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Page 19 - Twas merry in the glowing morn, among the gleaming grass, To wander as we've wandered many a mile, And blow the cool tobacco cloud, and watch the' white wreaths pass, Sitting loosely in the saddle all the while. 'Twas merry 'mid the blackwoods, when we spied the station roofs, To wheel the wild scrub cattle at the yard, With a running fire of stockwhips and a fiery run of hoofs ; Oh ! the hardest day was never then too hard ! Aye! we had, a glorious gallop after "Starlight" and his gang, When they...
Page 4 - The pride to rear an independent shed, And give the lips we love unborrowed bread : To see a world, from shadowy forests won, In youthful beauty wedded to the sun; To skirt our home with harvests widely sown, And call the blooming landscape all our own. *~, 7 Our children's heritage, in prospect long.
Page 36 - The accuracy of these readings of the blacks was afterwards curiously corroborated by the children themselves. On the eighth day after they were lost, and long after the extinction of the faintest hope of their ever being again seen alive, the searching party came on them. They are described as having been found lying all of a row on a clump of broom among some trees, the youngest in the middle, carefully wrapped in his sister's frock. They appeared to be in a deep, and not unpleasant sleep. On being...
Page 73 - In 1842, that is, after the interval of seven years, they mustered only fifty-four individuals ; and, while each family of the interior of New South Wales, uncontaminated by contact with the whites, swarms with children, those of Flinders...
Page 10 - SHE has a beauty of her own, A beauty of a paler tone Than English belles. Yet southern sun and southern air Have kissed her cheeks until they wear The dainty tints that oft appear On rosy shells. Her frank, clear eyes bespeak a mind Old-world traditions fail to bind. She is not shy Or bold, but simply self-possessed ; Her independence adds a zest Unto her speech, her piquant jest, Her quaint reply.
Page 109 - The tea-plant is a small tree or shrub, with five white petals, or flower-leaves, shaped like those of a rose, having smaller ones of the same figure in the intermediate spaces, and twenty or more filaments or threads. The tree sometimes grows to a moderate height, and is generally bare on the lower part, with a number of small branches growing close together towards the top. The leaves are small and pointed, like those of the myrtle ; it bears a dry roundish seedcase, and grows commonly in dry places...
Page 36 - Here, little one tired; sit down. . Big one kneel down, carry him along. Here travel all night ; dark ; not see that bush ; her fall on him." Further on, and more observations. " Here little one tired again ; big one kneel down ; no able to rise, fall flat on his face.
Page 5 - The orange -grove's and fig-tree's breath prevails; Survey with pride beyond a monarch's spoil, His honest arm's own subjugated soil; And summing all the blessings God has given, Put up his patriarchal prayer to Heaven, That when his...
Page 50 - ... being pressed, he was forced to try to swim across the arm of the sea which, at the place where he took the water, cannot have been less than two miles broad; in spite of a fresh breeze and a head sea against him, he got fully half-way over but he could not make head against the waves any further and was obliged to turn back when being quite exhausted, he was soon killed.
Page 36 - Duff, wandered by themselves into the bush and were lost. They had been sent out by their mother, as they had often gone out on the same errand "before, to gather broom, and not returning before dark the parents became alarmed, and a search commenced. The father, assisted by friends and neighbours in large numbers, scoured the country in every direction for nights and days in vain. At length, in despair, the assistance of some aboriginal blacks was obtained — these people possessing an almost bloodhound...