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-'ECHIDNA by.
+=====Echidna.=====
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+by "K.M."
 It was blackberry time, so I took a billy, put on my least holey gardening gloves and went prospecting in the neighbouring bush.
-Passing through the underbrush of hakeas and grevilleas, I heard a faint stealthy rustling and paused to listen. The rustling stopped too, then went on again a few yards from where ,I was 2tanding, Cautiously I pressed through the scrub, expecting, to find a snake or perhaps an old blue-tongue lizard going about his affairs. But there, lumbering through the fallen leaves, was spiny ant-eater himself.. . ,
-He heard me and froze in his tracks, waiting for what might 'befall. I stooped and armed with my leather gloves tried to pick him up but no limpet on its rock clung more firmly than he to Mother Earth. In fact, he not only clung but appeared to_be submerging in the soil.
+Passing through the underbrush of hakeas and grevilleas, I heard a faint stealthy rustling and paused to listen. The rustling stopped too, then went on again a few yards from where I was standing. Cautiously I pressed through the scrub, expecting to find a snake or perhaps an old blue-tongue lizard going about his affairs. But there, lumbering through the fallen leaves, was spiny ant-eater himself.
-fI' pulled and heaved and managed to get a good look at his moist earth- sprinkled nose - or rather bill, flat and broad like that of a platypus-and at the claws, wide and horny capable,they tell us, of scraping. their way through ooncretelgiven a crack le start on. With these he dug so firmly into the earth that not all my efforts could dislodge him. My gloves, thick thoUgh they were, were not preofragainst his sharp quillsl and at last I'getve up the struggle.
-A long time we waited in silence, I not moving a muscle and hardly
+He heard me and froze in his tracks, waiting for what might befall. I stooped and armed with my leather gloves tried to pick him up but no limpet on its rock clung more firmly than he to Mother Earth. In fact, he not only clung but appeared to be submerging in the soil.
-daring to breathe. I wanted to see him in action, and feared that' if, Irstartled him he would burrow into the earth and vanish right under my nose.- e
-At last his head,, which ho had withdrawn as far as possible, pokedee#2, and I could see himlistening intently. Still I did not move and, reassuted4 he wheeled round cumbrously and proceeded on his way, for all the world,iiko. a miniature tank, creeping -slowly but surely over every obstacle in his path. He scaled a low rock on the edge of the creek bed and lurchod'out of sight down the slope.
+I pulled and heaved and managed to get a good look at his moist earth-sprinkled nose - or rather bill, flat and broad like that of a platypus - and at the claws, wide and horny capable, they tell us, of scraping their way through concrete, given a crack to start on. With these he dug so firmly into the earth that not all my efforts could dislodge him. My gloves, thick though they were, were not proof ragainst his sharp quills, and at last I gave up the struggle.
-As for met I came out of a trance and wont in search of my blackberries,
-rejoicing in even so brief a mooting with this strange fellow-countryman of mine.
+A long time we waited in silence, I not moving a muscle and hardly daring to breathe. I wanted to see him in action, and feared that if I startled him he would burrow into the earth and vanish right under my nose.
-BACKYARD BUSHWALKING
-The ' 'stage is set for a bounteous spring in the bush, for in this genial
+At last his head, which he had withdrawn as far as possible, poked out, and I could see him listening intently. Still I did not move and, reassured, he wheeled round cumbrously and proceeded on his way, for all the world like a miniature tank, creeping slowly but surely over every obstacle in his path. He scaled a low rock on the edge of the creek bed and lurched out of sight down the slope.
-climate winter barely announces its arrival before signs of spring are apparent.
-The frequent showers have kept the soil moist and everything makes splendid
+As for me, I came out of a trance and went in search of my blackberries, rejoicing in even so brief a meeting with this strange fellow-countryman of mine.
-growth. The air is heavy with the scent of wattles in bloom. In my, bush garden are two shrubs'of creamy five corners (styphia laeta) which are smothered in
-flowers and a small red one (styphelia tuniflora) has just finished flowering. A clump of lysinema pungens is also in fragrant bloom.- .
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-An item of news from the nursery,- 3 seeds of fine-leaved geebung (persoonia pinifola) planted i# October 1944 have germinated and are growing well. A batch of waratah seeds planted 2 months ago has rotted in the tins whereas seed planted at a similar time last year germinated readilY. Maybe the
-soil was different or maybe the co-1 snap we had before Easter upset them. Waratahs planted out a few months ago are going well,
+=====Backyard Bushwalking.=====
-GOOD NEWS; Compactum knife, fork and spoon sets are here again better than ever, 677-per set, Military Maps now released for sale, hope to have stocks
-in a week or two, , -
+The stage is set for a bounteous spring in the bush, for in this genial climate winter barely announces its arrival before signs of spring are apparent. The frequent showers have kept the soil moist and everything makes splendid growth. The air is heavy with the scent of wattles in bloom. In my bush garden are two shrubs of creamy five corners (styphia laeta) which are smothered in flowers and a small red one (styphelia tuniflora) has just finished flowering. A clump of lysinema pungens is also in fragrant bloom.
-PADDY PALLIN.a. Camp Gear for Walkers, Phone B3101. 327 George Street; Sydney
+An item of news from the nursery - 3 seeds of fine-leaved geebung (persoonia pinifola) planted in October 1944 have germinated and are growing well. A batch of waratah seeds planted 2 months ago has rotted in the tins whereas seed planted at a similar time last year germinated readily. Maybe the soil was different or maybe the cold snap we had before Easter upset them. Waratahs planted out a few months ago are going well,.
+====Good News:====
+Compactum knife, fork and spoon sets are here again - better than ever, 6/- per set. Military Maps now released for sale; hope to have stocks in a week or two.
+Paddy Pallin, Camp Gear for Walkers
+Phone B3101. 327 George Street, Sydney
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 EASTER AGAIN