IN TUNE WITH SPRING
The Express and Telegraph (Adelaide), 12 June 1911
IN TUNE WITH SPRING. Sweet are the sounds of spring, declare the poets. Possibly—to them. But they were not sweet to Mr. Snooker by a long chalk. The early birds awakened him with their incessant warbling; the children, shouting and heavy-hoofed, rose soon afterwards, and from seven o’clock onwards through the open windows, came the pounding strains of little Elsie practising next door.