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 +===== Living Off The Country. =====
  
-=10011.10 +Living off the country in the Blue Mountains would be a well nigh impossible task and yet a person lost or running short of food through misadventure could eke out his scanty rations with bush foods.
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-LIVING OFF THE COUNTRY. +
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-Living off the country in the Blue Mountains would be a well nigh impossible task and yet a person lost or running short of foodthrough misadventure could eke out his scanty rations with bush foods.+
  
 Here are some suggestions extracted from Paddy's Book - "Bushwalking and Camping." Here are some suggestions extracted from Paddy's Book - "Bushwalking and Camping."
  
-NETTLES: Similar in taste _to spinach, and cooked the same way. +|__Nettles__:|Similar in taste to spinach, and cooked the same way.| 
- +|__Couch Roots__:|Eat the thick white shoots raw or boiled.| 
-COUCH ROOTS: Eat the thick white shoots raw orboiled. +|__Bracken Tips__:|just curled above the ground are edible-boil.| 
- +|__Mushrooms__:|Eat raw, boiled or fried.| 
-BRACKEN Tips just curled above the ground are edible-boil. TIPS: +|__-Grass Tree__:|White ends of centre blades. Eat raw or boil.
- +|__Fern__:|Heart of tree fern is edible - boil.
-MUSHROOMS: Eat raw, boiled or -fried. +|__Cabbage Palm__:|Centre core of unopened leaves-boil.| 
- +|__-Frogs__:|Legs only. Delicious if you can otercome prejudice (and boil.)| 
--GRASS TREE: White ends of centre blades. Eat raw or boil. FERN: Heart of tree fern is edible - boil. CABBAGE PALM: Centre core of unopened leaves-boil+|__Snails__:|Boil gently. After all, you eat oysters - snails are their cousins.| 
- +|__White Grubs__:|(Found in rotten wood) edible and delicious if prejudice overcome.|
--FROGS: Legs only. Delicious if you can otercome prejudice(and boil.) +
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-SNAILS: Boil gently. After all, you eat oysters - snails are their cousins. +
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-WHITE GRUBS: (Found in rotten wood) edible and delicious if prejudice overcome. +
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-- Not to mention the obvious - such as - fish, eels, rabbits, etc. Snake makes good eating.+
  
-N.B. It goes without saying that grass-treesferns and palms would not be destroyed by walkers unless in case of dire need.+-  - - Not to mention the obvious - such as - fisheels, rabbits, etc. Snake makes good eating.
  
-Maybe readers would let the Editor lave,a few further suggestions which might one day be useful in an emergency._+__N.B.__ It goes without saying that grass-treesferns and palms would not be destroyed by walkers unless in case of dire need.
  
-INSERTED IN THE INTERESTS CT GOOD CAMPING BY:-+Maybe readers would let the Editor lave,a few further suggestions which might one day be useful in an emergency.
  
-PADDY PALLIN,+. . . . .
  
-327 George Street, SYDNEY'.+|Inserted In The Interests Of Good Camping By:-\\ || 
 +| |Paddy Pallin,\\ 327 George Street, __Sydney__|
  
-/Phone 3.3101.+__'Phone B.3101__.
  
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