"OUTBACK WELCOME!" HOODIE

This ruggedly fit, out back man, tramping through the Bush has his "billy" for boiling water for his 'cuppa' tea. In his bag he might have bread, jam, maybe bacon, and, of course, a rolled bundle of tea leaves! He's getting nice a "Bush Welcome" from a fine white cockatoo with a yellow crest. Some very beautiful parrots flash through the Australian forest. It would not be possible to tell of all of them. Back in the pioneering 1800 hundreds, the wildest and loneliest part of the continent was traversed by a telegraph line, which brings the European cable-messages from Port Darwin, on the north coast, to Adelaide, in the south. Men lost in the Bush near to that line might make for its route and cut the wire. That causes an interruption on the line ; a line-repairer is sent out from the nearest repairing -station, and finds the lost man camped near the break. Sometimes he is too late, and finds him dead !