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  2. Over the Sliprails

    Emdee: The Bureau of Science and Industry, in its desire to get rid of pests, might well turn its attention to lantana, which, although not so bad as the prickly ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 255 words
  3. THE OLD BUSH MOTORS.

    Mulgo: What great walkers were the, old bush mothers-- the, mothers we knew on the rivers where the big serubs grew, when settlers wore hewing daylight into ...

    Article : 261 words
  4. A BLADDER OF RUM.

    Umball: The sly-grog seller is reckoned by most people a pretty low being in the human scale, though he oftens shows an ingenuity in delivering the [?] ...

    Article : 480 words
  5. MELBOURNE'S FIRST RACE MEETING.

    U. If Falkner and his fellow-pioneers could re-visit the scene of their settlement just now, one of the topics of their conversation would doubtless be a ...

    Article : 285 words
  6. ROMANCE OF A TOUGH FOWL.

    Travelled: Innumerable stories, funny and otherwise have been told about tough fowls, but it has remained for an Australian housewife to demolish the idea ...

    Article : 424 words
  7. MOONLIGHTING.

    E. S, S.: Moonlighting was a thrilling occupation in the days when wild cattle were plentiful, land men still occasionally engage in it the northern bush and in ...

    Article : 377 words
  8. SLIGHTLY UNDERDONE.

    Mick M'Gregor: I have done a deal of coach travelling in various parts of the State, and I think I could write a fairly readable book on my varied experiences. ...

    Article : 383 words
  9. CATCHING BEETLES.

    Worrimee: Sugar planters in Queensland are much harassed at times by the cane beetle, which, for (about four mouths in the year, swarms over the plantations ...

    Article : 304 words
  10. SAILORS AND CORN PULLING.

    Paul Cupid: A couple of sailors who had just deserted their ship at Newcastle presented themselves to a farmer, higher up the Hunter, and asked if he could give ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. IN TIME OF DROUGHT.

    Savid: Divination by chance or selected passages from Homer, Virgil, or the Bible, is a game that civilised man has played in all ages. Naturally it was ...

    Article : 277 words
  12. GOOD PLACE FOR GOATS.

    Wandi: Tibooburra, the farthest north-western town in N.S.W. when l knew it was a picturesque little spot, in what the coastal people call the Land of Sunset, ...

    Article : 335 words
  13. A NOVELTY IN BREAD RATIONING.

    Jordan Ford: I was once riding oyer one of the old and deserted goldfields looking for some stray cattle, and pulled up at the log-and-bark cabin of an old ...

    Article : 328 words
  14. PATRONISED BY ROYALTY.

    U.: At the V.R.C. meeting at Flemington in 1870, and at which the Duke of Edinburgh was present, the late Mr. John Tait had two horses engaged in the ...

    Article : 238 words
  15. A BUSH EXPERIENCE.

    Murrungurry: A luckless member of the jackeroo fraternity, whose front name was Horace, was consigned some years ago to a squattage in the Northern ...

    Article : 310 words
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