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    —Asss - ^ - Currency Creek, Adelaide, So...

    or to milk the cow was certain death . Butter in Adelaide rose to th two at shillings it was impossible and three to pence get per a fat pound beast , . and Of the course meat there was so are poor no

    butchers and this ' is shops how in we the bush , : every when man we kill must we divide be his the own beast butcher into , manage

    when four quarters they kill and we sell share three with to our them nei , wei ghbours ghing , who it and fetch pay it ing away the ; would

    think difference land , and . a B -would y quarter so doing think of , we it beef get does dreadful fresh not meat last to have oftener long so . much th I an dare you salt say meat in ,

    but Eng and I when assure you you you are in killing this hot , there very climate is we so soon much get about tired that of fresh it sickens in meat the ,

    into you bush . candles , but The I whole generall thus of the y boil inside see down there , head the is , feet and waste for feet even the , are oil thrown in , and the make bush away , the but fat it

    ; you cannot be avoided . When we are tired of salt meatwe shoot pigeons , rabbits ,

    sionall ducks , y geese a turkey , ( all very , wild beside of s course which , ) we each have , in our their own season poultry , and , occa and

    p for lenty Notwithstanding till of this new winter -laid eggs I the have and heat never bacon , this had . must a cold be a very been healthy husky climat in the e ,

    , throat , though lately we have had fcair months' incessant rain , and never could more work than out two of days doors clear at thing intervals within . During reach of the our flood swollen no

    the creek one colony was , washed and there away could , —indeed be ; every no , communication there was only for one a brid time ge ; left every in to

    p I get lace hop emp e was loyment all so will swampy , be therefore emp , peop loyed the le , could distress there not is has so even much been get for very into the gr the e poor at country , but man now to ,

    , do in Adelaide . _# & _** _#

    Currency Creek , Adelaide , South Australia , Augiist . _> 1851 .

    Dear Jane , We are very glad to see a letter John from you , but sadly to disappointed hear of his

    be to sister thin much ' s k misfortunes you better were off not , and as b a ehind wishes shepherd it . Harry in Australia could was very get out for sorry here althoug ; he h would many

    have a great deal to encounter at first , still poverty , sucli as is common in England is , I can assure you , unknown here . in Adelaide

    I do not think you would like a town life , particularly' , for up to by your all accounts knees in mud it is , a and wretched in summer place the ; in heat the and winter dust you are are

    intolerable . You must know we bush people know , as street litfcle there about the

    town as you do in England ; I have only seen one , nor

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    ON ASSISTED IMI & EATION O 329

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1860, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071860/page/41/