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...ept night, not knowing what to do. Indeed. What would I do in this strange country? Where would we live? This had to be lunacy. I had set off to carry... ... in Finland. I looked along the Phahonlyothin to the railway crossing; the countryside seemed to start beyond it. There, behind the railway, near the ... ...in the house of the rice merchant Kitti Hunkittikul. Our life in a strange country began. The railway level crossing is still there, it is as potholed... ... houses, nor paintings - the walls are hung with pictures of the king, pop singers and film stars, and calendars, but some have acquired carved teak p... ... Ordinary Thai faces are only seen occasionally on TV news. Neither do pop singers on TV sing like people in Thailand used to sing. Their voices do no... ...le is tending towards the Western. Pop stars sing in the same style as pop singers on all the world's televisions. In Thailand, lightening shampoos, l... ...77. Thai Traditional Medicine. A preliminary investigation. Ph. D. thesis, Australian National University. Canberra. Murdock, George Peter (ed.) 1... ...k, T. H. (ed.) 1967. Thailand. Social and Economic Studies in Development. Australian National Univ. Press & Duke Univ. Press, Durham, N.C. — 1970. ... ...lcock (ed.), Thailand: Social and Economic Studies in Development, 65–83. Australian National Univ. Press. — 1968. Address, Abuse and Animal Categor...

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...a limit.‖ --―Touche‘ And Con is a retired businessman. He finds your country fascinating and wants to list it on the New York Stock Exchange. L... ...e life satisfaction as earning another $50,000 a year. —―In our country people tend to work instead of vacationing so they have extra mone... ...There are few universal ethical or legal standards. Treason against one‘s country is one. Murder of a person in your own society is also very common... ... our personal comfort is more important. A few years ago Lincoln Hall, an Australian, was in a group climbing Mount Everest. He was injured. His part... ...e tax breaks to symphony orchestras and operas and to their musicians and singers? How about secular private schools and hospitals? What about fitne...

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... people who own villas and mansions on different continents. People who have country homes and travel from the city to the country every week: are t... ... most arrogant, and the most detached from the earth. People who live in the country: despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the we... ... despise city dwellers who only come to the country when the weather is nice. Country people have to live in the country when it is cold and raining... ...t romantic thing in the world is to walk along a sand-covered beach. Why the Australian aborigines coming out of Africa walked 20,000 miles along t... ...d there. And did not come out for 75,000 years. They still do not come out. Australian aborigines have no interest in the rest of the world. This... ...the way during the migration process… and those that never left Africa and the Australian aborigines; all the rest of us can trace our ethnic roots b... ...; that features ordinary people trying to mimic-duplicate famous entertainers-singers. The premises… the assumptions… the norms, the normality, the... ... is a competition. It assumes that entertainers and artists and composers and singers must compete against each other in order to gain popular recog... ...e to compete at all… no matter if they happen to be ten times better than the singers who do compete… then they automatically lose. And are conside...

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...at proposi tion. O.M. For instance? Y.M. Take that noble passion, love of country, patrio tism. A man who loves peace and dreads pain, leaves his pl... ...lf to saving imperiled souls. He became a missionary. He landed in a pagan country ill and helpless. A native widow took him into her humble home and ... ...aled. O.M. That is what she surely does. In all his history the aboriginal Australian never thought out a house for him self and built it. The ant is... ...s always been cheerless, hopeless, despondent. As young fellows both tried country journalism—and failed. Burgess didn’t seem to mind it; Adams couldn... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...oon till ten at night. Nearly all the labor falls upon the half dozen head singers, and apparently they are required to furnish all the noise they can...

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...s he wished it warmly well; all that was good for it; plentiful din- ners, country excursions, stout menagerie bars, music, a dance, and to bed: he wa... ... due to the calling on himself for the rescue of an an- cient and glorious country; nor altogether to the spectacle of the shipping, over the parapet,... ...he voyageing forest, your London citizen of good estate has reproached his country’ s poets for not pouring out, succinctly and melodiously, his multi... ... you. But you are hungry? Y ou have been singing twice: three times! Opera singers, they say, eat hot suppers; they drink stout. And I never heard you... ...o greet her being shown. Colney Durance came in, bringing the rumour of an Australian cantatrice to kindle Europe; Mr. Peridon, a seeker of tidings fr... ... one hundred years hence to be a place of pilgrimage for Americans and for Australians. Age, he said, improves true beauty; and his eyelids indicated ... ...s of the merchant’s wealth, and the miner’s, and the gigantic American and Australian million- aires, high rank is of necessity vowed, in peril of utt...

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...hall come Wherever I beat the sounding drum, Till the roar of the march by country and town Shall shake the tottering Dagons down. For I was objectles... ... boldly smile upon despair And shake their bells in Grandam Grundy’s eyes. Singers should sing with such a goodly cheer That the bare listening should... ...now the battle won, The trumpets still. The shepherd’s slender strain, The country sounds again Awake in wood and plain, On haugh and hill. Loud wars ... ...rgin of the wood, and sees, Gazing afar before him, many a mile Of falling country, many fields and trees, And cities and bright streams and far-off O... ...son (1918) TO MISS CORNISH They tell me, lady, that to-day On that unknown Australian strand – Some time ago, so far away – Another lady joined the ba...

