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- | THE SYDNEY BUSHVILLKER | + | =====The Sydney Bushwalker===== |
A Monthly Bulletin, devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bush, Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney | A Monthly Bulletin, devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bush, Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney | ||
- | No 50 Price 3d. FFIBRUARY, 1939 | + | |
- | FAlitor: | + | ====No 50 Price 3d. |
- | Publication) Misses Dot. English and Mary Stoddart; Messrs Brian Harvey, | + | |
- | Staff Arthur | + | |**Editor**|Dorothy Lawry| |
- | MP...IWW..N.4W040040.1.P.W4..O.M.WM, | + | |**Business Manager**|J. W. Mullins| |
- | CONTENTS | + | |**Publication |
- | Editorial | + | |
- | I Learn to Roar ..... Off** by J. W. Minim 0 2 | + | =====Contents===== |
- | Reply to J.D. ow. 4o0, | + | |
- | " | + | | | |Page| |
- | At Our Own Meetings.... ..... It 6 | + | |Editorial| | 1| |
- | Some Notes about the Proposed Greater | + | |I Learn to Roar|by J. W. Minim| 2| |
- | Blue Mountains National Park *0000 by Alex. Colley | + | |Reply to J.D.|by D. E.| 4| |
- | "Badhwalking | + | |At Our Own Meetings| | 6| |
- | Epitaph | + | |Some Notes about the Proposed Greater Blue Mountains National Park|by Alex. Colley| 8| |
- | Hints For Canoe-lets 0.4woo | + | |"Bushhwalking |
- | Introspect | + | |Epitaph|by "One of the Girls"|10| |
- | First Aid Class to be held 00000 11 | + | |Hints For Canoe-ists| |10| |
- | " | + | |Introspect|by A. J. Salmon|11| |
- | That's Why ., | + | |First Aid Class to be held| |11| |
- | Federation News 40000 VOID 0 ow. **660 15 | + | |That's Why|by Dot. English|13| |
- | Club Gossip | + | |Federation News| |15| |
- | 11.114 4.64 | + | |Club Gossip|16| |
- | EDITORIAL | + | |
+ | =====Advertisements===== | ||
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+ | =====Editorial===== | ||
Before we took on this editing game, we used to wonder if there was much extra work involved in making a magazine run in " | Before we took on this editing game, we used to wonder if there was much extra work involved in making a magazine run in " | ||
- | this aspect,naw that. We have since discovered that there is no work involved at all; specials, like this " | + | this aspect, |
- | Next issue, and many others, we want tc come from the rabbits, hippos, | + | |
- | " | + | Next issue, and many others, we want to come from the rabbits, hippos, |
- | Notes from a Tiger Rag_ | + | |
+ | =====" | ||
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+ | ====Notes from a Tiger Rag==== | ||
By "Bill Mullins" | By "Bill Mullins" | ||
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Now, like Bottom, I can roar, roar so that it would do any man's heart good to hear me roar. But, unlike Bottom, I roar like a tiger and not a lion. | Now, like Bottom, I can roar, roar so that it would do any man's heart good to hear me roar. But, unlike Bottom, I roar like a tiger and not a lion. | ||
- | Walking with the Tigers is an education, seeing them eat is a sight for the heaven-born, | + | |
- | To start with we joined the now famous submarine party after its piscatorial pushing through the Upper Kowmung. Church Creek was the rendezvous and it held true. After arriving in a celestial chariot (" | + | Walking with the Tigers is an education, seeing them eat is a sight for the heaven-born, |
- | So to the Kowmung the next day (after a dawn start), where we met the Tigers. We (the new intrusion) | + | |
- | over the river bank and prepared our awn meal, but not before we had cleared away | + | To start with we joined the now famous submarine party after its piscatorial pushing through the Upper Kowmung. Church Creek was the rendezvous and it held true. After arriving in a celestial chariot (" |
- | litter in the form of ice-cream | + | |
- | Here it might be recorded that, after their efforts on the Upper Kowmung, they appeared to be quite the same old crew. However, our icthyologist was taken aback at not finding fins or gills in advanced stages of development; | + | So to the Kowmung the next day (after a dawn start), where we met the Tigers. We (the new intrusion) |
- | Breakfasts over, we limbered up for our long day's stage, through the BulgaDenis | + | over the river bank and prepared our own meal, but not before we had cleared away |
- | The port went round, as it does, with alarming alacrity, And, lo, it was gone.. | + | litter in the form of ice-cream |
- | First impressions were a starstrewn heaven and then, coming from the nearest tent, a dull, rythmical | + | |
