Crossword-Solution: WARATAH 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Mactavish and from Wullie, dictated to and written by Bessie, said that she would be back soon; standing under the portico of the Post Office, surrounded by the flower sellers with their bunches of exuberant waratah, feathery wattle and sweet, sober-looking boronia, she let her mind travel back to Lashnagar and the acrid smoke of the green-wood fires, the pungency of the fish, the sharp tang of the salt winds pushed the heavy perfume of flowers aside.

She used to roll like the devil and was always said, with what justice I do not know, to be the sister ship to the _Waratah_ which foundered so mysteriously somewhere off the Natal coast with a very good chap, a M.F.H., Percy Brown, on board.

Her fairy story to-day had to do with the bold and handsome Waratah which ran mad in the bush behind her home, towards Middle Harbour.

CHAPTER V THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH An introduction to an Australian home--Off to a picnic--The wattle, the gum, the waratah--The joys of the forest.

That is exciting enough to take attention away even from the oysters, for the waratah, the handsomest wildflower of the world, is becoming rare around the cities.