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+ | =====Visitant.===== | ||
- | VISITANT | ||
Vance Palmer. | Vance Palmer. | ||
- | I saw the moon come floating | + | |
- | The dark bush blossomed in. a-flower of light | + | I saw the moon come floating, faint and white\\ |
- | _- | + | Over the hill and soft as spreading snow\\ |
+ | The dark bush blossomed in a flower of light\\ | ||
That shone with silvery glow. | That shone with silvery glow. | ||
- | No secret was revealed: nothing was said But quiatly | + | |
- | A grave within my heart opened2-and one long dead Walked with me through the bush. | + | No secret was revealed: nothing was said\\ |
- | f | + | But quietly |
- | .20 | + | A grave within my heart opened, |
- | THE THREE GURIALOO-NS. | + | Walked with me through the bush. |
- | . By Frank Leyden. | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====The Three Carrialoo-ns.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Frank Leyden. | ||
"Tell your boss I don't like his business methods." | "Tell your boss I don't like his business methods." | ||
+ | |||
"You sent the telegram?" | "You sent the telegram?" | ||
- | li' | + | |
- | night write Cosgrove.'" | + | li' |
- | " | + | |
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "What train"? | ||
"He only meets the early train." | "He only meets the early train." | ||
- | "Oh Gee that's three hours we've lost. Next time we'll send a stamped | + | |
- | . addressed envelope with letter - 'Dear Sir, I can/cannot provide car etc. | + | "Oh Gee! That's three hours we've lost. Next time we'll send a stamped addressed envelope with letter - 'Dear Sir, I can/cannot provide car etc.' - strike our irrelevant words. We'll have breakfast here while we're waiting. I'm not going to carry that pineapple |
- | strike our irrelevant words. We'll have breakfast here while we're waiting. | + | |
- | I'm not going to carry that pineaPple | + | " |
- | Falls with the raisin. loaf. Frank' | + | |
"Of course we don't want to buy the car." | "Of course we don't want to buy the car." | ||
- | .4 ***** oe ****** | + | |
+ | ..... | ||
"My word, that's beautiful. Two hundred and fifty feet the first fall! Best in the State, isn't it?" | "My word, that's beautiful. Two hundred and fifty feet the first fall! Best in the State, isn't it?" | ||
- | "Look at all that water going over. Quite a rivers" " | + | |
- | " | + | "Look at all that water going over. Quite a river!" |
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Get rid of that pineapple and cut down the weight a bit." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "The air is filled with spray down here." | ||
"Yes, aren't the rocks slippery?" | "Yes, aren't the rocks slippery?" | ||
+ | |||
"See all the cascades and little falls?" | "See all the cascades and little falls?" | ||
+ | |||
"Oh, yes," | "Oh, yes," | ||
- | "Just like Lamington. You've never been to Lamington?" | + | |
+ | "Just like Lamington. You've never been to Lamington?" | ||
+ | |||
+ | "No." | ||
"Eat up the pineapple Frank. Go on, I've had four slices. Eat some more. Have some pineapple, Col, we've got too much." | "Eat up the pineapple Frank. Go on, I've had four slices. Eat some more. Have some pineapple, Col, we've got too much." | ||
- | "You carry the raisin loaf Col - that' | + | |
+ | "You carry the raisin loaf Col - that' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ..... | ||
"Will we go down?" | "Will we go down?" | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
- | That little clearing is just a s4a11 shelf that rapidly falls away into the rough stuff. Better keep us close to the rock face." | + | |
- | "Gee! Carrialoo looked good from the saddle. Pity we didn't have time to | + | "That little clearing is just a sma11 shelf that rapidly falls away into the rough stuff. Better keep us close to the rock face." |
- | go out on it," | + | |
+ | "Gee! Carrialoo looked good from the saddle. Pity we didn't have time to go out on it." | ||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
"If it wasn't for this rain and mist." | "If it wasn't for this rain and mist." | ||
+ | |||
"We always break the drought down here; every time." | "We always break the drought down here; every time." | ||
+ | |||
"I didn't think the south side of Carrialoo was as bad as this." | "I didn't think the south side of Carrialoo was as bad as this." | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
- | " | + | |
- | "I think so, It's a bit stee-o. Don't hold on to the bushes or rocks. Everything gives away." | + | " |
+ | |||
+ | "I think so. It's a bit steep. Don't hold on to the bushes or rocks. Everything gives away." | ||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
"Mind the nettles. Aren't they corkers?" | "Mind the nettles. Aren't they corkers?" | ||
- | now j | + | |
- | " | + | " |
