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Then it happened. The sausage developed hygroscopic qualities. It foretold the weather by dripping before rain. Hero the experiment ended when Mrs. Dunphy, who disapproved of the exudations in the bathroom, removed the sausage to the dustbin. Who knows what other properties it might have developed? It might have reacted to sunspots, foretold droughts, generated atomic energy. For the intrepid experimenter who will carry on where Myles left off there waits fame, perhaps martyrdom, even divorce. | Then it happened. The sausage developed hygroscopic qualities. It foretold the weather by dripping before rain. Hero the experiment ended when Mrs. Dunphy, who disapproved of the exudations in the bathroom, removed the sausage to the dustbin. Who knows what other properties it might have developed? It might have reacted to sunspots, foretold droughts, generated atomic energy. For the intrepid experimenter who will carry on where Myles left off there waits fame, perhaps martyrdom, even divorce. | ||
- | ONE SUNDAY IN SAMOA | + | =====One Sunday In Samoa.===== |
- | It was Sunday when we nosed our way up to the reef nt Apia and' | + | |
- | It had been Sunday the day before but that ditntt | + | It was Sunday when we nosed our way up to the reef at Apia and made fast to a buoy just outside the lagoon. |
- | A Sabbatical calm broodJd | + | |
- | Campbell from down south New Zealand way, Barklie, a Dublin man and Klein the American wandered along the street with me, debating as to how we should spend. the 'afternoon. | + | It had been Sunday the day before but that didn' |
- | 92: tell fr_vew" said Klein in his sleek well-fed tones, "there is only one thing to do. We've gotta climb this hill where Rarbert Louis Stevenson is hurried. My lil wife back home would never speak to me again if I told. her I hadn't seen the tomb." | + | |
- | " | + | A Sabbatical calm brooded |
- | "One can drive part of the way I believe,' | + | |
- | Sirriezy | + | Campbell from down south New Zealand way, Barklie, a Dublin man and Klein the American wandered along the street with me, debating as to how we should spend the afternoon. |
- | After some argument we selected a car and subsided on to seats spread with snowy antimacassars. Our Jehu seized the wheel and. we hurtled, at a furious | + | |
- | "From here - walk" said. our charioteer; and. we descended, charging him to return for us after a suitable interval. | + | " |
- | Another cotton...clad figure edged. forward from where it had been. squatting on the broken stone wall. | + | |
- | "You go Stevets tombVi | + | "It' |
- | " | + | |
- | No one protested so we fell into line, carefully avoiding the stinging nettles that bordered the path. We crossed a babbling brook and -started on the upwawd | + | "One can drive part of the way I believe," |
- | " | + | |
- | sure beautiful" | + | Sundry |
- | The -oath steepened here, and our fitful conversation ceased. Presently by mutual consent we paused for a breather on the root of a tree, but our respite was brief. Clouds of mosquitoes descended upon us with whoops of delight and spurred us en. | + | |
- | 4 | + | After some argument we selected a car and subsided on to seats spread with snowy antimacassars. Our Jehu seized the wheel and we hurtled at a furious |
- | 9. | + | |
+ | "From here - walk" said our charioteer; and we descended, charging him to return for us after a suitable interval. | ||
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+ | Another cotton-clad figure edged forward from where it had been squatting on the broken stone wall. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "You go Steve' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "I come" | ||
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+ | No one protested so we fell into line, carefully avoiding the stinging nettles that bordered the path. We crossed a babbling brook and started on the upward | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | The path steepened here, and our fitful conversation ceased. Presently by mutual consent we paused for a breather on the root of a tree, but our respite was brief. Clouds of mosquitoes descended upon us with whoops of delight and spurred us on. | ||
We toiled upwards for another fifteen minutes, oozing at every pore. " | We toiled upwards for another fifteen minutes, oozing at every pore. " | ||
- | Our guide, cool and serene, made gostures | + | |
- | "It may be in some methods of reckoning" | + | Our guide, cool and serene, made gestures |
- | " | + | |
- | "I guess they hated to put it there" said Klein. " | + | "It may be in some methods of reckoning" |
- | "You know" I saineicieaively, "it must have been a very difficult business getting the coffin to the top of this hill. I wonder how long it took thnm to do it?" | + | |
