twenty-first and Winter on June the twenty-first.

    The Fauna of Australia, as if determined not to be outdone in eccentricity by the Seasons, is represented by the Ornithorynchus Paradoxus, which Peter Simple has described in the following lines

    My child, the Duck-billed Platypus

    A sad example sets for us.

    From him we learn how indecision

    Of character provokes derision.

    This vacillating beast, you see,

    Could not decide which he would be—

    Fish, flesh or fowl—and chose all three.

    The scientists were sorely vexed,

    To classify him so perplexed

    Their brains that they with rage at bay

    Called him a horrid name one day,

    A name that baffles, frights and shocks us

    Ornithorynchus Paradoxus.

    The inhabitants of Australia are the most Moral and Patriotic people in the World, and their army is second to none in bravery and won the World War.

     CHINA

    China is known as the Flowery Kingdom. It is the most exclusive flower-garden in the world, and is surrounded by a high wall.

    The only Flower that succeeds in climbing the high wall is the little flower of Pekoe and her sisters who leave their Porcelain Paradise to cheer without inebriating the dull people of the outside world.

    

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