- | "Cows to get off4" | + | |
- | " | + | " |
- | in th! distance, | + | |
- | " | + | "Leeches." |
- | Creek, Although it's a bit lower than Carrialoo you get a much better view of the Kangaroo towards the Shoalhaven and the wild country in the distanle-," "No good stopping here all night. We'll never do Grassy and camp on the river tonight at this rate." | + | |
+ | "Cows to get off!" | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "No good stopping here all night. We'll never do Grassy and camp on the river tonight at this rate." | ||
"Wipe Grassy and get the car down into the valley next time." | "Wipe Grassy and get the car down into the valley next time." | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
- | "Hera either," | + | |
+ | "Here either." | ||
"Have to go back." | "Have to go back." | ||
- | "Uust have to push through it." | + | |
+ | "Just have to push through it." | ||
"The undergrowth is over your head here and full of big nettles." | "The undergrowth is over your head here and full of big nettles." | ||
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | " |
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
"Roast beef stew with gravy salt tonight." | "Roast beef stew with gravy salt tonight." | ||
+ | |||
"Half past five now and five miles to go yet." | "Half past five now and five miles to go yet." | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
"Just try and force your way through it. Break it down with your feet first and mind it doesn' | "Just try and force your way through it. Break it down with your feet first and mind it doesn' | ||
+ | |||
"And raisin loaf with cocoa." | "And raisin loaf with cocoa." | ||
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | ..... |
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
"Have to camp up a bit." | "Have to camp up a bit." | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
"No, over there." | "No, over there." | ||
+ | |||
"Over there?" | "Over there?" | ||
- | 0 | + | |
- | "No, here," | + | "No, here." |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | " |
- | "Too many. Put some newspaper round the sides." | + | |
- | "Gee, this stew is good' | + | "Get everything in the tent." |
- | 5. | + | |
- | "Gee, she IS wild," | + | " |
+ | |||
+ | "Um, yum, yum, the vegetables are done, cut up the meat." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Run them down with your finger." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Too many. Put some newspaper round the sides." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "That billy filled up quick off the tent." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Gee, this stew is good! Have some more Frank, I think we've got too much. Have some stew, Col?" | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Gee, she' | ||
" | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
" | " | ||
- | " | + | |
+ | ..... | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Up to the axle." | ||
"Back her on to this bark." | "Back her on to this bark." | ||
- | " | + | |
- | "Pack the bushes under that wheel. I'll try and run her up on the side". "Look at the smoke from the tyres," | + | " |
- | "No good, Run her back again." | + | |
- | Rill together, push!" | + | "Pack the bushes under that wheel. I'll try and run her up on the side." |
- | "Oh. Gee that wheelgs | + | |
+ | "Look at the smoke from the tyres." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "No good. Run her back again." | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Oh. Gee! That wheel' | ||
"Look at my groundsheet too." | "Look at my groundsheet too." | ||
+ | |||
"It certainly rains down these parts. That mist never seems to rise." | "It certainly rains down these parts. That mist never seems to rise." | ||
- | "Ahl she's made it." " | + | |
- | " | + | "Ah! she's made it." |
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "We're right, get in." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "No, get out again." | ||
"Bring up some more bark, get some sticks and bushes." | "Bring up some more bark, get some sticks and bushes." | ||
- | "Never get out of this." " | + | |
- | "Push! I think she'll make it. All!" | + | "Never get out of this." |
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Been here over an hour." | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Push! I think she'll make it. Ah!" | ||
"All O.K. Gee, were lucky." | "All O.K. Gee, were lucky." | ||
- | " | + | |
- | to a hundred and fifty feet high; and the evergreen jungle of ferns, vines | + | " |
- | and moss; the cabbage tree palr,m, loelL1 | + | |
- | BUSH IN SUMER | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | =====Bush In Summer.===== | ||
by Ray Birt. | by Ray Birt. | ||
- | "Sweet flower, for by that name at last When all my reveries are past, | ||
