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  2. FROM A CHAIR IN THE SUN

    "Take down your golden wings now from their hook behind the door. The wind comes calling from the West and you must fly once more. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 599 words
  3. COUNTRY BREEZES

    Letters must be very short and brightly written. Two half-crown prizes and colored certificates very week for the brightest and ...

    Article : 25 words
  4. THUMBS-UP

    Seven-shillings-and-sixpence, five shillings, and a half-crown prizes for three best jokes each week. If two or more send in same, first ...

    Article : 1,088 words
  5. CATCH=AS=CATCH=CAN

    A most ingenious paradox. We've quips and quibbles heard in flocks. But none to beat this paradox. Ha! ho! ha! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho!" ...

    Article : 36 words
  6. COMPETITION CORNER

    COLORED CERTIFICATES. -- Purple equals 4 marks: Blue, 3 marks; Red, 2 marks; Orange, 1 mark. When you have a total of 25 marks, post certificates to the Editor, in a long unsealed envelope, marked "Sun Cards Only." A substantial cash prize will be awarded, and the ...

    Article : 406 words
  7. CATCHING A WHALE

    I used to live with my parents at Twofold Bay. Nearly every Sunday my father and brothers went whale-hunting. ...

    Article : 182 words
  8. BEFORE AND AFTER USING

    This is the reply a certain man made to a firm after using their hair restorer: -- "Dear Sir, -- When first I used your hair restorer. my hair was short and stubby. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 59 words
  9. AN AMUSING "CATCH"

    Place a glass upside down on a table, and beside it lay three wooden matches. Then challenge a friend to lift and place on top of the glass one of the matches ...

    Article : 107 words
  10. NOT A SNAKE THIS TIME

    My father told me that me wet afternoon, while he was out driving sheep on the western plains, he had to pitch his camp owing to the heavy ...

    Article : 134 words
  11. A BALANCING TRICK

    Ask your friend if he can balance a corner of a ruler on his finger for any ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 75 words
  12. COLORED PICTURE COMPETITION

    The Persian rug-weavers work upon platforms supported by ladders. They start weaving from the floor, raising the platform as the work goes on. They spare no labor, and weave so much love of beauty into their work that Persian carpets are famed all over the world, and bring ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 83 words
  13. HELPING OUR DUMB FRIENDS

    There are many people who keep horses for various kinds of work. Take a day's work for a dray horse drawing stone, for instance. We wonder how ...

    Article : 310 words
  14. THE HAUNTED ROOM

    My father was once boarding at a house in the mallee. The house was supposed to be haunted, but the owners stayed there, and nothing ...

    Article : 200 words
  15. THE STUDY OF LOGIC

    Prove that a sheet of ruled paper is a lazy young dog? A sheet of ruled paper is an ink-lined plain, is it not? And an inclined plane is ...

    Article : 110 words
  16. DRINKING EXTRAORDINARY.

    Into a champag[?]e glass pour some clear syrup made by dissolving in water as much sugar as it will absorb. Very gently on top of this pour a layer of milk, and above ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. A Hiding Needed

    When I grow up, I am going to learn to fight, because I was just mad when I saw a cruel man beating his horse, and I was too small to stop him. The ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. CHANGING THE SIGNS

    Some time afterwards the barber's shop was changed into a public-house, the barber himself becoming the licensee. "Wishing to save as much money as possible, he ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 70 words
  19. COMPETITION RESULTS

    The essays sent in under this heading showed that the heads and hearts of Sunbeamers, at least on this subject of animals, have nothing wrong ...

    Article : 350 words
  20. WINDY DAY IN FIJI

    BEING out on a windy day is not very nice, I know, but one day I was going to school -- it was very windy and rainy -- when the wind ...

    Article : 258 words
  21. OPTICAL ILLUSION

    On a table place a basin, and within the basin place a half-penny. Then ask all interested to stand back just far enough to make the coin invisible; in other words, ...

    Article : 109 words
  22. SPECIAL CASH PRIZE

    A special cash prize of 10s has been awarded Jack Thompson, 42 Waratah-avenue, Randwick, for having obtained ...

    Article : 31 words
  23. KINDNESS-TO-ANIMALS DRAWING COMPETITION

    The Platypus, or more correctly speaking the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus, is an animal which should have more care says Aubrey Winton (14), co Mrs. T. Stenton, Flinders-street, Wollongong. In his sketch he has shown all those characteristics which make it the most remarkable species of Australian wild life. The Homely group of horses was done by Nancy Hughes (16), 56 Kareela-road, Cromorne. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 94 words
  24. Game Little Terrier

    A nice little fox terrier I know of is having his life made miserable by his master, who, when ho takes him out, enters a tram and allows the dog to ...

    Article : 128 words
  25. ANIMAL DRAWINGS

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 293 words
  26. The Home Circle

    We may have our societies, like the S.P.C.A. and the Gould League of Bird Lovers, but many domestic animals which we keep as pets, such as cats ...

    Article : 307 words
  27. No. 3 PICTURE PUZZLE RESULTS

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 118 words
  28. BRAIN TAXER RESULTS

    These will appear next week. ...

    Article : 10 words
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