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] |
| CHAPTER XXVI. | [CHRISTMAS] |