- | I call thee, and to that cleave fast Sweet silent creature ; | ||
- | That breath' | ||
- | My heart, with gladness and a share of thy meek nature." | ||
- | The above lines very aptly depict the flowers which I am bringing to your notice this month and gladly would I "share their meek nature" | ||
- | Lomatia, taken from the Greek " | ||
- | Wahlenbergia Gracillis (Aust. Blue Bell) is a dainty slender herb with delicate | ||
- | blue flower bells. The upright solitary flowers have a green calyx with 5 lobes which may be short and broad or narrow and long. The bell shaped cOrolla | ||
- | has 5 outspread lobes, which are generally longer than the corolla tube. The | ||
- | 5 free stamens stand up round the style which grows up through the encircling anthers, the early ripening pollen is collected on a ring of sticky hairs just | ||
- | below the stigma. The sticky liquid soon dries and the pollen is ready for distribution. | ||
- | Thysanotus Tuberosus (Fringed Violet). The Thysanotus (from the Greek Thysanos - a fringe) is well known by its delicate fringed petals, from which the species are known as fringed violets. Violet, however, is a misnomer as the colour is its only resemblance to that flower. Fringed Lily has been suggested as more correct, but it would be hard to alter the old favourite. The flowers are arranged irregularly on a flowering stalk, The 3 dark purple | ||
- | narrow sel)als show between the 3 fringed bread petals, which twist round each other after the 6 stamens have shed their pollen and the stigma has ripened. As implied by the name, it has tubers which are the underground stores of food and thus enables the plait to live and flower under very dry condition. | ||
- | 7. | ||
- | - | ||
- | 3,4 | + | "Sweet flower, for by that name at last\\ |
- | t's . | + | When all my reveries are past,\\ |
- | " | + | I call thee, and to that cleave fast\\ |
- | c).-1 amp 1 c n hi p three t line s running. " | + | Sweet silent creature; |
- | 8. -.. | + | That breath'st with me in sun and lair\\ |
- | HA/ | + | Do you, as thou art wont, repair\\ |
- | Blaridges is a game for two teams, one team being called the customers and the other the staff. The object of the customers is to force the staff | + | My heart, with gladness and a share\\ |
- | to give them attention at the earliest | + | of thy meek nature." |
- | The customers first stand outside the base completely blocking the entrance | + | |
- | so no staff can esceoe. They then suddenly troop in in an endeavour to take the staff by surprise. Being, | + | The above lines very aptly depict the flowers which I am bringing to your notice this month and gladly would I "share their meek nature" |
- | heard and circumvented by the staff who immediately flee into their secret base at the back which is out of bounds for the customers. The staff must, however, issue from their base at least once in ten minutes. | + | |
- | The customers now attempt to draw the attention of their opponents by | + | Lomatia, taken from the Greek " |
- | various moves - the favourite one being to completely disorganise the base by placing the tables in thick hunchex, by blocking passages, by forming | + | |
- | culs-de-sac etc. Nevertheless, | + | Wahlenbergia Gracillis (Aust. Blue Bell) is a dainty slender herb with delicate blue flower bells. The upright solitary flowers have a green calyx with 5 lobes which may be short and broad or narrow and long. The bell shaped corolla has 5 outspread lobes, which are generally longer than the corolla tube. The 5 free stamens stand up round the style which grows up through the encircling anthers, the early ripening pollen is collected on a ring of sticky hairs just below the stigma. The sticky liquid soon dries and the pollen is ready for distribution. |
- | early stage of the game acknowledge defeat and throw in the sponge (with | + | |
- | coffee 1/-).with a querilous reprimand. More seasoned players, squinting from their base through cracks in the door or rents in the curtains merely gnash their teeth. | + | Thysanotus Tuberosus (Fringed Violet). The Thysanotus (from the Greek Thysanos - a fringe) is well known by its delicate fringed petals, from which the species are known as fringed violets. Violet, however, is a misnomer as the colour is its only resemblance to that flower. Fringed Lily has been suggested as more correct, but it would be hard to alter the old favourite. The flowers are arranged irregularly on a flowering stalk. The 3 dark purple narrow sepals show between the 3 fringed bread petals, which twist round each other after the 6 stamens have shed their pollen and the stigma has ripened. As implied by the name, it has tubers which are the underground stores of food and thus enables the plant to live and flower under very dry conditions. |
- | From time to time staff must necessarily run the gauntlet or risk a | + | |