- | The day's stage was not heavy thirteen miles or so - down to Cedar Creek on the Cox' | + | Here it might be recorded that, after their efforts on the Upper Kowmung, they appeared to be quite the same old crew. However, our icthyologist was taken aback at not finding fins or gills in advanced stages of development; |
- | -3-. | + | |
- | tired old Kowmung in our buckets and shuffled along to White Dog Bend for a good lunch, and a long, long siesta. | + | Breakfasts over, we limbered up for our long day's stage, through the Bulga-Denis |
- | That evening we camped on the Flat of a Thousand Joys by thu side of Cedar Creek. Tents packed about in a natural amphitheatre in abdul fashion made a homely sight with a river view. The original food party was making heavy weather in some quarters but, as related before, to see them eat is a sight for the heaven-born as they do not lack imagination at meal times. However, one of the new intruders was struggling stoically with mixed dried vegetables in soup form. Re being a Tiger was able to use his imagination too, so much so that for some hours he segregated himself and just chewed and chewed his soup. Yes, these Tigers have determination!: | + | |
- | And then, heaven fell in. | + | The port went round, as it does, with alarming alacrity, And, lo, it was gone.. |
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+ | First impressions were a starstrewn heaven and then, coming from the nearest tent, a dull, rhythmical | ||
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+ | The day's stage was not heavy - thirteen miles or so - down to Cedar Creek on the Coxs River, with lots of swims on the way. But the old Kowmung looked tired. It seemed tired of giving so much pleasure to the eyes of man; tired of juggling and lapping millions of grinding | ||
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+ | That evening we camped on the Flat of a Thousand Joys by the side of Cedar Creek. Tents packed about in a natural amphitheatre in abdul fashion made a homely sight with a river view. The original food party was making heavy weather in some quarters but, as related before, to see them eat is a sight for the heaven-born as they do not lack imagination at meal times. However, one of the new intruders was struggling stoically with mixed dried vegetables in soup form. He being a Tiger was able to use his imagination too, so much so that for some hours he segregated himself and just chewed and chewed his soup. Yes, these Tigers have determination!! | ||
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+ | And then heaven fell in. | ||
The heaven-born, | The heaven-born, | ||
- | The first shot wont over from the Capitalists. Smiting a Communist in the midriff, it was a foul blow so soon after tea. | + | |
- | It was just a time-worn catchphrase, | + | The first shot went over from the Capitalists. Smiting a Communist in the midriff, it was a foul blow so soon after tea. |
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+ | It was just a time-worn catchphrase, | ||
And all the time a Tiger sat chewing his soup. | And all the time a Tiger sat chewing his soup. | ||
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But, no, he had finished. He arose from his table, like a prophet from a bed of nails, with a Yogi-like stare. He would have his say. | But, no, he had finished. He arose from his table, like a prophet from a bed of nails, with a Yogi-like stare. He would have his say. | ||
- | No, there was no middle course, he said, those who would take a middle course were mugvumps. A non-combatant immediately flew into battle, as is their manner. Him a mug-wump! What did soup-chewer mean, | + | |
- | The S.C. grinned with that jail-breaker-cum-buccaneer leer. He would tell them. A mug-wump is one who sits on the fence; with his mug on one side and his wunp on the other. | + | No, there was no middle course, he said, those who would take a middle course were mugwumps. A non-combatant immediately flew into battle, as is their manner. Him a mug-wump! What did soup-chewer mean? |
- | Well, that was the beginning of the end. Slowly the standards came dawn. Who could stand crossfire and backdhat | + | |
+ | The S.C. grinned with that jail-breaker-cum-buccaneer leer. He would tell them. A mug-wump is one who sits on the fence; with his mug on one side and his wump on the other. | ||
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+ | Well, that was the beginning of the end. Slowly the standards came down. Who could stand crossfire and backchat | ||
