“Oh, I shan’t! you deceiver!” she said.

And the mulga and salmon-gums all,

In this star-gazing argument caught,

Sang, “You will!” “Oh, I shan’t!”

In a soul-wrecking chant—

But they thought in their hearts that she ought.

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A BENDER AND SOME OF THE MOODS
THAT LEAD UP TO IT.

When days are long and nights are dull,

And life seems deathly still,