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Nightmare horrors food lists cause. | Nightmare horrors food lists cause. | ||
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Immutable as holy laws - | Immutable as holy laws - | ||
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Juggling pounds and pennyweights, | Juggling pounds and pennyweights, | ||
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Reviving long forgotten hates, | Reviving long forgotten hates, | ||
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Panic when two tins of malt | Panic when two tins of malt | ||
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Myopic eyes have read as " | Myopic eyes have read as " | ||
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Making lunch of even date | Making lunch of even date | ||
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As preordained as Omar's fate. | As preordained as Omar's fate. | ||
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Can the sugar with the tea | Can the sugar with the tea | ||
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Be trusted not to disagree? | Be trusted not to disagree? | ||
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Will the butter miss the train | Will the butter miss the train | ||
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And bread be dry as Western plain? | And bread be dry as Western plain? | ||
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Will the chap who always brings | Will the chap who always brings | ||
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Such quantities of useless things | Such quantities of useless things | ||
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Bring of bidden quantities | Bring of bidden quantities | ||
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The party' | The party' | ||
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Comes the hour of reckoning - | Comes the hour of reckoning - | ||
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To Peter would I rather wing, | To Peter would I rather wing, | ||
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Even saints would not exact | Even saints would not exact | ||
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Such punishment for our worst acts. | Such punishment for our worst acts. | ||
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" | " | ||
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We owe you more, you brought the cake, | We owe you more, you brought the cake, | ||
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She takes that, now you owe me | She takes that, now you owe me | ||
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A " | A " | ||
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====ONE OF THE OLD HANDS==== | ====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" | + | Maurie Berry told me in a tone which implied understanding on my part that he is one of the "8 originals" |
- | 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 pre-lightweight era were heavier and we have all the advantages of progress in bushwalking which is practically synonymous with lighter packs. | + | 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 appreciate |
- | Can you visualise the Blue Mountains when a trip to Clear Hill and return was considered to require a holiday weekend for its performance? | + | |
- | Maurie has a record of service to the Club and one which is by | + | Can you visualise the Blue Mountains when a trip to Clear Hill and return was considered to require a holiday weekend for its performance? |
- | no means ended, He has been on committee many times, has been Assistant Secretary, Treasurer and President. His present love, to which he has | + | |
- | glven four years of tireless work, is the Bushwaikers | + | 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 given four years of tireless work, is the Bushwalkers |
- | of which 110 is Treasurer - surely an important post on a Committee filling its coffers in order to happily empty the for the benefit of Bushwalkers in the services, | + | |
- | Though Maurie first walked in 1924 his enthusiasm for the bush is greater than ever and do not imagine because of this-date, his snowy hair and growing responsibilities that he hes retired from active walking. | + | Though Maurie first walked in 1924 his enthusiasm for the bush is greater than ever and do not imagine because of this-date, his snowy hair and growing responsibilities that he hes retired from active walking. Only quite recently he " |
- | Only, quite recently he " | + | |
- | You have probably heard of Morriberri Pass from the Cox River Up onto the Gangerang Range and have been deceived by its aboriginal sound. It appears that the well-known cartographer, | + | You have probably heard of Morriberri Pass from the Cox River up onto the Gangerang Range and have been deceived by its aboriginal sound. It appears that the well-known cartographer, |
- | who mapped most of the Blue Mountains was arraigned for calling so many | + | |
- | features after white people so he concocted the above name which satisfied the authorities by passing for genuine aboriginal. Maurie was one of the first walkers to go over this route. | + | Maurie' |
- | Mauriels | + | |
- | "I suppose it is partly my own fault", | + | |
- | N.E..........M.E.M.011=111 | + | |
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