Long the quest, and ever thieving pass the pedlars o’er the hill

With the treasures in their bundles, but to leave us questing still.

Mystic fires horizons redden, but each crimson flash in turn

Only lights the empty places in the bracken and the fern;

So in after years I’ve proved it, spite of pedant, crank, and fool,

Very much the way I found it at the old bush school.

[4]	These names are often applied to the same bird; but Happy Jacks (alias Gray-crowned Babblers) are brown with white markings; Twelve Apostles (alias Apostle-Birds) are gray with brown wings. Peewees, in the next line, are of course Magpie Larks.

[5]	The essential kanat (possibly a corruption of gnat) is undersized, mischievous, useless and perky.

SIX BROWN BOXER HATS

The hawker with his tilted cart pulled up beside the fence,