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Title: On Our Selection

Author: Steele Rudd

Posting Date: June 20, 2009 [EBook #3677]
Release Date: January, 2003
First Posted: July 16, 2001

Language: English

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On Our Selection

Steele Rudd (Arthur Hoey Davis)

PIONEERS OF AUSTRALIA!

To You "Who Gave Our Country Birth;"
to the memory of You
whose names, whose giant enterprise, whose deeds of
fortitude and daring
were never engraved on tablet or tombstone;
to You who strove through the silences of the Bush-lands
and made them ours;
to You who delved and toiled in loneliness through
the years that have faded away;
to You who have no place in the history of our Country
so far as it is yet written;
to You who have done MOST for this Land;
to You for whom few, in the march of settlement, in the turmoil
of busy city life, now appear to care;
and to you particularly,
GOOD OLD DAD,
This Book is most affectionately dedicated.

"STEELE RUDD."

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. STARTING THE SELECTION
CHAPTER II. OUR FIRST HARVEST
CHAPTER III. BEFORE WE GOT THE DEEDS
CHAPTER IV. WHEN THE WOLF WAS AT THE DOOR
CHAPTER V. THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES
CHAPTER VI. GOOD OLD BESS
CHAPTER VII. CRANKY JACK
CHAPTER VIII. A KANGAROO HUNT FROM SHINGLE HUT
CHAPTER IX. DAVE'S SNAKEBITE
CHAPTER X. DAD AND THE DONOVANS
CHAPTER XI. A SPLENDID YEAR FOR CORN
CHAPTER XII. KATE'S WEDDING
CHAPTER XIII. THE SUMMER OLD BOB DIED
CHAPTER XIV. WHEN DAN CAME HOME
CHAPTER XV. OUR CIRCUS
CHAPTER XVI. WHEN JOE WAS IN CHARGE
CHAPTER XVII. DAD'S "FORTUNE"
CHAPTER XVIII. WE EMBARK IN THE BEAR INDUSTRY
CHAPTER XIX. NELL AND NED
CHAPTER XX THE COW WE BOUGHT
CHAPTER XXI. THE PARSON AND THE SCONE
CHAPTER XXII. CALLAGHAN'S COLT
CHAPTER XXIII. THE AGRICULTURAL REPORTER
CHAPTER XXIV. A LADY AT SHINGLE HUT
CHAPTER XXV. THE MAN WITH THE BEAR-SKIN CAP
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