June 1959 School Magazine

Brisbane Girls' Grammar School Magazine

July, 1959

July, 195S

Brisbano Girls' Grammar School Magaz1ne

HUNTED It was high noon in the heart of the Leopolds as a tall, well built aboriginal stumbled past the sun-baked walls of the gap, and into the gorge below. He was Jerrabri, the notori o~s killer, and robber of outlying stations. Patrols had dogged h1s footsteps for days and he was now forced into the tribal refuge, a range of hills honeycombed by caves and passages where a hunted man might escape his pursuers if hard pressed. Selecting a suitable cave, he settled himself in a protected position and waited. A few minutes later, a patrol came riding dow:n the gorge. The trackers had cut his tracks and were working towards his hiding place. Gloatingly, Jerrabri raised his Winchester and fired at the foremost rider. To his disgust, the bullet missed its mark and, ricochetting off a boulder, it whined down the gorge. Instantly, the men leapt to cover and began a steady fire at the mouth of Jerrabri' s refuge. Half an hour later, Jerrabri's ammunition was a lmost ex- pended and he fired only occasionally. Suddenly, a chance bullet whistled into the cave and, glancing off a rock, it tore a gaping hole in his shoulder. Chewing his beard in agony, Jerrabri fired once more in to the sunlight a nd then crawled back into the dark passages. Knowing that the superstitious trackers would not venture inside and that the patrol men could not, he felt reasonably secure as he climbed the last tortuous path to the open air, and a ft er daubing wet clay on his wound, he confidently set out for his di stant hunting camp, leaving the baffled patrol to search the ranges in vain. -M. PAT2RSON, I!IB.

THE ARCHIBALD MEMORIAL, HYDE PARK, SYDNEY

FOUNTAINS, HYDE PARK, SYDNEY J. F. Archibald, when he died, left a sum of money for the erection of a bronze memorial to commemorate the association of France and Australia in World War I. This Archibald Mem- orial was erected in Hyde Park in Sydney. It is in the form of a fountain, one of the best works of sculpture of its kind in Australia. In the photograph the figure a t the top is Apollo who repre- sents the Arts . The' one on the left is Diana, the goddess of purity and the chase. In the centre is a young god of the fields and pastures, and on the right is Theseus vanquishing the Minotaur. In the background is St. Mary's Cathedral, one of the most beautiful pieces of Gothic architecture in Australia . -CLARE WILLIS, VIC. THE LEAF

Withered leaf thct has been b lown From the stem you called you own, Where a-re you going?-! cannot say. The storm broke down the gredt oak tree Which wc1s my strong but lone mainstay. The fickle winds from land and sea Have ~ode me follow in their train; Blown w here they will, (take no thought. From mount to va·le I have been brought, From the forest to the pla"in . I am going where the wind takes me, Without complaint or fear; I go where everything soon goes- Even the petals of the rose, And the laurel leaves grow sere. From a French poem by A. V. Arnault. 21

-C. YOUNG, VI A.

-M. VALLANCE.

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