- | "Ask little Solomon here" said Campbell, "he might toll you all about it. I | + | " |
- | Klein hailed our guide in what he fondly believed to be Island English. "This fella Stove" he said, "him dead. You put him on top of hill. How long it take you, carry him up this damsteep | + | |
- | " | + | "I guess they hated to put it there" said Klein. " |
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+ | "You know" I said reflectively, "it must have been a very difficult business getting the coffin to the top of this hill. I wonder how long it took them to do it?" | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Ask little Solomon here" said Campbell, "he might tell you all about it." | ||
+ | |||
+ | Klein hailed our guide in what he fondly believed to be Island English. "This fella Steve" he said, "him dead. You put him on top of hill. How long it take you, carry him up this dam-steep | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
Klein tried again. | Klein tried again. | ||
- | "When Steve die, you put him up top, in tomb. How long it take yot get him up this hill?" | + | |
+ | "When Steve die, you put him up top, in tomb. How long it take you get him up this hill?" | ||
Blank silence for awhile. Then, " | Blank silence for awhile. Then, " | ||
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A guffaw of laughter broke the stillness of the bush. | A guffaw of laughter broke the stillness of the bush. | ||
- | " | + | |
- | He heaved | + | " |
- | On a little flat knoll, about ten yards across, hemmed in by palm and hibiscus, is a long slab of plain grey stone. Along the ledge at one side of it a recent pilgrim had traced " | + | |
- | Below us stretched ridge on ridge of tropical | + | He heaved |
- | "Here he lies where he longed to be" this child of the dour north, with its grey skies and its piercing winds and its rain here, at peace, in the warm silence, shaded by hibiscus and palm. | + | |
- | Hail and farewell, | + | On a little flat knoll, about ten yards across, hemmed in by palm and hibiscus, is a long slab of plain grey stone. Along the ledge at one side of it a recent pilgrim had traced " |
- | 10. | + | |
- | THE MAN WITH THE TAR BRUSH. | + | Below us stretched ridge on ridge of tropical |
- | Though not decided, when this magazine goes to print it looks as though the majority favour Ingersoll Hall, Crown Street, just off Oxford Street, as a meeting place for the club. But remember that the night is Thursday. String for tying around the fingers and helping the memory is obtainable at all stores. | + | |
- | Who are we to complain? It is really a wonder that we were not thrown out of 01Connell | + | "Here he lies where he longed to be" |
- | Will the enthusiastic | + | |
- | Could you credit that behind such a frank, boyish countenance could lurk such horrible duplicity? Do you not tremble for the countryside in which such a monster of designing cynicism is roaming? John Burrows that wolf in Army clothing left Emu Plains station bound for the Federation Reunion but did he turn up? Well, yes, but only after an excessively long time which took some explaining. John Fidus Adhates, Peter Gracie, rushed over the landscape like a clucky hen looking for his protege and probably wondering what he was missing. | + | Hail and farewell, |
+ | |||
+ | =====The Man With The Tar Brush.===== | ||
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+ | Though not decided, when this magazine goes to print it looks as though the majority favour Ingersoll Hall, Crown Street, just off Oxford Street, as a meeting place for the club. But remember that the night is __Thursday__. String for tying around the fingers and helping the memory is obtainable at all stores. | ||
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+ | Who are we to complain? It is really a wonder that we were not thrown out of O' | ||
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+ | Will the enthusiastic | ||
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+ | Could you credit that behind such a frank, boyish countenance could lurk such horrible duplicity? Do you not tremble for the countryside in which such a monster of designing cynicism is roaming? John Burrows | ||
However John appeared next day with calm effrontery in white shorts. | However John appeared next day with calm effrontery in white shorts. | ||
- | There is still no ward of encouragement in reply to the request for a copy of "The Sydney Bushwalker Annual" | + | |
- | One of our absent members is wondering why we left "52 Hamilton Street." | + | There is still no ward of encouragement in reply to the request for a copy of "The Sydney Bushwalker Annual" |
