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=====Hymn of hate===== | =====Hymn of hate===== | ||
- | By Graco Edgecombe | + | By Grace Edgecombe |
Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\ | Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\ | ||
I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\ | I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\ | ||
- | I'd like to bust it right in two,\\Or beet it till it's black and blue! | + | I'd like to bust it right in two,\\ |
+ | Or beet it till it's black and blue! | ||
\\I'd like to fling it in the sea, | \\I'd like to fling it in the sea, | ||
- | \\Or jump upon it, savagely\\ | + | \\Or jump upon it, savagely!\\ |
How dare it sit and mock at me,\\ | How dare it sit and mock at me,\\ | ||
Knowing that it must carried be?\\ | Knowing that it must carried be?\\ | ||
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And naught but ribald mirth divulge?\\ | And naught but ribald mirth divulge?\\ | ||
And does it feed upon the air,\\ | And does it feed upon the air,\\ | ||
- | That it grows daily heavier? Or slyly suck my puny strength\\ | + | That it grows daily heavier?\\ |
- | And take my breadth, | + | Or slyly suck my puny strength\\ |
- | Just watch it try tu break my neck, Using me as a landing deck\\ | + | And take my breadth, |
- | Pompous pincushion | + | Just watch it try to break my neck,\\ |
+ | Using me as a landing-deck\\ | ||
+ | Pompous pincushion! Loathsome | ||
I vow you ne'er again I'll hump\\ | I vow you ne'er again I'll hump\\ | ||
**A POINT TO REMEMBER** | **A POINT TO REMEMBER** | ||
- | If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying | + | If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass reading by as much as three degrees. |
- | to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass-reading by as much as three | + | |
- | degrees. | + | For the ordinary, rough and ready compass reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack |
- | For the ordinary, rough and ready compass-reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack | + | |
- | - 10- | + | =====From here there and everywhere===== |
- | FROM HERT,!_,_ THEL.F.E A-NJ), EVERYIkHER.E._ | + | |
In a booklet called - " | In a booklet called - " | ||
in North-eastern States" | in North-eastern States" | ||
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-- Byron. | -- Byron. | ||
When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. Susuki of Japan. | When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. Susuki of Japan. | ||
- | CLUB GOSSIP | + | |
+ | =====Club gossip===== | ||
By " | By " | ||
Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn' | Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn' |
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