I look back to a happy childhood.

The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods.

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me.

After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.