Show have an of AUSTRALIA our readers relatives in australia II 11 so no doubt they would like to hear about that is lind which is the largest in the world england could be away in one of its comais without making much difference in its size if you will remember chii you will that the climate is diffrient in different parts of australia the north which is equator being the hottest if a pole could be pushed as if it lay k against our feet through the eaith aiom england to authala Au which is ailed our antipodes when it is noon with us it is midnight in australia lecausi both halves ot our bourd world cannot be turned towards the sun at ance what is still moie to realize ii that while we are sitting around our christim Christ nm ares eating plum pudding our australian friends aie resting dundei then trees eating strawberries when the first began to colonize australia al out ears ago there weikuo towns holaine houses even the natives lived in liels or made a sort ot shelter of boughs ot trees ahey only sp nt a hort time in each place so it WAS not woith their while to abuid good houses 1 hey did not cultivate the land wo do or lapp J flocks and heads heids but they lived on root grubs opp fish snakes and many other naty things ahe women who were called gins did all the work roide their own poor shelter caught their own food carried the babies and got little but kicks for then puns since ohp english hive been on the inland the blacks have ed i artly because they no longer hae vas tracts of land to roam over at will partly through the disease they hue caught from us pirila through hiving learned to drink partly aiom fighting with us ahe faist english who landed in large numbers were convicts so we ann cnn imagine that the wera not very kindly treated british energy his built many flourishing towns made thousands of miles ot railway lail way opened several important mines and now auries curies on a 1 thriving trade with all baity of the world from arlous parts of australia come gold copper coil wool hides skins ballom oil and and now ou are perhaps eating australian oranges we have introduced animals country such as horses cobb sheep and pigs there abc also a gibat you may sec in the zoological garden such as the kangaroo dingo or wild dog emu parrot and cockatoo kangaroos aro not bad to cat when they aro young tough when old owing I 1 suppose to the amount ofa ump ing they do ahe janots and cockatoos cocka toos make excellent soup TUB buds do not sing much and heia arc no thrushes or nightingales but there la a queer bud that laughs i i aya loudly at domms noon and s is called the laughing jackass an other bud makes a noise like a bell 1 he lire bird is named on account of its tail which is fuit like 11 re in chape mid ful if any one is fond of riding he should go to australia tho towns are so fai apart and the roads so few and so bad that almost the only way of moving where is m railway is oh horse A r owns aliat we should call a farm but v hat ho calls a station that his own house with buildings bui dings around it for his men ahe next station is probably forty mile miles s off and the nearest town double that distance the sattley has what is called a grass inn also several bundled acres ot glass on which he keeps cattle or sheep or perhaps he cultivates at the great drawback of australia is the want of w ater the mountains are too low and too diw to attract clouds in number to form large when malonff dio ith comes the few the glass becomes like th cattle die by thousands and mand cottiers aie ruined but many fei tile spots not far inland and a mountain such aie unknown ahe mountain attracts atti acts the clouds which ml in rain and the spot is green and drink is a great curse in aus trail J so a colonist s best chance of access uc cess in tins new country is to be come a total abstainer hb when he lands and to pitch his tent near a mountain |