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Dad bought a wildflower book and he is always telling me to pick a flower and take it home to find I will out what the name of it is. Wishing you and the close now. bless God of luck. best the Bushies
myrtle.
you -.Your loving niece,
ANN MORROW.
-AND A POEM. "There are poems we would not sell They enfoe all the crowns of kings. shrine in matchless words some noble thought, some famous deed, some heart's great dream."-(Children's Encyclopaedia.) THE SHUT -EYE TRAIN. By Eugene Field. Come, my little one, with me' There are wondrous sights to see As the evening shadows fall, In your pretty cap and gown.
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MASS FOR THE DEAD. flspecially Contributed by Peter Brian) And you, by Grey dawn. Sleep. beloved, my love, in dove, my beautiful one. You have come to visit mo in my dreams. But I am awake Grey dawn. "And a grey mi ;t on the sea's fac'e, breaking." Sleep. "Tir'd eye -lids on tir'd eyes." "Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care' And in the distance a bell tolls. The Inchcape Rock. The Abbot of Aber-
brothok. Suddenly I was fully awake. I realised that the faintly tolling be'i was Don't detain the Angelus ringing from the monas The Shut -Eye traintery. I realised, too that it was All "Ting aling' the bell it goeth, Souls' Day. "Toot -toot!" the whistle bloweth, I lay there for a long time, thinking And we hear the warning call: of the dead. What a sad day it was. "All aboard for Shut -Eye Town!" and what a coincidence that Nature herself was decked in mourning weeds Shut -Eye Town is passing fair, on this day of grief. Outside the rain Golden dreams await us there: dreams, my dear, pattered. those shall dream We There I dressed without hurry. 3. How Much Does a Brick Weigh? Till the Mother Moon goes downDear Girls and Boys,would be many Masses at the monasA brick weighs six pounds and half See unfoldHow do you do? .1iy name is Bob, weight tery this morning. Not one, or two, is the What of its own weight. Delights untold! If you like you can cy i me Uncle Be'). or three; but three and three and of the brick? And in those mysterious places I can take it. three . You're going to hear a lot of me in We shall see belov'd faces, THE WEEK'S BEST LETTER. I entered by the side door, and dropAnd beloved voices hear ..the nest few weeks-and here's the Creek. ped to my knees. Yes, here was a Mahogany Town. Shut -Eve grace of Your dear old Aunt Bessy the In reason. priest in front of me, finishing a Mass Dear Aunt Bessy,-I received a letShe'll be mad at is taking a holiday. at the Lady Altar. At the high altar, ter from my pen -friend this week, and Heavy are our eyes, my sweet, me for calling her "old"-you know did screened from my view, I could hear she sorry what women are-but really it's be- she told me that she ishad not signed 'Weary are our little feetanother priest; at the altar on the opI but before, to me closer up Nestle cause I like her so much that I call not write posite side of the church I could Fee my name beneath it so she could not In your pretty cap and gown: her -old thing," 'old dear," etc. Funny. another priest, at the altar facing it I is very isn't it, how ladies object to the wo,1 answer it. Sister says that sheas I am Don't detain could not see, but could hear another pleased with me, particularly Now, if you were The Shut -Eye Train! "old" at any time? priest. The priest in front of me came getting on very well with my arith- "Ting-a -ling!" the bell it goeth, able to call me ''old Bob" or "old boy," to the foot of the altarmetic, which I used not to be very "Toot -toot!" the whistle bloweth, reckon we were great pals. As a "In nomine Patris et Filii ." The subject Oh. the sights that we shall see! matter of fact I belong to an Old Boys' good at, Aunt Bessy. Nature I glanced up at the portrait of Our is most Association-and do we have some which interests metells All aboard for Shut -Eye Town! Lady of Perpetual Succour. I read about all you it because good times together! But I've never Study, the words that ran in gold underand also about I GIVE YOU heard Aunt Bessy say that she belongs wildflowers, bird loving, neath: 'Sancta Maria, succurre mis(With Acknowledgments to Arthur to an Old Girls Association, and eris;" and lower down: "Monitra Te Mee.) frankly I'd like to be at a safe disEsse Matrem." I, Nature give to you, to be yours HOW WELL CAN YOU WRITE? tanee before I'd ask her about it. I prayed. for ever and ever, the right to the Well, there's the set-up, Somewhere a bell rang. Three times, I give free enjoyment of this world. Aunt Ressv's taking a holiday, boys. "The Record" is anxious to give and three again. From the far side of to you the years that are before you, and I'm taking over. I don't know children of all ages a chance to the church came a quiet voice: "In about you. ;ind the world that is Orihow long it'll last, but while it does talent. literary show their Patris et Filii . .." I give to you the Sun by day and nomine let's have some fun. of good standard will matter ginal The Masses continued in endless the Moon and Stars by night, with the You know, I like the look of you on this page, Poems. reproduced be cycle. Black -robed priests went away, power to wake as the Earth