- | forfeit (another species of sac) from their captain, but they may be unsporting and merely elevate the nose, glaze the eye, stiffen the neck and back and walk | + | ---- |
- | the length of the room looking neither to right or loft. The correct move, according to Hoyle, is for the member of the customers adjacent to the passage- | + | |
- | way to nonchalantly place his 1c3g across it in an effort to trip the player. Should he succa-d | + | ====" |
- | as you. Could you get me two toasts, a toasted | + | |
- | The more adventurous staff may decide to wander about and are thus sometimes caught in a cul-de-sac when their chances of escape are slight. However, | + | by Dot English. |
- | as in wars, the victors do not always come off best and a cornered staff may | + | |
- | murmur, "Toll, what would you like? There' | + | [Cartoon of men in a walking race. Three spectators look on.] |
- | DO YOU RELEMBER | + | |
- | What you did with that " | + | Caption: "Some Walker? I should say he is! He s won the walking championship |
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Blaridges.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Blaridges is a game for two teams, one team being called the customers and the other the staff. The object of the customers is to force the staff to give them attention at the earliest | ||
+ | |||
+ | The customers first stand outside the base completely blocking the entrance so no staff can escape. They then suddenly troop in in an endeavour to take the staff by surprise. Being, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The customers now attempt to draw the attention of their opponents by various moves - the favourite one being to completely disorganise the base by placing the tables in thick bunches, by blocking passages, by forming culs-de-sac etc. Nevertheless, | ||
+ | |||
+ | From time to time staff must necessarily run the gauntlet or risk a forfeit (another species of sac) from their captain, but they may be unsporting and merely elevate the nose, glaze the eye, stiffen the neck and back and walk the length of the room looking neither to right or loft. The correct move, according to Hoyle, is for the member of the customers adjacent to the passageway | ||
+ | |||
+ | The more adventurous staff may decide to wander about and are thus sometimes caught in a cul-de-sac when their chances of escape are slight. However, as in wars, the victors do not always come off best and a cornered staff may murmur, "Well, what would you like? There' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Do You Remember...==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | What you did with that " | ||
OR | OR | ||
- | Mere you put the old " | + | |
- | When you have a minute to spare, please look them up and any similar publications you may have and just pass them in at " | + | Where you put the old " |
- | "THE BUSHVIALKERS' | + | |
- | 9. | + | When you have a minute to spare, please look them up and any similar publications you may have and just pass them in at " |
- | TAURUS | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Taurus.===== | ||
In the constellation Taurus there are two star clusters, The Hyades and the Pleiades. The brightest stars in the Hyades form a remarkably symetrical group in the form of the letter " | In the constellation Taurus there are two star clusters, The Hyades and the Pleiades. The brightest stars in the Hyades form a remarkably symetrical group in the form of the letter " | ||
- | It is probable that the Babylonians first likened the constellation to a bull. In Greek Mythology Taurus represents the white bull whose form | + | |
- | Jupiter assumed when he abducted Europa and swam with her on his back to the island of Crete. The Pleiades, sometimes called the " | + | It is probable that the Babylonians first likened the constellation to a bull. In Greek Mythology Taurus represents the white bull whose form Jupiter assumed when he abducted Europa and swam with her on his back to the island of Crete. The Pleiades, sometimes called the " |
- | Now only six stars can be seen plainly, but there is little doubt that | + | |
- | the disappearance of the seventh is an astronomical fact. Some of the legends of the Australian aboriginees account for the disappearance of the | + | The planet Saturn is now in Taurus and is brighter than any of the stars of the constellation. Jupiter is to the West of Taurus at present. |
- | seventh star. | + | |
- | The planet Saturn is now in Taurus and is brighter than any of the stars of the constellation. Jupiter is to the West of Taurus at prasellt, | + | ---- |
- | The planets may be identified by their brightness, and by the time they | + | |
- | rise and set as shown in the meteorological reports. | + | =====Spring On "The Barren Lands"! South Coast Of N.S.W.===== |
