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  2. DENIZENS OF THE BUSH.

    Recent notes in this column on the habits of rainbow-birds have prompted Mr. W. McKenzie Grant, of Newmarracarna, to write concerning the movements of these ...

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  3. ST. DAVID'S DAY.

    Perchance thy youth Has read with eager wonder of the knight of Wales.. and if that in thy veins Flow the pure blood of Britain, sure that ...

    Article : 1,446 words
  4. ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

    Dear "Scrutator,"—Miss Beryl Mills (now married), says, inter alia: "To we antipodeans" in a Columbia record. Seeing she is married to a "Smith's Weekly" ...

    Article : 1,756 words
  5. WHY DO WE DO IT?

    It must be confessed at the outset that this title has been suggested by the heading under which a series of short articles has been appearing in this paper. For ...

    Article : 1,631 words
  6. LIFE AND LETTERS.

    Lord Brikenhead stated the other day that it is his practice to read Sir Walter Scott through once a year. His devotion to "the Wizard of the North" is shared by ...

    Article : 1,590 words
  7. ON ARRIVALS.

    To travel hopefully," says Stevenson at the close of a famous essay, "is a better thing than to arrive." I take leave to doubt this. On the contrary travelling ...

    Article : 1,458 words
  8. BOOK REVIEWS.

    Distinct from the partisanship and esprit de corps, which belong inalienably to the etiquette of all the professions, and is nowhere more observable than in the ...

    Article : 1,246 words
  9. RICHTHOFEN.

    A cable message appeared in "The West Australian" on January 16 announcing a new book, "The Red Knight of Germany" and a summary was given of this ...

    Article : 1,676 words
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  11. "A ROLLING STONE."

    Mr. Bertram R. Bunny was a New Zealander, who felt the spirit of the Wanderlust early in life, when as a first experience, he worked his passage round the ...

    Article : 264 words
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    At one tune, the "Chatham Bar," in Paris, was familiar to most Englishmen whose business or pleasure took them to that city. George Chetwynd, the ...

    Article : 326 words
  13. WHY DO WE SAY IT?

    The full saying was "the Devil to pay, and the Devil a drop of hot pitch." The "devil" is the seam of a boat where the deck planks meet the side and to "pay," or ...

    Article : 172 words
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    One of the late Harry Furniss's stories concerns a young subaltern in India, who, early one morning returning to camp, lay down with his head on the base of a ...

    Article : 161 words
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    Lady Susan Townley, writing in her book, "Indiscretions of Lady Susan," says that the ceremonial form of Chinese conversation always amused her: "It ...

    Article : 118 words
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    James Russell Lowell, who had been lunching one day with George Meredith at the house of Mrs. Lawrence, where Meredith as usual talked in a loud, and ...

    Article : 68 words
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