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 Ancient, primitive colourful, beautiful - it is an unforgettable Island. Ancient, primitive colourful, beautiful - it is an unforgettable Island.
  
-----FOOD LISTS----+====FOOD LISTS====
  
    
-Nightmare horrors food lists cause. Immutable as holy laws - +Nightmare horrors food lists cause.  
-Juggling pounds and pennyweights, Reviving long forgotten hates, Panic when two tins of malt + 
-Myopic eyes have read as+Immutable as holy laws - 
 + 
 +Juggling pounds and pennyweights,  
 + 
 +Reviving long forgotten hates,  
 + 
 +Panic when two tins of malt 
 + 
 +Myopic eyes have read as "salt", 
 Making lunch of even date Making lunch of even date
-As preordained as Omarls fate,+ 
 +As preordained as Omar'fate
 + 
 Can the sugar with the tea Can the sugar with the tea
 +
 Be trusted not to disagree? Be trusted not to disagree?
 +
 Will the butter miss the train Will the butter miss the train
-And hread be dry as Western plain? + 
-Will the chap who al-7ays brings +And bread be dry as Western plain? 
-Such quantities of useless things Bring of bidden quantities + 
-The party's bare neces-ities?+Will the chap who always brings 
 + 
 +Such quantities of useless things  
 + 
 +Bring of bidden quantities 
 + 
 +The party's bare necessities? 
 + 
 Comes the hour of reckoning - Comes the hour of reckoning -
-To Peter would I rather wing,.+ 
 +To Peter would I rather wing, 
 Even saints would not exact Even saints would not exact
 +
 Such punishment for our worst acts. Such punishment for our worst acts.
 +
 "Debit, credit, put and take, "Debit, credit, put and take,
-We owe you more, you brought the Cake,+ 
 +We owe you more, you brought the cake, 
 She takes that, now you owe me She takes that, now you owe me
-.A "cleaner" point six four two three,"+ 
 +A "deaner" point six four two three." 
 ONE OF TEN. ONE OF TEN.
  
-le, + 
-ONE OF THE OLD HAND3 +====ONE OF THE OLD HANDS==== 
-Maurie Berry told me in a tone which implied understanding on my part that he is one of the "8 originals"I admitted that I did not eppreciate this claim. So he unfolded to me the beginnings of our Club,back in 1927 .. the letter to the newspaper deploring the lack of a walking club and the reply by the Mountain Trails Club which brought together the first enthusiastsHowever, the "8 originals" (mostly married now, I presume, with large families) wanted a club open to both men and women and so in time the Sydney Bushwalkers was born, + 
-We bemoan even now the paucity of maps and the wartime lack of gear but walking in those days was so different that it is difficult for us to appreciete the early conditionsMeurie commenced his walking carrying a "Dungal Swag" which is something after the style of that car4pdpy the present day "swaggie"."Paddy always claims" said he, "that I hea rtg8ac but", he continued with ju,licial honesty, "I cannot confirm that to be so". It is little wonder that Meurie left Oberon for his fortnight:s walk to Yerranderie with 70 pounds aboard for,in those days, he always carried an axe, tents ot' +Maurie Berry told me in a tone which implied understanding on my part that he is one of the "8 originals"I admitted that I did not appreciate this claim. So he unfolded to me the beginnings of our Club, back in 1927 the letter to the newspaper deploring the lack of a walking club and the reply by the Mountain Trails Club which brought together the first enthusiastsHowever, the "8 originals" (mostly married now, I presume, with large families) wanted a club open to both men and women and so in time the Sydney Bushwalkers was born
-the pre-lightweight era were heavier and we have all the advantages of progress in bushwalking which is practically synonymous with lighter packs. + 
-Can you visualise the Blue Mountains when a trip to Clear Hill and return was considered to require a holiday weekend for its performance? If you can you will anpreciate the Rdventure behind those early trips down the Cox, the Shoalhaven or the Grose which sound to us so humdrum but which, to the pioneers, had the proportions of one of our trips into the most remote, unmapped country.+We bemoan even now the paucity of maps and the wartime lack of gear but walking in those days was so different that it is difficult for us to appreciete the early conditionsMeurie commenced his walking carrying a "Dungal Swag" which is something after the style of that carried by the present day "swaggie". "Paddy always claims" said he, "that I had the first rucksack but", he continued with judicial honesty, "I cannot confirm that to be so". It is little wonder that Meurie left Oberon for his fortnight's walk to Yerranderie with 70 pounds aboard for, in those days, he always carried an axe, tents of the pre-lightweight era were heavier and we have all the advantages of progress in bushwalking which is practically synonymous with lighter packs. 
 + 
 +Can you visualise the Blue Mountains when a trip to Clear Hill and return was considered to require a holiday weekend for its performance? If you can you will anpreciate the adventure behind those early trips down the Cox, the Shoalhaven or the Grose which sound to us so humdrum but which, to the pioneers, had the proportions of one of our trips into the most remote, unmapped country. 
 Maurie has a record of service to the Club and one which is by Maurie has a record of service to the Club and one which is by
 no means ended, He has been on committee many times, has been Assistant Secretary, Treasurer and President. His present love, to which he has no means ended, He has been on committee many times, has been Assistant Secretary, Treasurer and President. His present love, to which he has
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