AROUND the RING
ag glass without < its beauty. As hoi is blowing, tho c
FROM THE HOUSE STEPS
"The distant mountains are a niisty_ grey while warning clouds linger overhead, mingled with the last rays of the unseen sun. Tho lagoon is as smooth even a ripple to spoil t eVen a gentle breeze ioconut leaves remain
perfectly still like soldiers lined up for inspection. Across the peaceful lagoon A. S&mbaii mart in a canoe glides Silently towards tile village- near our home. Sere and there, because it is nearly low tide, a piece of coral juts out of the
i\ater. Now a lautasi flong (rowihg. boat) is passing, tho rowers pulling in, measured time to tho beat of a, di'uin. The crickets' song and the dull thudi * ding of tho breakers dashing against the reflf. afro'-the only sounds to*.'break tho silence. In the village neartiyy laa* terns are being lighted while shadows lengthen. Darkness reigns as a; Scared flying-fox ■ s6ars through the sky. dverhead, looking for a tree on which tb alight.. The scene is becoming,shaded by tlieinists-of tho night." . • ' "AUTE" (10), Samda.- : ' :. ' .'. "}; ''*
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 20
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184AROUND the RING Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 20
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