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Notes

Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.

Other material in this issue includes:
- Poetry: 'An Arbor-Day Thought', 65; 'Bob White' by George Cooper, with illus., 67-68; 'Little Gustava' by Celia Thaxter (q.v.) (1836-94), with illus., 71; 'Good King Wenceslas' (unattributed), 75-76; 'Welcome Home' (unattributed), 78.
- Prose: 'Poor Johnny!' (unattributed), 73.
- Fiction: 'How Pansie Was Examined' from Pansie's Flour-Bin, 65-67; 'Tom Edward and the Wasp's Nest' (unattributed), with illus., 72-73; 'Stories of the Scotch Collie' (unattributed), 76-77; 'Plucky Joe' by Reuben E. Wenham, 77-78.
- Moral Instruction: 'The Angler and the Little Fish' Aesop (q.v.), 78.
- Natural History: 'Hop Growing in Victoria' by J. Hocking, Yackandandah State School, with illus., 68-70.
- Puzzles: 'A Tongue-Twister' (unattributed), 70; 'Simple Experiments, Puzzles, Etc' by S.S., with illus., 79.
- Music: 'Recessional' by Kipling, tune by Stella, 80.
- Notices: 'Notices' (unattributed), 79.
Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words, as well as notes about people and places mentioned and comments on the metre of poetry.