The Squatter's Dream, A Story of Australien Life

Excerpt: Jack Redgrave was a jolly, well-to-do young squatter, who, in the year 185—, had a very fair cattle station in one of the Australian colonies, upon which he lived in much comfort and reasonable possession of the minor luxuries of life. He had, in bush parlance, “taken it up' himself, when hardly more than a lad, had faced bad seasons, blacks, bush-fires, bushrangers, and bankers (these la...