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Updated: May 14, 2025

Steelman and Smith sat on deck-chairs behind a half-screen of ferns on the other end of the balcony, smoked their after-dinner smoke, and talked in subdued tones as befitted the time and the scene great, softened, misty hills in a semicircle, and the water and harbour lights in moonlight.

Henry Lawson - Over the Sliprails

The door was wide open, but there was a half-screen swinging in the opening which hid all but the legs and feet of the men standing at the bar. Here the voices were much plainer. There were a few boys hanging about the doorway, late as the hour was.

Helen Beecher Long - How Janice Day Won