Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-11-13
From Cassells Magazine.
LOST N THE SCRTB.
An AUSTRALIAN ADVENTURE.

lt might have been a home here in one Of
midland counties, the scene was 20 calm
and peaceful. The roughly-built cottage
with here and there its familiar oblects-tht
lal-tcsing Dutch clock, the cleanly-scrub.
he'd tlree-legged table, the biz Old family
Bible. the cage Of white wicker, with its rag
-al--aled thrush hopping from perch to perch
while seated in the middle Of the humble
-m. before tin bucket oC water, was an
ierly man, with Englishman written bold
IS u every feature Of his rugged. ruddy, sun
aimed face as he bent TO hi- task-that oI
I washing out the barrel of an old rifle. and
making the water play fountain-hke from tho
aurle as be forced down the cleaning-rOd. q.
t.c intense delight of a couple of rosy child
-.u Il might have been here. in some sun
rr country. but there WAS something about
rHc brightness OF the afternoon sun which
--reamed in at the open door, in the bluenes,
01 the sky. the clearness 0t the air. and the
scenery round. that was not English. The
lowers that clustered about the door andn0d
'cl round the rough windOw-fiame, and tn,
'iects that peepcd here and there from som,
1rner, too. told of foreign land while the
Iuge pines that shot up arrow-like toward:
the skv were such as could be seen nowher,
bgt in Australia.
e. The NOR b-utes have Ieen c,llin- vlu
le-s nv tbe last half boUr Sc said the man
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