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... my good luck to serve under. He was a Plymouth man, I think, the son of a country doctor, and both his elder boys were studying medicine. He commande... ... work, this, for staunch ships, and a great school of staunchness for West-Country seamen. A whole fleet of copper-bot- tomed barques, as strong in ri... ...ubject of the degradation of the sea lan- guage in the daily press of this country. Your journalist, whether he takes charge of a ship or a fleet, alm... ...ewhere between the islands of St. Paul and Amsterdam and Cape Otway on the Australian coast. It was a hard, long gale, gray clouds and green sea, heav... ...nt, sweeping over the greatest body of solid land upon this earth. For the Australian east coast the East Wind is the wind of the ocean, coming across... ...o, year in, year out, took them from London—the place of captivity—to some Australian port where, twenty-five years ago, though moored well and tight ... ... in our discourse, upon sci- ence, politics, natural history, and operatic singers. Then, after remarking abruptly, “You seem to be rather intelligent...

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...er to be seen driving a vehicle externally like a young and volatile pianoforte van, and internally like an oven in which a num- ber of flat boxes are... ...rm of a branch station, quite a Druid in the midst of a light Stonehenge of samples. And yet—proceeding now, to introduce myself positively— I am both... ...connection in the fancy goods way. Literally speaking, I am always wandering here and there from my rooms in Covent-garden, London—now about the city ... ...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... ...gical periods, Criticism on Milton, the Steam-engine, John Bunyan, and Arrow-Headed Inscriptions, before they might be tickled by those unac- countabl... ... girl, was writing another letter on the bare deck. Later in the day, when this self-same boat was filled with a choir who sang glees and catches for ...

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...g all sorts of service, was at last employed as a government packet in the Australian seas. Being condemned, however, about two years previous, she wa... ...ur harpooners, only one was left, a wild New Zealander, or “Mowree” as his countrymen are more com- monly called in the Pacific. But this was not all.... ...surgeon of an emigrant ship. On his ar- rival there, he went back into the country, and after a few months’ wanderings, returned to Sydney penniless, ... ...n American whaler, and were desirous of ship- ping aboard one of their own country vessels. We made the land in the afternoon, coming abreast of a sha... ...paration has been made to send you to Sydney for trial. The Rosa (a small Australian schooner, lying in the harbour) will sail for that place in the ... ...d me forcibly. Many voices around were of great sweetness and compass. The singers, also, seemed to enjoy themselves mightily; some of them pausing, n...

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........................................................ 90 INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY....................................................................... ................................................................222 THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD ....................................................... ...and pale cock-crow. And can I trace in such dull eyes Of fireside peace or country skies? And could those haggard cheeks presume To memories of a May-... ...hite field-rose. Joy thus to revel all day in the grass of our own beloved country; Revel all day, till the lark mounts at eve with his sweet ‘tirra-l... ... The day is never darkened That had thee here obscure. III Water, first of singers, o’er rocky mount and mead, First of earthly singers, the sun-loved... ...en-lighted whitebeam: All seem to know what is for heaven alone. THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD Carols nature, counsel men. Different notes as rook ... ... 487 That truth once scored on Britain’s breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, T o tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust b...

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...with Benham. And we have died like Horatius, slaying our thousands for our country, or we have perished at the stake or faced the levelled muskets of ... ...n of his general pluck. But on one occasion he was lost in rocky waterless country in Somaliland. He strayed out in the early morning while his camels... ...ence, God the immortal adven- turer in me, God who calls men from home and country, 26 The Research Magnificent God scourged and crowned with thorns,... ...er of charming people of the war that was then imminent, listened to gipsy singers until dawn, careered in sledges about the most silent and stately o... ...ort. He 110 The Research Magnificent could produce wine, a half-bottle of Australian hock, Big Tree brand No. 8, a virile wine, he thought of sardine...

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...latencies will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I... ...e show or resonance of them—I come and I depart. 9 The big doors of the country barn stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest time lo... ..., rest hunters and trappers after their day’s sport, The city sleeps and the country sleeps, The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their... ... Southwesterner rais’d out doors? is he Kanadian? Is he from the Mississippi country? Iowa, Oregon, California? The mountains? prairie life, bush life... ...l upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes I beget upon you are to... ...sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castan... ...arts, What always indicates the poet is the crowd of the pleasant company of singers, and their words, The words of the singers are the hours or minut...

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.... Findlayson, C. E., turned on his trolley and looked over the face of the country that he had changed for seven miles around. Looked back on the humm... ...oo, it leaks like the devil, and the crops will also be short all about my country. Now you shall back her out, Hitchcock. I—I do not understand steam... ... this yer bogspavined Kansas sunflower goes up an’ daown the length o’ the country, traded off an’ traded on, boastin’ as he’s shed women—an’ childern... ...9 The Day’s Work infernal music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ancient times, and danced peculiar dances. The ab... ...m were rusted home; and, best of all, the hun- dred and sixty tons of good Australian coal in the bunkers had not diminished. 109 The Day’s Work “I d... ...he team; and Hughes Who’s Who, alias The Ani- mal. He was supposed to have Australian blood in his veins, but he looked like a clothes-horse, and you ...

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...romising buds! Satisfied, when I know that every alley and lane of town or country reeks with vice and corruption, and that there is one cry for worke... ...l hurry to the drawing-room, and tear open the black-edged letter with the Australian stamp. “All is right, mamma. She has been very ill, but is fast ... ...verything through some speculation of their brother. I believe he fled the country under some terrible suspicion of dishonesty; and though no one thou... ...r. “Nests are made to be taken,” said Francis. “I’ve got an egg of all the Australian birds the Major could get me,” said Conrade, “and I mean to have... ...aving begun his career with such mortal offence to the native fiddlers and singers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply the... ... ascertain where Edward was, so as to be sure of the date. It was a little country village, and I 83 Yo n g e made a blunder in copying the spelling ... ...I always meant that for Ermine. I think she must have the emu’s egg set in Australian gold.” “If she were to be induced by the bribe,” said Colonel Ke...