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  2. Brolg[?] Ballet

    THE most enduring and touching of all bush partnerships is that between the male brolga and his feathered consort. I am ashamed to admit them ...

    Article : 198 words
  3. Sea Chameleon

    I Have heard numerous tales about the remarkable colour-changing powers of the chameleon, but what about a species of sea-squid known ...

    Article : 208 words
  4. So They Say

    A PACK of dogs started up a fox and chased it into a hollow sloping tree. The fox could be heard scrambling up inside the hollow ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. Help!

    BRITAIN can still export a decent fish yarn when pressed. I read a story in "Field," describing the catching of a grayling, a brisk and lively ...

    Article : 111 words
  6. Grim Monuments

    IN the Burketown police station, one of the most isolated outposts of the law in the far north of Queensland, there are many grim relics of ...

    Article : 131 words
  7. Winds Him

    WHEN a thrasher shark hurls itself at a whale from a 15ft. leap it knocks blazes out of the big fellow, and makes him belch. The thrasher ...

    Article : 103 words
  8. Super Blanket

    THE Wagga rug or the Murrumbidgee blanket, made from bags, are well known in most parts of Australia, but recently I saw a blanket which was ...

    Article : 111 words
  9. Spiky

    THERE is at least one man who will regret the passing of the prickly pear, if ever that pest is completely wiped out. He is a trapper camped in ...

    Article : 160 words
  10. Outguessed Reynard

    INSTEAD of rounding-up sheep at a sheep-dog trial at Charleville (Q.), a few years ago, a dog yarded a fox. Hearing a scurrying noise behind him ...

    Article : 102 words
  11. It's A Secret

    ON the island of Boigu, a few miles south of the Papuan border, there is an island population which is curiously light in pigment hue, but ...

    Article : 121 words
  12. Not So Lucky

    "VARIO" (Queenslander, 4.2.37) was indeed lucky to stop that shark with one bullet from a service rifle. I have pumped bullets from a Savage ...

    Article : 106 words
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    THERE is one property the papaw possesses which is not generally known, but at least one man made good use of it. He bought up all the ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. Turncoat

    ON Merriman's property, at Bookham (N.S.W.), a black ewe turned white. It isn't known exactly when the change took place, but shearing revealed a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 67 words
  15. Caste!

    SOMEONE once said that the Papuan is the true democrat. Reading some evidence given in a Port Moresby Police Court by a native shop assistant, I am ...

    Article : 105 words
  16. Sacred Trees

    AN interesting old-time custom on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides group, was the right of sanctuary. Every now and then a chief ...

    Article : 134 words
  17. "Holy Spider"

    ONE of the fiercest of all spiders is the Holy Spider, named from his habit of building a web, which, bears, cutting across its centre, a perfect ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. Whoopee!

    HERE'S another piece of "information" gleaned from a Midlands (England) publication!—It explains the manner of catching wild horses in ...

    Article : 81 words
  19. "The Nark"

    BECAUSE of a woman's powers of observation, a man, whose house and effects were destroyed by a midnight fire, not only failed to collect ...

    Article : 115 words
  20. Classified Advertising

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    Advertising : 263 words
  21. All Prepared

    FOR 15 years Murphy put aside his savings from wages as a farm worker so as to have the kind of funeral he wanted. He died last year ...

    Article : 77 words
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