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Updated: May 11, 2025
Church spires and windmills are the most prominent objects in the landscape; but though the flatness of the scenery is monotonous, there is something pleasing to the eye in the endless succession of well-cultivated fields, interrupted at intervals by patches of rough bushland, canals, or slow-moving streams winding between rows of pollards, country houses embowered in woods and pleasure-grounds, cottages with fruitful gardens, orchards, small villages, and compact little towns, in most of which the diligent antiquary will find something of interest a modest belfry, perhaps, with a romance of its own; a parish church, whose foundations were laid long ago in ground dedicated, in the distant past, to the worship of Thor or Woden; or the remains, it may be, of a mediæval castle, from which some worthy knight, whose name is forgotten except in local traditions, rode away to the Crusades.
All along that disk the light was already broken, here and there flickering up, here and there dying down; the six lamps in that half of the circle still twinkled, but faintly, as stars shrinking fast from the dawn of day. But it was not the fading shine in that half of the magical ring which daunted my eye and quickened with terror the pulse of my heart; the Bushland beyond was on fire.
"It's a jolly good thing when a fellow has a sister, anyhow." He came over to her and put his arm round her shoulders. "Dear old chap!" he said. They went down the stairs together. The Bush hath moods and changes, as the seasons rise and fall, And the men who love the Bushland they are loyal thro' it all. "The day after to-morrow is the date of the men's dance," Mr. Linton said.
Now, in childhood Blanche had just one of those faces that might become very lovely in youth, and would yet quite justify the suspicion that it might become gryphonesque, witch-like, and grim. Yes, Blanche, it is perfectly true! Steps one's sense of hearing grows so quick in the Bushland! steps, though as light as ever brushed the dew from the harebell!
"It won't be the same, Uncle Phil." The boy raised his head to look over the distant bushland. His face was composed. "Timmy, I hesitate to say this, but " "I don't seem very upset about it?" "Well, yes. Did you really care much for Homer? You never paid any attention to him, never petted or played with him, just let him tag along."
On a wooded rise ten miles from the outskirts of the town, close by a bluff overlooking the bushland, the tan walls of a small tent warmed to the late afternoon sun. Here and there beyond the bushland the supper-smoke of scattered farms stood columned and motionless. The only sound on the still air was the harsh, labored breathing of the dying Homer.
Now, in childhood Blanche had just one of those faces that might become very lovely in youth, and would yet quite justify the suspicion that it might become gryphonesque, witch-like, and grim. Yes, Blanche, it is perfectly true! Steps one's sense of hearing grows so quick in the Bushland! steps, though as light as ever brushed the dew from the harebell!
Guy shows the "Lives of the Poets," Vivian asks if it is possible to get the Life of Clive, or Napoleon, or a copy of Plutarch. Guy shakes his head; says if a Robinson Crusoe will do as well, he has seen one in a very tattered state, but in too great request to be had a bargain. The party turn into the hut. Miserable animals are bachelors in all countries, but most miserable in Bushland.
David James, junior, carried his belongings in the Otago bushland of the Globe Theatre, London. 'Chums' hit the New Zealand fancy, and the little play was kindly received in many places. I had begun to write another drama of a much more serious sort, and was working pretty busily as well at a revised edition of my first effort, when a serious accident befell us.
Unfortunately it is not the woman nor the man either, for that matter who drives around in a car, that will buckle down and do this nation's work! I also knew there were others like myself who think this backwoods bushland God's own earth and second only to Paradise but few! And these young girls that quake at their loneliness and yet go for a pittance and fill a mission!
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