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swim was enjoyed here b\- most of the party. The sand teemed 

 witli myriads of tiny red crabs, wliirh hinriedl\- entered tlieir 

 h<»U"S on i>nr approaeli. 



Cuttinj; t)ff tlie northern I'nd f)f Norman Bay, we appn>aehtcl 

 Leonard Bay, and on tlie lieadland found the Angular Pigface, 

 Mesemhrvanthcmum ccquUaicralc, the large red fruit of which 

 we found most palatable. Leaving Leonard Bay, we made 

 inland to the main track, and so back to the Darby River camp, 

 to find a tea of rock-cod, caught and prepared for us by 'the 

 two who had elected to remain at home. Some thirty odd 

 people gathered round the camp-iire that evening. Old camp 

 songs were sung and stories old and new told while the billies 

 boiled and the larder was ransacked for delicacies. A vote of 

 thanks was passed to the ranger, Mr. Cripps, who had done 

 so much to make the camp a success. 



Next morning our last swim down the Darby, our last surf 

 in the ocean, was taken. The camp was dismantled, and in 

 the afternoon eleven happy, sunburnt people, hugging treasures 

 too precious to go in the buggy as general luggage, were to be 

 seen tracking across to the shore; of Corner Inlet, there to find 

 our boat in full sail awaiting us on the evening tide, though it 

 was the next tide before we started for home, with "Teddy 

 Dincombe," a wee ball of grey, entering on his first sea 



voyage. 



Teddy Dincombe Fuzzy Wuzzy, now a year old, resides at 

 Hawthorn, permitted to do so by a permit issued by the Fisheries 

 and Game Department. He has doubled in size since we captured 

 him. He has his full freedom, which sometimes he abuses ; 

 but who can blame him when a hundred or more gum-trees nod 

 and wave their heads to him and invite him over to their side 

 of the fence ? Those who see him in the daytime or during his 

 evening meal would get a surprise to see him racing up and 

 down the trees and jumping from bough to bough. Some- 

 times he walks " Blondin " on a paling fence for a couple of 

 Inmdred feet or so, then, jumping off, will gallop across an open 

 space of several hundred feet to the nearest tree, into which hCj 

 digs his claws and races up. You may go after him and call 

 and call, but Teddy Dincombe will come down when it suits! 

 liim. It may be soon, with a quick run, a few sharp snorts, 

 and a jump,"and he is on to you ; or it may be a day or twoj 

 later, when, tired of solitude, he will come creeping down, put 

 liis cold kid nose on to your neck, his fore-paws on Nour 

 shoulder, and drop into your arms. He is fond of company, 

 and likes being nursed. In the evening he will wander round 

 the house until he finds someone who is sitting still ; then he 

 will climb up and go to sleep. 



As ri'gards food, lie has very strong likes and dislikes. 



