasions of the Indian hawker, even though he assured me that he was selling "at ...

    Article : 77 words
  19. The Evil Eye

    Do snakes hypnotise birds? I leave it to you. The other day I saw a magpie sitting on the ground in front of a slowly approaching carpet snake. ...

    Article : 83 words
  20. BEN AND BILL

    {No abstract available} [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 5 words
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