My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.
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.
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
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.