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Rolf Boldrewood. Babes in the Bush
Babes in the Bush
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I ‘FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW’
CHAPTER II. THE FIRST CAMP
CHAPTER III. THE NEW HOME
CHAPTER IV. MR HENRY O’DESMOND OF BADAJOS
CHAPTER V ‘CALLED ON BY THE COUNTY’
CHAPTER VI. AN AUSTRALIAN YEOMAN
CHAPTER VII. TOM GLENDINNING, STOCK-RIDER
CHAPTER VIII. MR. WILLIAM ROCKLEY OF YASS
CHAPTER IX. HUBERT WARLEIGH, YR., OF WARBROK
CHAPTER X. A PROVINCIAL CARNIVAL
CHAPTER XI. MR. BOB CLARKE SCHOOLS KING OF THE VALLEY
CHAPTER XII. STEEPLECHASE DAY
CHAPTER XIII. MISS VERA FANE OF BLACK MOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XIV. THE DUEL
CHAPTER XV. THE LIFE STORY OF TOM GLENDINNING
CHAPTER XVI ‘SO WE’LL ALL GO A-HUNTING TO-DAY’
CHAPTER XVII. THE FIRST MEET OF THE LAKE WILLIAM HUNT CLUB
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MAJOR DISCOVERS HIS RELATIVE
CHAPTER XIX. BLACK THURSDAY
CHAPTER XX. AN UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER XXI. A GREEN HAND
CHAPTER XXII. INJUN SIGN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE BATTLE OF ROCKY CREEK
CHAPTER XXIV. GYP’S LAND
CHAPTER XXV. BOB CLARKE ONCE MORE WINS ON THE POST
CHAPTER XXVI. THE RETURN FROM PALESTINE
CHAPTER XXVII. THE DUEL IN THE SNOW
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Rolf Boldrewood
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Backed up by his trusty Andrew, with his admirable wife, he felt as if he could have faced all ordinary colonial perils. While under Jeanie Cargill’s care, his wife and daughters might have defied the ills of any climate, and risked the absence of the whole College of Physicians.
Andrew Cargill was one of those individuals of strongly marked idiosyncrasy, a majority of whom appear to have been placed, by some mysterious arrangement of nature, on the north side of the Tweed. Originally the under-gardener at The Chase, he had risen slowly but irresistibly through the gradations of upper-gardener and under-bailiff to the limited order of land-steward required by a moderate property. He had been a newly-married man when he formed the resolution of testing the high wages of the Southron lairds. His family, as also his rate of wages, had increased. His expenses he had uniformly restricted, with the thoroughness of his economical forefathers. He despised all wasteful ways. He managed his master’s affairs, as committed to his charge, with more than the rigorous exactitude he was wont to apply to his own. Gaining authority, by the steady pressure of unrelaxing forecast habit of life, he was permitted a certain license as to advice and implied rebuke. Had Andrew Cargill been permitted to exercise the same control over the extra-rural affairs that he was wont to use over the farm-servants and the plough-teams, the tenants and the trespassers, the crops and the orchards, the under-gardeners and the pineries, no failure, financial or otherwise, would have occurred at The Chase.
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