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  2. Capacity of Absorption.

    Dear "Non-Com."—I started these drinking reminiscences and I'm pleased that someone else has given us another phenomenon with a liquid-storing habit. ...

    Article : 424 words
  3. The Night Well.

    Dear "Non-Com."—"Wipeco's" article on the "Night Well" recently recalled memories of the many ocasions on which I have heard my father tell of his ...

    Article : 366 words
  4. Highway [?] By-way

    Under this heading readers are invited to contribute brief stories of general appeal and interest and with a West Australian setting for preference. Local legend history or personalities, reminiscence, nature lore, coincidence, curiosities, tragedy, humour—in short, life as it is and was in the city, town and bush. ...

    Article : 915 words
  5. Hooper's Fence—A Query.

    Dear "Non-Com,"—Can anyone locate "Hooper's Fence?" I have been trying to locate it for nearly thirty years. Hooper's Fence lay in the direct track ...

    Article : 653 words
  6. Golden Days in the Kimberleys.

    In 1886, Mr. C. D. Price, Warden, Sergeant Troy, P. C. Sweeney and Mr. Forbes, clerk of courts, arrived at my camp on McPhee's Creek, one of the ...

    Article : 562 words
  7. Tates of the Outposts.

    Dear "Non-Com."—I notice in a recent issue reference was made to the Night Well on the Jerramungup Road, but "Wipeco" did not give you the aboriginal ...

    Article : 642 words
  8. "Lass."

    Dear "Non-Com."—"Lass" is just a red kelpie and she spends her days in wellearned retirement, for she is twelve years old and inclined to corpulence. Twelve ...

    Article : 283 words
  9. The Goddess of Chance.

    Dear "Non-Com,"—This item of news published recently illustrates how the hand of fate plays queer pranks in the search for gold. It concerned five young ...

    Article : 309 words
  10. Canine Intelligence.

    Dear "Non-Com."—In 1890 I was carting wheat with bullock teams, and at night we "paddocked" our teams in the cockies' stubble fields, and of course we ...

    Article : 323 words
  11. A Tale of a Tail.

    Dear "Non-Com."—The article by "Nose Peg" about the dog that tried to light the fire for his boss by striking matches on his ribs reminds me. ...

    Article : 155 words
  12. To Correspondents.

    "L.J.R.," Middlesex, via Manjimup.— Water diviner to hand. How about joining the other team also? "Hammer," Norseman.—Three entries ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. Origin of "Damper."

    Dear "Non-Com,"—Re the origin of the word "damper." In Commander George Anson's "Voyage Round the World," in chapter XII., it says of the ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. A Beetle Crusher.

    Dear "Non-Com."—Have written several times, but have not had the heart to post them to you, being such a rotten hand with the pen. But here goes this ...

    Article : 125 words
  15. Zummerzetzhire Zyllabub—Not for Groupies.

    Dear "Non-Com."—I came across grandma's scrapbook the other day. This is the first entry: "Into a large china bowl put a pint of port, a pint of sherry, ...

    Article : 110 words
  16. News Travels Slowly.

    Dear "Non-Com,"—A traveller was held up at a small country hotel recently, owing to a washaway on the railway line, caused by the very heavy rains. ...

    Article : 77 words
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