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Updated: May 28, 2025
He stole away, with panting heart, and fearfully exulting eye; he ran ran ran, for miles it may have been scores of them till night-fall, on the soft and pleasant greensward under those high echoing woods. None pursued; safe safe; and deliciously he slept that night beneath a spreading wattle-tree, after the first sweet meal of freedom.
When there is a grub in a wattle-tree its diseased state, which produces excrescences, soon betrays this circumstance to the watchful eyes of a native, and an animal much larger than those found in the grass-tree is soon extracted; they seldom however find more than one or two of these in the same tree.
They possessed no words representing abstract ideas; for each variety of gum-tree and wattle-tree, etc., etc., they had a name, but they had no equivalent for the expression, 'a tree; neither could they express abstract qualities, such as hard, soft, warm, cold, long, short, round, etc.; for 'hard, they would say 'like a stone; for 'tall, they would say 'long legs, etc.; and for 'round, they said 'like a ball, 'like the moon, and so on, usually suiting the action to the word, and confirming, by some sign, the meaning to be understood."
We shall be pretty sure to see in the woods of Victoria a most curious example of bird-life and bird-instinct, in the instance of what is known as the bower-bird. This peculiar little creature builds a cunning play-house, a tiny shady bower which it ornaments with vines and highly colored feathers of other birds, besides the yellow blossoms of the wattle-tree and many light-green ferns.
Caddagat for me, Caddagat for ever! I say. Too engrossed with my thoughts to feel the cold of the dull winter day, I remained in my position against the wattle-tree until Gertie came to inform me that tea was ready. "You know, Sybylla, it was your turn to get the tea ready; but I set the table to save you from getting into a row.
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