Blue-gum

"No tree knows when his time will come," the big Blue-gum answered gravely.

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Blue-gum remained silent and miserable -- one through loneliness, the other through white-ants.

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The Blue-gum said that he didn't know; but he hoped not.

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House seemed to be twitching horribly; and it swayed the big Blue-gum this way and that till he appeared to be fighting for his very life.

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The only thing I am sorry for is that I couldn't get the big Blue-gum into the picture.

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"Oh, I have a nasty sharp pain in my side," said the Blue-gum.

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The Blue-gum was a very old tree -- over a hundred years old -- and he was proud of it, and often used to tell of the time, long ago, when blackfellows hunted 'possums in his branches.

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It was quite late next morning when the Blue-gum awoke.

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Blue-gum cheerfully, trying to change the subject.

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And when a certain little Tree-creeper -- a very wise bird -- came and had a long, serious talk with the Blue-gum, he became very much interested indeed and quite happy.

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