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Page 39 - I expected," said Sir George Gipps, when relating the story to an English friend, " to have seen an old lady in a white cap and spectacles, who would have talked to me about my soul. I was amazed when my aide introduced a handsome, stately young woman who proceeded to reason the question as if she thought her reason and experience too, worth as much as mine.
Page 182 - We pledge ourselves as Christian fathers and heads of families to exercise a parental control and guardianship over all orphans and friendless females proceeding with the family groups.
Page 65 - Could employment and protection be found for boys and girls from seven to fourteen years of age ? " 5th. Have you had opportunities of observing if the young women can save any part of their wages? for they are generally of opinion that nothing can be saved in the country, every article of wearing apparel being so much dearer than in town. " 6th. What would be the cheapest and best way of conveying the young women to your district? " I have to observe that the servants will be classed according to...
Page 3 - My first attempt at colonisation was carried on in a wash-hand basin, before I was seven years old. I made boats of broad beans; expended all my money in touchwood dolls; removed families, located them in the bed-quilt, and sent the boats, filled with wheat, back to their friends, of which I kept a store in a thimble case.
Page 41 - I cut it into slices, placed the whole in the middle of the room, put a dish of water convenient, and with a light by my side, I kept my seat on the bed, reading 'Abercrombie...
Page 39 - I had expected," he afterward said, " to have seen an old lady in white cap and spectacles, who would have talked to me about my soul. I was amazed when my aide introduced a handsome stately young woman, who proceeded to reason the question, as if she thought her reason and experience worth as much as mine.
Page 115 - ... people. For all the clergy you can despatch, all the schoolmasters you can appoint, all the churches you can build, and all the books you can export, will never do much good without what a gentleman in that Colony very appropriately called 'God's police...
Page 65 - I require regarding your district and any suggestions you may think useful will be considered a favour. 1st. Whether girls who at home have merely been accustomed to milk cows, wash and the common household work about a farm would readily get places? At what wages? and how many do you think would in the course of the next two years be required? 2nd. Good servants, such as housemaids and cooks — the rate of wages and the probable number required for the same period? 3rd. Married couples with small...
Page 101 - There was something in the character of this honest bushman to admire; he had gained his freedom, sent home money to his parents, and, during a long and tedious illness of twenty months, he had tended his sick wife with patient care. Who would not get up an hour earlier to serve such a man? — I did, for I knew that early in the morning is the best time to choose a wife. I went first into the governess-room — all asleep. I unlocked the Home-door — some dressed, others half-dressed, some too...
Page 97 - I would like to tell you my plan — 'Do you see,' says I, 'if any gal would keep a man at home, it would be the creature I saw this morning: now.' says I, 'tho' Jack's not taken to drink, yet he's uncommonly fond of company, and is for going to every horse-race he hears of; and I expect, some time, he'll make a very foolish match, wi' some one more ignorant than he is: yet, ma'am, tho' he can neither read or write, he's uncommonly cute.