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A BUSH CALENDAR 



It was the kookaburras that, woke me this morning. A 

 family of them has been brought up down in the gully, and now 

 that the youngsters are able to travel round with their parents 



the whole family 

 comes up every 

 dawn-tide and greets 

 the sun from a tall 

 gum-tree just outside 

 my garden fence. 

 There they give loud 

 expression to their 

 enjoyment of life ; the 

 old ones are glad 

 that their family is 

 safely reared, and the 

 young ones are glad 

 they are alive, and so 

 they lift their voices, 

 and laugh and laugh 

 at the whole world. 

 This morning I felt 

 /;/ serious mood ! t ] iat ^gy were laugh- 



KOOKABURRA m at me ^ or being 



such a lie-a-bed, 



when the sky was all rosy-flushed and the world was so sweet. 

 It was ludicrous. Even though from my verandah bed I can see 



