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Only literary material by Australian authors individually indexed.
Other material in this issue includes:
First Page Picture: 'Good Camping to My Brother Cubs', [161].
Poetry: 'Out of Doors', by Willis Warren Kent, [161]; 'The Christ-Child', (unattributed), 166; 'A Christmas Pudding', Author not known, 168; 'An Old Christmas Carol', Anon., 176; 'Trust in God', by Charlotte Murray.
Prose: 'War', from Cassell's 'Commonwealth Citizen Reader', a book adapted by C.R.Long, 169-171; 'The Schafer Method Rhymed', illustrated, by Lucy Reader, Beechworth School, 171-172; 'Peace Within the British Empire', Adapted from Arthur Mee's 'My Magazine', London, 173.
Fiction: 'Tilly's Christmas', Adapted from 'My Boys', by Louisa M.Alcott, 162-165.
Moral Tale: 'The Hour-Glass', (unattributed), 172-173.
Notes: 'Intermediate Education', Education Department Melbourne, 167-168; 'Contents - Grades V and VI (1924), 175-176.
Preceding or following each piece is a short glossary of the longer words contained therein, as well as notes about people and places mentioned, and comments on the metre of poetry. There are also often 'General Notes' which ask the reader questions about the work.
Contents
* Contents derived from the 1924 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
A widow, full of grief that she has no money to buy her chidren gifts at Christmas, has a dream in which her mother reminds her of an inherited mahogany box which, when opened, has enough gold pieces to buy both presents and food.