The soughing of the trees, the clouds in the night sky and the moon made one forget too easily the world' | The soughing of the trees, the clouds in the night sky and the moon made one forget too easily the world' | ||
- | Crack ol dawn again, and, as usual, Tigers were up and about! Breakfast | + | |
- | and then the long yakker up Cedar Creek to Ruined Castle and the Coal Mine. All this passed too rapidly, for here, tucked between Narrow Neck and Korrowal, lies one of our prettiest brush creeks, so full of variety and 'wild growth, and yet | + | Crack o' |
+ | and then the long yakker up Cedar Creek to Ruined Castle and the Coal Mine. All this passed too rapidly, for here, tucked between Narrow Neck and Korrowal, lies one of our prettiest brush creeks, so full of variety and wild growth, and yet | ||
undefiled. | undefiled. | ||
- | Swims on the creek:were a more or less lie down affair, but sufficient it | + | |
- | was to cool off and then scramble on again over the granite boulders and along the leaf-strewn avenues betwixt the trees. Lunch on the way, and more stops before the | + | Swims on the creek were a more or less lie down affair, but sufficient it |
- | pull up the ridge to the Knife-edge. Only that delightful walk through the tree | + | was to cool off and then scramble on again over the granite boulders and along the leaf-strewn avenues betwixt the trees. Lunch on the way, and more stops before the pull up the ridge to the Knife-edge. Only that delightful walk through the tree ferns now remained, but how much it was appreciated! It must be an eye-opened |
- | ferns now remained, but how muCh it was appreciated! It must be an eye-opened | + | |
- | t9 the tourists who care to adventure out and beyond the shelter sheds! Then that | + | All were very hungry and much food was bought before the old train arrived, and so we proceeded to fill the gnawing cavities. |
- | - 4 - | + | |
- | last item, the cheap thrill on the winch railway, and again the seething masses of Katoomba, crowded trains, and the smells that hang around towns and railways. | + | Thus, as is related in the classics, another Tiger trip ended and, although this is told by an intruder, one who was not on the submarine excursion, the difficulties and joys can well be imagined |
- | 8 All were very hungry and much food was bought before the old train arrived, and so we proceeded to fill the gnawing cavities. | + | seen and things done by others, for it is pleasing to have travelled in delectable company. |
- | Thus, as is related in the classics, another Tiger trip ended and, although this is told by an intruder, one who was not on the submarine excursion, the difficulties and joys can well be imagined | + | |
- | seen and things done by others, for it is pleasing to have travelled in" | + | =====Reply to J. D.===== |
- | REPLY TO J. D. | + | |
- | In response to the Dirge in the last issue re Times snoring, we are pleased to report:, | + | In response to the Dirge in the last issue re Tim' |
- | With gratitude Jack's heart is a-flutter, | + | |
- | Tim has coated his tonsils with butter, | + | With gratitude Jack's heart is a-flutter,\\ |
- | Thus reducing his snore | + | Tim has coated his tonsils with butter,\\ |
- | From a thunderous roar | + | Thus reducing his snore\\ |
+ | From a thunderous roar\\ | ||
to a soft oleaginous mutter. | to a soft oleaginous mutter. | ||
- | Now the joys of the road are chiefly these: A crimson touch on the hardwood trees; | + | |
- | A vagrant' | + | Now the joys of the road are chiefly these:\\ |
+ | A crimson touch on the hardwood trees; | ||
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+ | A vagrant' | ||
In early fall, when the wind walks too; | In early fall, when the wind walks too; | ||
- | A shadowy highway cool and brown Alluring up and enticing down; | + | |
- | The outward eye, the quiet mill | + | A shadowy highway cool and brown\\ |
+ | Alluring up and enticing down; | ||
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+ | The outward eye, the quiet mill\\ | ||
And the striding heart from hill to hill; | And the striding heart from hill to hill; | ||
- | An open, hand, an easy shoe, | + | |
+ | An open hand, an easy shoe,\\ | ||
And a hope to make the day go through. | And a hope to make the day go through. | ||
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Bliss Carman. | Bliss Carman. | ||
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TliE WON - SUCH | TliE WON - SUCH | ||
41=1111, | 41=1111, |
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