Then--as now and to-morrow--mended and sound and sane,
Flushed by the noonday sunshine, freshed by the twilight rain,
Trailing their trophies behind them, armed with the strength of ten,
Back they came from the jungle ready to start again.
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Ye who have travelled the wilderness, ye who have followed the chase,
Whom the voice of the forest comforts and the touch of the lonely place;
Ye who are sib to the jungle and know it and hold it good--
Praise ye the name of NIMROD, a Fellow Who Understood.
H.B.
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THE HOUSE-AGENT'S FORLORN HOPE.
"TWO-AND-A-HALF MILES FROM STATION WITH NON-STOP TRAINS."--_Weekly Paper._
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A TRAGIC COINCIDENCE.
"TEN PROFESSORSHIPS VACANT
IN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY.
Lausanne, Monday.
The giant British aeroplane G.E.A.T.L., from Cricklewood aerodrome,
London, landed at Blecherette, Lausanne, at 6-5 this evening."--_Irish
Paper._
Did all the ten Sydney Professors fall out of it together?
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AT THE PLAY.
"THE PRUDE'S FALL."
Though the hero is French and takes up his residence in an English
cathedral town in order to rectify our British prudery and show us how to
make love, there is practically nothing here that is calculated to bring a
blush to the cheek of modesty. It is true that from time to time _Captain
le Briquet_ kisses various outlying portions of his "_ange adore_," but it
is all very decorous and his ultimate intentions are strictly respectable.
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