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=====Hymn of hate===== | =====Hymn of hate===== | ||
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- | By Graco Edg6combc,. | + | By Grace Edgecombe |
- | Oh, how I hate the race of packs; I'd like to hit mine with an a;i:e. 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, Or jump upon it, savagely | + | Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\ |
- | How dare it sit and mock at me, Knowing that it must carried be? | + | I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\ |
- | How dare it grin, with beastly bulge, And naught but ribald mirth divulge? And does it feed upon the air, That it grows daily heavier? Or slyly suck my puuy | + | I'd like to bust it right in two,\\ |
- | And take my breadth, | + | Or beet it till it's black and blue! |
- | Just watch it try tu break my neck, Using me as a lalidirg-do c:,g | + | \\I'd like to fling it in the sea, |
- | Pompous pincushion | + | \\Or jump upon it, savagely!\\ |
- | :17:ir, | + | How dare it sit and mock at me,\\ |
- | -----:i< t> --, A-, in 1 | + | Knowing that it must carried be?\\ |
- | I' 4' ---, | + | How dare it grin, with beastly bulge,\\ |
- | l\ \ | + | And naught but ribald mirth divulge?\\ |
- | I | + | And does it feed upon the air,\\ |
- | , ' / | + | That it grows daily heavier?\\ |
- | , | + | Or slyly suck my puny strength\\ |
- | -----Z_-: | + | And take my breadth, |
- | i | + | Just watch it try to break my neck,\\ |
- | A- | + | Using me as a landing-deck\\ |
- | _-- | + | Pompous pincushion! Loathsome |
- | ...._, | + | I vow you ne' |
- | J., /0/ ,e | + | |
- | A POINT TO REMEEBER | + | **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" | + | |
- | "We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, and have thirty committees to direct this activity." | + | "We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, |
- | ....And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans"9 even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included. | + | |
- | By the way, the Federation' | + | And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans", even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included. |
- | to be a searcher, there will be plenty of SJOpe for you. If you don't come on the stunt, you MAY have to turn out during the follo)Ang | + | |
- | Congratulations to the Polishing | + | By the way, the Federation' |
- | enjoying the June issue of their magazine - "Into the Blue"._ It is a 24-page issue of entertaining articles in which the reader can roam the world, and all the work of publication was done voluntarily by their own members! | + | |
- | 0 0 OOOOO 0 | + | Congratulations to the Publishing |
- | Here's good news for the mountaineers and ski-ers | + | |
- | ........ -we me me as | + | Here's good news for the mountaineers and skiers |
- | Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home; | + | |
- | Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends, | + | Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;\\ |
- | He had the passion and the power to roam, | + | Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home;\\ |
- | Were unto him companionship; | + | Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends,\\ |
- | A mutual language, clearer than the tome | + | He had the passion and the power to roam,\\ |
- | Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature' | + | Were unto him companionship; |
- | -- Byron. | + | A mutual language, clearer than the tome\\ |
- | 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. | + | Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake\\ |
- | CLUB GOSSIP | + | For Nature' |
+ | - Byron. | ||
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+ | 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. | ||
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+ | Susuki of Japan. | ||
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+ | =====Club gossip===== | ||
By " | By " | ||
- | Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe | + | |
- | of the surrounding hills will be so strong she will just have to shoulder her pack and go off geologising. By the way, anyone else who may be thinking of departing to teech the young should take Grace' | + | Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hope he 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' |
- | Our Hon.Historian, | + | |
- | far beyond the foundation of the S.B.W. He is now wanting to form e Rock Carving Section (no, it will have nothing at all in common with the Rock Climbing Section, except that both are formed of members of the 3.13,W0). Everyone who is really interested in aboriginal rock carvngs | + | Our Hon.Historian, |
- | who think a study of the carvings would be a good excuse for plenty of not-tooenergetic week-ends) should get in touch with Charlie for details. There is a lot | + | |
- | of interesting work to be done in this direction, and it has real scientific value, | + | Were you at the Stunt Evening at the Club on Friday, May 27th? It was a new idea of the Social Committee, and a great success. As usual, Ray Bean excelled as an entertainer, |
- | too: | + | |
- | Were you at the Stunt Evening at the Club on Friday, May 27th? It wes a new idea of the Social Committee, and a great success. As usual, Ray Bean excelled as an entertainer, | + | Another very enjoyable entertainment arranged by the Social Committee, and supported by fifty-four members and friends, was a " |
- | Another very enjoyable entertainment arranged by the Social Committee, and supported by fifty-four members and friends, was a " | + | |
- | the company | + | The next offering from the Social Committee is the first Dance of the season, which is to be held on June 29th, and they are hinting that they have something unusual for our entertainment. By the time you read this, you will know a lot more about it than I can tell you now. |
- | The next offering from the Social Committee is the first Dance of the season, which is to be held on June 29th, and thcy are hinting that they have something unusual for our entertainment. By the time you read this, you will know a lot | + | |
- | more about it than I can tell you now. | + | Were you one of the crowd who turned up at the Club Rooms on June 17th to find out what the Social Committee |
- | Were you one of the crowd who turned up at the Club Rooms on June 17th to | + | |
- | find out what the Social Committee | + | **THE UNEXPLORER** |
- | THE UNEXPLORER | + | There was a road ran past our house\\ |
- | There was a road ran past our house | + | Too lovely to explore.\\ |
- | Too lovely to explore. | + | I asked my mother once - she said\\ |
- | I asked my mother once -- she said | + | That if you followed where it led\\ |
- | That if you followed where it led | + | It brought you to the milkman's door.\\ |
- | It brought you to the mi1kman'6 door. | + | (That' |
- | (That' | + | - E. St. V. Millay. |
- | -- E. St. V. Millay. | + | |
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