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'I am very glad indeed that we did meet. Stay with us over tomorrow. I only wish I were not obliged to go to London on Wednesday. Look, Fanny, isn't that a hawk, over Cowley Bridge? 'Do you feel you would like to shoot it? asked Miss Moorhouse who a moment ago had very closely examined Peak's face. 'To shoot it why do you ask that? 'Confess that you felt the desire.
In the Adelaide district, Mr. Moorhouse has observed, that there are five stages to be passed through, before the native attains the rank of a bourka, or full grown man. At from twelve to fourteen, the third stage is entered, by having the ceremony of circumcision performed, which takes place in the following manner.
Warricombe regarded him, and mused; Buckland, a smile of peculiar meaning on his close lips, glanced from him to Miss Moorhouse. 'Ah, then, you heard Canon Grayling, remarked the father of the family, with something in his tone which answered to Sidwell's facial expression. 'How did you like his sermon?
Moorhouse was really to blame for this, for, vain man that he was, he carried a little pocket looking-glass by which we discovered the condition we were in. Had he left the glass behind we would probably have remained black and happy till our return. On the last day we had a close shave for our lives.
You still care for that kind of thing? 'Most certainly. How can you doubt it? Buckland smiled, and gave no other reply. 'Ask Fanny to show you the way when you care to go. And he left the room. Sidwell had fallen into conversation with Mr. Moorhouse. Miss Moorhouse, Mrs. Warricombe, and Louis were grouped in animated talk.
Moorhouse appeared in the distance, walking hither under parasols. The girls rose to meet them, and were presently engaged in less interesting colloquy. This summer Peak became a semi-graduate of London University. To avoid the risk of a casual meeting with acquaintances, he did not go to London, but sat for his examination at the nearest provincial centre.
Moorhouse is totally unconnected, that gentleman's notes refer exclusively to abstract matters of fact, relating to the habits, customs, or peculiarities of the people treated of, and are generally confined to the Adelaide Tribes. From the necessity, however, of altering in some measure the phraseology, to combine Mr.
Rhodes Moorhouse flew low over the German lines the other day, in order to bombard the German station at Courtrai. He planed down to 300 feet, and became the target for a hundred guns. In the murderous fire he was wounded, and might have descended, but he was determined not to let the Germans have his machine. He planed down to 100 feet in order to gather speed.
By infants I mean such as had to be carried in the arms, for those who could walk at all have been classed among the boys and girls. I have never known a case of twins among the Aborigines, and Mr. Moorhouse informs me that no case has ever come under his observation; but Captain Grey found such to occur sometimes in Western Australia.
Moorhouse and her daughter made the pleasant exclamations that were called for. Buckland Warricombe, with a doubtful smile on his lips, kept glancing from Miss Moxey to her acquaintance and back again. Peak at length faced him. 'I hoped we should meet down here this autumn. 'I should have looked you up in a day or two, Buckland replied, seating himself.
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