- | any reason at all? (If answer in negative, addresses can be supplied). Briefly, the landlord of the tenant of whom we were subtenants | + | |
- | After the war, what? Anarchy, chaos, rebellion, refusal to "Keep off Grass" etc. And it is here with us NOW. Recently, when an official party showed a tendency to crawl out from under the thumb of a certain leader, he is reported to have declared of the trip "It is cancelled" | + | One of our absent members is wondering why we left "5, Hamilton Street." |
- | Another Reunion visitor was Colin Lloyd in blue trunks very attractive when new and dark glasses. I think he may have been practising | + | |
- | Yes, that loud laugh you could hear when every one else was trying to look as though they did not understand, | + | After the war, what? Anarchy, chaos, rebellion, refusal to "Keep off Grass" etc. And it is here with us - NOW. Recently, when an official party showed a tendency to crawl out from under the thumb of a certain leader, he is reported to have declared of the trip "It is cancelled" |
- | The large number of people at the Reunion was increased by a considerable number of halves. I believe that if one went to the right spot one could learn, during the day time, a whole lot about the conducting of creches. During the campfire | + | |
- | 11. | + | Another Reunion visitor was Colin Lloyd in blue trunks |
- | IF WE LET IT | + | |
+ | Yes, that loud laugh you could hear when every one else was trying to look as though they did not understand, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The large number of people at the Reunion was increased by a considerable number of halves. I believe that if one went to the right spot one could learn, during the day time, a whole lot about the conducting of creches. During the camp-fire | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====If We Let It.===== | ||
By Bona Dea. | By Bona Dea. | ||
- | We work very hard for the preservation of the bushlands and the enoeuragement | + | |
- | Of course the bush prevents soil erosion, protects the water supply, increases | + | We work very hard for the preservation of the bushlands and the encouragement |
- | It was this so-called " | + | |
- | You young ones, who dash gaily through the bush, may think that suffering is a phantom you will escape. But you won't. Sooner or later you will be up against it. Your swoot-heart goes off with someone else: your baby contracts an incurable disease and dies: your wife deserts you: you nurse your mother through her last illness and see her die in agony: you injure yourself and can walk no more so that every picture of bush- walking | + | Of course the bush prevents soil erosion, protects the water supply, increases |
- | I remembered that 2500 years agO the wise Buddha also had sat alone in the forest and pondered over this same problem of the inevitableness of suffering and how one could be freed from it. He discovered that the first step towards freedom from suffering was to accept the fact of suffering. That is a very bitter pill to swallow but, if you don't swallow it, you embitter your own life and make yourself a nuisance to others. And the second step he found was to give up " | + | |
- | As I sat alone in the bush I wondered whether the forest had helped him find that wisdom. Perhaps it had. For natural things accept what life brings; they don't " | + | It was this so-called " |
- | "It is easy enough to keep smiling | + | |
- | When life flows by like a song, | + | You young ones, who dash gaily through the bush, may think that suffering is a phantom you will escape. But you won't. Sooner or later you will be up against it. Your sweet-heart goes off with someone else: your baby contracts an incurable disease and dies: your wife deserts you: you nurse your mother through her last illness and see her die in agony: you injure yourself and can walk no more so that every picture of bushwalking |
- | But the man worth while | + | |
- | Is the one who will mile | + | I remembered that 2500 years ago the wise Buddha also had sat alone in the forest and pondered over this same problem of the inevitableness of suffering and how one could be freed from it. He discovered that the first step towards freedom from suffering was to accept the fact of suffering. That is a very bitter pill to swallow but, if you don't swallow it, you embitter your own life and make yourself a nuisance to others. And the second step he found was to give up " |
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+ | As I sat alone in the bush I wondered whether the forest had helped him find that wisdom. Perhaps it had. For natural things accept what life brings; they don't " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "It is easy enough to keep smiling\\ | ||
+ | When life flows by like a song,\\ | ||
