A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.

I look back to a happy childhood.

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

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.

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