Plain Living A Bush Idyll

Excerpt: Mr. Stamford was riding slowly, wearily homeward in the late autumnal twilight along the dusty track which led to the Windahgil station. The life of a pastoral tenant of the Crown in Australia is, for the most part, free, pleasant, and devoid of the cares which assail so mordantly the heart of modern man in cities. But striking exceptions to this rule are furnished periodically. “A dry se...