id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 57471 Hulme, E. (Edward) A Settler's 35 Years' Experience in Victoria, Australia And how £6 8s. became £8,000 .txt text/plain 16015 910 80 When living in the "Old Land," over 35 years since, I belonged to a at departing from the good "Old Land." Hitherto, we had borne up well wind and dust storm on the day we landed, and the place looked very Home"--about a mile and a quarter from the landing place, leaving this new and good land, hoped to be known simply as a christian, and "Wesleyan home." On the second day after landing I got work, digging purchased land some thirty miles from the diggings, and started About this time (1865) the Government passed a new Land Act, opening So myself and two eldest sons started to make a home on the land. small wages, but at the same time he was getting good experience with for nearly 25 years on the farm up to this time, 1891. Of course, to get this good land requires some capital, but the ./cache/57471.txt ./txt/57471.txt