+ | But the man worth while\\ | ||
+ | Is the one who will mile\\ | ||
When everything goes dead wrong. | When everything goes dead wrong. | ||
- | Can the bush help us keep smiling? That is the test of its " | + | |
- | 12. | + | Can the bush help us keep smiling? That is the test of its " |
- | NDRE TAR. | + | |
- | Just peeped into the Ingersoll Hall last week and received the shock of my life - Sydney Bushwalkers apparently enjoying themselves and amid scenes of wondrous splendour. Dancing,- yea, dancing. It was unfortunate that Ted NCKiernan | + | =====More Tar.===== |
- | For the unsophisticated there were bobs and table tennis while the complete social failures could admire the view of the harbour from the windows. There must be quite a number in the latter category judging by Phyllis | + | |
- | The Grand Organiser of all the excitement, Phil Hallo seemed to be too busy to dance or did he fear the weight of one of our " | + | Just peeped into the Ingersoll Hall last week and received the shock of my life - Sydney Bushwalkers apparently enjoying themselves and amid scenes of wondrous splendour. Dancing, yea, dancing. It was unfortunate that Ted McKiernan |
- | The Band Leader did his best to cheer us and showed considerable ingenuity in introducing us to one another, " | + | |
- | We could not better describe the effect of the music on club,members than by saying that, when the dance reached almost bacchanalian frenzy, several of Roloy's most cherished and rare females were seen to fly from under his protective wings. No harm resulted so fax as islknown. And of course something sensational is needed to bring people like Peter Jones, | + | For the unsophisticated there were bobs and table tennis while the complete social failures could admire the view of the harbour from the windows. There must be quite a number in the latter category judging by Phyllis |
- | One breathless and breath-taking matron told MB as she whisked past (alas.) "This is my three-monthly night out." | + | |
- | And mere youths of only twenty, such as Denis Gittoes, danced just, like as if they were twentyone. | + | The Grand Organiser of all the excitement, Phil Hall, seemed to be too busy to dance or did he fear the weight of one of our " |
- | Wives brought husbands (e g. Mary Eastoe, one husband) and husbands were se reckless as to lot wives (e g. Betty Dickinson) out alone. | + | |
- | Other people just worked hard for What they could get (e g.. .... .) | + | The Band Leader did his best to cheer us and showed considerable ingenuity in introducing us to one another. " |
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+ | We could not better describe the effect of the music on club members than by saying that, when the dance reached almost bacchanalian frenzy, several of Roley's most cherished and rare females were seen to fly from under his protective wings. No harm resulted so fax as is known. | ||
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+ | And of course something sensational is needed to bring people like Peter Jones, | ||
+ | |||
+ | One breathless and breath-taking matron told me as she whisked past (alas!) "This is my three-monthly night out." | ||
+ | |||
+ | And mere youths of only twenty, such as Denis Gittoes, danced just like as if they were twentyone. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Wives brought husbands (e.g. Mary Eastoe, one husband) and husbands were so reckless as to let wives (e.g. Betty Dickinson) out alone. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Other people just worked hard for what they could get (e.g.......) | ||
There was general approval of the dance but perhaps (some people are never satisfied) at the supper at these orgiastic affairs the coffee could be partnered by some soft drinks. | There was general approval of the dance but perhaps (some people are never satisfied) at the supper at these orgiastic affairs the coffee could be partnered by some soft drinks. | ||
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Once upon a time the camp-fire at a large official walk was in progress and while the singing was proceeding some wicked people were making coffee and surreptitiously putting a drop of rum in it. The crowd started to sing " | Once upon a time the camp-fire at a large official walk was in progress and while the singing was proceeding some wicked people were making coffee and surreptitiously putting a drop of rum in it. The crowd started to sing " | ||
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"Oh, lady, lady, have a sniff on me, have a sniff on me, | "Oh, lady, lady, have a sniff on me, have a sniff on me, | ||
- | and while accompanying the word " | ||
+ | and while accompanying the word " |
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