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" After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits. "
Lost
Break
Father
" A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. "
Cost
Cup
Glass
" As we grew to love South Australia, we felt that we were in an expanding society, still feeling the bond to the motherland, but eager to develop a perfect society, in the land of our adoption. "
Perfect
Bond
Feeling
" Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. "
Way
Habits
Men
" Even before the discovery of copper South Australia had turned the corner. "
Australia
Before
Corner
" I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. "
Age
Woman
Teacher
" I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. "
Value
History
Roads
" I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both. "
Life
Two
Only
" I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in. "
Place
Dearest
Had
" I look back to a happy childhood. "
Look
Happy
Childhood
" I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family. "
Think
Up
Family
" My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county. "
Brothers
County
Parish
" My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire. "
Fire
Pamphlet
Did
" My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society. "
Society
Return
Me
" Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible. "
Impossible
History
Community
" 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. "
Children
Young
Hands
" 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. "
Family
Australia
Mother
" South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. "
First
Australia
Community
" The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. "
London
Sound
Principles
" The Town Clerkship, however, was the means of giving me a lesson in electoral methods. "
Me
Giving
Lesson
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