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Issue Details:
First known date:
1911...
no.
174
October
1911
of
The School Paper for Class III
est. 1896
The School Paper for Class III
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Bird Number
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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
- First page picture: 'Young Wood Swallows' photograph by A. H. Mattingley, Melbourne.
- Poetry: 'Don't Kill the Birds' (unattributed), 129.
- Fiction: 'Red-Bill' extract from The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes (q.v.), 135-136.
- Prose: 'A Chat About the Months: October' (unattributed) with two unnamed pieces of poetry (indexed below) by Henry Lambert Thompson (q.v.) and Henry Clarence Kendall (q.v.), with illustration: 'An Excursion on Bird Day' (unattributed) photograph, 136-138.
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Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry. There are also often 'General Notes' which ask the reader questions about the work.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1911 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
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The Birds' Concert,
extract
children's fiction
children's
(p. 130-133)
Note: With illustrations: 'The Emu', photograph of a specimen in the National Museum, Melbourne, 'The Lyre-Bird', photograph of a specimen in the Entomological Museum, Melbourne, and 'The Kookaburra Or Laughing Kingfisher' (unattributed).
- Untitledi"Sing not of sorrow, for our skies are blue", extract poetry (p. 136)
- [Untitled]i"Where fountains sing, and many waters meet,", extract poetry (p. 136)
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Black Cockatoosi"High up, along the clear, blue sky,",
single work
poetry
(p. 138-139)
Note: With illustration: 'Black Cockatoo' photograph by A. H. Mattingley.
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Rosie and Old Red,
selected work
children's fiction
children's
(p. 139-143)
Note: With illustrations: 'Superb Parrot (Green Leek)' photograph of a specimen in the National Museum, Melbourne; 'A Rosella' photograph of a specimen in the National Museum, Melbourne; 'Nest of a Rosella' photograph by A. H. Mattingley; 'A Native Cat of Dasyure' photograph by A. H. Mattingley.
- Christmas Morning Morning in the Bush (December)i"The magpie 'midst the wattle blooms", single work poetry (p. 144)
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How the Emu Got the Hump on Her Back (As Told to the Piccaninnies),
single work
children's fiction
children's
(p. 144)
Note: With photograph 'The Native Companion' from a specimen in the National Museum, Melbourne.
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