rolls into and others took their places. I can see you clearly in your people. stories or articles will be published, Bells and power to Sun, the light of the I'm no crystal -gazer, but I'm is letter, contribution the that provided tinkled. feet suffled. sleep when the night comes. agood letter -reader, Letter -realer short and is accompanreasonably of me began As the priest in front What beats me in Bob, that's me. ied by the name, age, and address his third Mass I sat up and looked ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF LETins through your letters is how you Address all contriof the writer. across to the body of the church. AND DONATIONS. TERS keep nil rolling the money in for the butions to either Aunt Bessy or with bowed head, Letters have been received from the There was Bushier' Scheme. That fair staggers c/o "The Record," following: Bushie, Bernadette Thomp- doing her duty. And over at the far T hadn't been on this job five Hay -street, Perth. was beginning a altar Father son, Marie O'Loughlin, Leonie Kenny, ...minutes before Aunt Bessy touched me My mind fled back over the Brian Hassell, Patricia Barry, No Mass. for a donati,,n to the Scheme, and We had been boys together. Name, Lorraine Butler, Laurel Lani- year.. when I looked down the list and saw insects and other animals. An- gan, Patricia Dooley, Willie Wagtail, And here he was now, bowing gravely what you kids were doing, I just had frogs, subject Flyand the Confiteor, with a priest many Health over is like I other Pain Cusack, Patricia Sinclair, Rayto dive for the pocket and fork out On Monday they were telling mond Rowler, Margaret Markham, years his senior for altar boy. i..Itate'v. I haven't got a halfpenny gienc, I sank on my knees and prayed for us about the Red Cross, and how in Yvonne Ferrirs, Ann Morrow, II.EAV., to iindle on a banbstone right now. went in among the dead, Ire!! T mustn't ramble on, because the early days one manseeing all the Enid Fontanella, Margaret Rowles, "It is a holy and a wholesome and John Trefry, Better Late Than Never, I've got some ideas for this page. Oh, all the fighting around, asked a soldier A Lover of the BUshies, Glenys Brind- thought to pray for the dead, that they that reminds me. Under the new set- wounded lyingdoctors may be loosed from their sins." were. He said, iey, Maureen Mulcahy. up, I won't he able to publish all your where all the Rcquiescat in Pace! We have only two doetors letters, girls and boys, because Mr. Ediafter THANKS. look WITH ACKNOWLEDGED "In nomine Patris et Filii . .." cannot doctors tor has got me tied down to a certain left, and two men." Then this man BuFhie, 10s: aerrarlette Thompson, amount of space. But all letters and six thousand NO MORE WOOD CUTTING! Amerifid: Marie O'Loughlin, 2s 6d: Leonie ,tr,nation, to the Scheme will he ac- asked for the release of all the doctors women to nurse the Kenny, 6s.; Brian Has -11, 2s 6d; Pa- can Perfection Stoves: ideal for coungot himself he and to able I'll be perhaps .and 7-cnowledged try and beach. At Hassell's. B6307. tricia Barry, 2s 6d; No Name (War so began the Red Cross publish the best letter received each wounded, and was our radio lesson. How would that he? Don't work. This week. to Bevan went away on Wednesday worry about how I'll know which is the inked Tarm at Bridgetown. He will best letter. Just leave it to Letter in a year's time for his reader Bob. I've got a wonderful be coming home holidays, and he will not be home for nose for smelling out good things. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Christmas. That night it was an awful Bring And now on with the page. sandwiches, out your Lemonade Bottle, and off rush. Mum was cutting sewing butbeen have and I should Over 30 years' experience in property manwith his head! tons on his shirts, but I was writing agement and rent collection enable us to BOB'S YOUR UNCLE. to you instead. offer you expert service in this direction. in the school I travel to and from BRAIN -TEASERS. last school go to not I train, but did' We also have extensive lists of private If you can't work these nut, set Mum week because of the coal strike. We ourchase in all suburbs. homes available them Give them. on and Dad to work have two dogs, one cat, one canary, arranged if required. terms Reasonable dog a couple of hours, and then tell them elder all the and one cocky. We the answers. You'll find them on Joe, and the younger one Ex. We We can offer you specialised service in all Page 16. also have one bantam hen and one branches of Real Estate. bantam rooster. The bantam hen has 1. What Did the Cork Cost? where know If the gone away, but we don't 1 bottle and a cork cost 21d. DUDLEY & DWYER LIMITED bottle cost 2d. more than the cork, to. I think she is sitting somewhere. SWORN VALUATORS. Anyhow Mum is keeping an eye out how much does the cork cost? for her to -day. ST. GEORGE'S TERRACE. 98 9. Who Is Tom's Uncle's Sister? I but now, pretty The bush is very 'Father, Tom says his uncle's sister The orchids. bird many find can't just is not his aunt." leschanaultia and myrtle are very "Well, I expect he is right " pretty. On Monday I found a piece Tom's not is sister If Tom's uncle's of white myrtle for the first time. One aunt, who is she?
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