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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
My Birth and Breeding.-The Huntsman's Farm.-
French and English.-Accomplished and Useless
CHAPTER II.
My Adventures at Sea.-Sea Life and Studies.-
A Bit of Piracy.-A Chinese Fleet.-The Countess of
Mawley Pier.-The Mate and the Slaver.-Madame
Finot's Feather Flowers.-Sunday in Sydney.-Letters
of Introduction. - Colonial Bargains. A Squatter's
Life.
CHAPTER III.
Hunting a Wild Horse.-Bush Scenery.-Tracks of
the Wild Horse.-The Black Horse is away.-Down
the Mountain full speed.-Away along the Plain.-The
Black Horse is beat.-Young Australia.-Meeting an
old Friend.—A Feast after Hunting
CHAPTER IV.
A Prisoner's Story.-The Bible in the Desert.—
The Drunkard's Daughter.-Threshing-machine Riots.
-A Tyrant Squatter.-The Steps to Crime.-Despair
and Drink
CHAPTER V.
Two-handed Dick.-Stockmen reading "Ivanhoe."
-A Charge from a Bull.-A Death Struggle.-The
Hut-keeper's Welcome.-An Exploring Adventure.—
"A Hundred Black Devils."-Escape with eighteen
Wounds
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35
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CHAPTER VI.
Bushrangers and Wild Blacks. - Paginton falls
among Thieves.-The use of a kind Character.- Bail
up, or I'll blow out your Brains.-A Death Struggle . 86
CHAPTER VII.
A
Father Gabriel.-The Ride to the Valley.-A Pic-
ture of the Patrairch.-Little Polly plays the Fiddle.
-A Swarm of Bush Bees.-Why Gabriel emigrated.
A Poaching Adventure. - A Farmer's Ruin.
Letter from "Furrin Parts."-Birkenshaw's Story.-
Breaking up an old Home.-Founding a new Home.-
The Winners and the Losers
CHAPTER VIII.
Christmas Day in the Bush.-A Devonshire Emi-
grant.-A Dinner Dialogue.-A Bounty Ship at Ply-
mouth. The Great Man of Duxmoor.-The Fate of
Little Freeholders.-Brand marries the Widow's Daugh-
ter. Swing-Fires. The Departure for "Furrin
Parts."-The Lower Deck of an Emigrant Ship.-
The Parish Uniform.-John Brand speaks out.-Mrs.
Chisholm meets John.-Nursing a Baby
CHAPTER IX.
Stories round a Bush Hearth.-False and Fair.-
Julia Splashton's Letter.-Night Ride in a Mail Phae-
ton.-Oakdale Manor-house in Winter.-Laura Giggle
and the White Calf.—Skating on the Lake.-Coursing
on the Moor.-A Hunting Morning.-Hark to Echo.-
Tally-ho! Away.-A Check.-Julia's First Leap
CHAPTER X.
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An Apology for Fox-hunting
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174
A Gallop for Life.-Crossing the Dee Sands at Sun-
rise. The brown Arab snorting like a Lion.-Crossing
at Sunset, the Ford filling fast.-The brown Horse
down.-Death's Panorama.-A Light.-I am saved
CHAPTER XII.
179
I visit England.-A Lady's Letter.- A Quiet Wed-
ding
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