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

Our South Australian farmers left their holdings in the hands of their wives and children too young to take with them, but almost all of them returned to grow grain and produce to send to Victoria.

I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.

Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner.

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections.

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.

As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society in the land of our adoption.