But that's neither here nor there in what turned out a bad business.

Well, we all emigrated out here, and, after a while, my old dad bought a station on the Lower Leura--taken in he was, of course, over the deal, and not realising that it was unsettled country in those days.

So the whole family of us started up from the coast to it....

He drove my mother and my two sisters just grown up, and a woman servant--Marty--in a double buggy, and Jerry the bullock driver and me in the dray with him and taught me to drive bullocks.

There were stock-boys, two of them riding along side.
'It took us three and a half weeks, to reach the station, averaging about thirty miles a day and camping out each night.
'I'd like you to camp out in the Bush sometime, Lady Bridget, right away from everything--it'ud be an experience that 'ud live with you all your life--My word! It's like nothing else--lying straight under the Southern Cross and watching its pointers, and, one by one, the stars coming up above the gum trees--and the queer wild smell of the gums and the loneliness of it all--not a sound until the birds begin at dawn but the HOP-HOP of the Wallabies, and the funny noises of opossums, and the crying of the curlews and native dogs--dingoes we call 'em....