On Our Selection

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An Excerpt from the book-Chapter I.Starting the Selection.It's twenty years ago now since we settled on the Creek. Twenty years!I remember well the day we came from Stanthorpe, on Jerome'sdray--eight of us, and all the things--beds, tubs, a bucket, the twocedar chairs with the pine bottoms and backs that Dad put in them, somepint-pots and old Crib. It was a scorching hot day, too--talk aboutthirst! At every creek we came to we drank till it stopped running.Dad did n't travel up with he had gone some months before, to putup the house and dig the waterhole. It was a slabbed house, withshingled r...