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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