CHAPTER XX.

A Caller--A Talk about Old Times--The Fox Hunt--An Accurate Judgment ofan Idiot--How We Passed the Custom Officers in Italy

CHAPTER XXI.

The "Weet-Weet"--Keeping down the Population--Victoria--Killing theAboriginals--Pioneer Days in Queensland--Material for a Drama--TheBush--Pudding with Arsenic Revenge--A Right Spirit but a Wrong Method--Death ofDonga Billy

CHAPTER XXII.

Continued Description of Aboriginals--Manly Qualities--DodgingBalls--Feats of Spring--Jumping--Where the Kangaroo Learned its Art 'WellDigging--Endurance--Surgery--Artistic Abilities--Fennimore Cooper's LastChance--Australian Slang

CHAPTER XXIII.

To Horsham (Colony of Victoria)--Description of Horsham--At theHotel--Pepper Tree-The Agricultural College, Forty Pupils--HighTemperature--Width of Road in Chains, Perches, etc.--The Bird with a ForgettableName--The Magpie and the Lady--Fruit Trees--Soils--Sheep Shearing--ToStawell--Gold Mining Country--$75,000 per Month Income and able to KeepHouse--Fine Grapes and Wine--The Dryest Community on Earth--The ThreeSisters--Gum Trees and Water

CHAPTER XXIV.

Road to Ballarat--The City--Great Gold Strike, 1851--Rush forAustralia--"Great Nuggets"--Taxation--Revolt and Victory--Peter Lalor and theEureka Stockade--"Pencil Mark"--Fine Statuary atBallarat--Po

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