- | Aldebaran | + | |
- | * | + | |
- | Th Hyades | + | |
- | North-East | + | |
- | ( The eiades | + | |
- | S2RING ON "THE BARREN L[NDS" | + | |
- | SOUTo.07 NS.V1 | + | |
- | . | + | |
Doreen Helmricj. | Doreen Helmricj. | ||
- | The moon si]vc; | + | |
- | stoely | + | The moon silvered the biliowing clouds as we climbed into the mountains and silvered |
- | 1-e-lot i above the fertile coastal plain, The marshy | + | |
- | The mountain side below us was covered by rich jungle | + | Climbing steeply |
- | nLhing | + | |
- | Ile hold, it seemed, the essence of Tranquility within our grasp. The memory is o" | + | The mountain side below us was covered by rich jungle |
- | In the evening we wont down from the mountain across the pleasant fields, | + | |
- | JUST SCRAPS | + | Nothing |
- | During the month wo had news of Dotty Pryde. She is now in Melbourne? and, we hoori so enamoured of the bathing boxes on the beach where she was swimming that he took possession of one for several hours, | + | |
- | ThLy root an old Dushwalker | + | We held, it seemed, the essence of Tranquility within our grasp. The memory is ours, to be called upon at will - an antidote, a refuge in days of stress |
- | coi. do not know EthelTs | + | |
- | n-;_c column is very hard to fill lately and we are bef; | + | In the evening we went down from the mountain across the pleasant fields, |
- | roLloed | + | |
- | An coroin; | + | ---- |
- | Dou_las Stewart | + | |
- | and far she is from earth, | + | =====Just Scraps.===== |
- | clear pool troon the ' | + | |
- | when on her faery circle | + | During the month we had news of Betty Pryde. She is now in Melbourne, and, we hear, so enamoured of the bathing boxes on the beach where she was swimming that she took possession of one for several hours. |
- | falls the black snow of night, | + | |
- | and all the wild stars dance there a white dance of delight. | + | Betty met an old Bushwalker |
- | This song is but a leaf | + | |
- | whose slender beauty grew from that great tree of joy that sprang when first I know he skylark flame of crystal in her skylit cup of blue. | + | This column is very hard to fill lately and we are beginning |
- | and now, unworthy, bears such witness as it may | + | |
- | to all her snow-born beauty whom I have seen to-day imaged in water singing - on pebbles blue andgrey. | + | We noticed |
- | so cold she takes tly breath so sweet my words away. | + | |
- | BLUE MOTTITTAIIT. SPRING | + | ---- |
- | At the deep walls of wopen many times I found | + | |
- | whiteness to slake a thirst, a dark taste underground | + | =====Blue mountain Spring.===== |
- | that spoke of moss, dead leaves, green fe#s the brim around, | + | |
- | but never 0 till now | + | Douglas Stewart |
- | dreamed that sun could free like a cold- storm of sapphire in rock's grey purity, | + | |
- | the very sprite of snow | + | At the deep walls of women\\ |
+ | many times I found\\ | ||
+ | whiteness to slake a thirst,\\ | ||
+ | a dark taste underground\\ | ||
+ | that spoke of moss, dead leaves,\\ | ||
+ | green forms the brim around,\\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | but never O till now\\ | ||
+ | dreamed that sun could free\\ | ||
+ | like a cold storm of sapphire\\ | ||
+ | in rock's grey purity,\\ | ||
+ | the very sprite of snow\\ | ||
to flood her song to me. | to flood her song to me. | ||
- | So deeply delved in rock she must proclaim her home, but tells no tale of darkness, rain on the cloddy loam: | + | |
- | stone and treco of the mountain thrill in her singing. foam, | + | So deeply delved in rock\\ |
+ | she must proclaim her home,\\ | ||
+ | but tells no tale of darkness,\\ | ||
+ | rain on the cloddy loam:\\ | ||
+ | stone and tree of the mountain\\ | ||
+ | thrill in her singing foam, | ||
+ | |||
+ | and far she is from earth,\\ | ||
+ | clear pool upon the height,\\ | ||
+ | when on her faery circle\\ | ||
+ | falls the black snow of night,\\ | ||
+ | and all the wild stars dance there\\ | ||
+ | a white dance of delight. | ||
+ | |||
+ | This song is but a leaf\\ | ||
+ | whose slender beauty grew\\ | ||
+ | from that great tree of joy\\ | ||
+ | that sprang when first I knew\\ | ||
+ | her skylark flame of crystal\\ | ||
+ | in her skylit cup of blue. | ||
+ | |||
+ | and now, unworthy, bears\\ | ||
+ | such witness as it may\\ | ||
+ | to all her snow-born beauty\\ | ||
+ | whom I have seen to-day\\ | ||
+ | imaged in water singing\\ | ||
+ | on pebbles blue and grey. | ||
+ | |||
+ | so cold she takes my breath\\ | ||
+ | so sweet my words away. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
LETTERS FROM ThE LADS AND LASSES | LETTERS FROM ThE LADS AND LASSES | ||
Letters were received during January from:- | Letters were received during January from:- |
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