Petunia again

“At Petunia” was received so kindly that I venture to offer these final sketches. The little township on the plains is now for me only a happy memory. Unlike their predecessors,...

“A little child toddled to the wicket gate and laid fat arms against it, and laboured, with impatient grunts, to push it open.... He gazed with his whole might at this little pe...

And the harvest is so scanty that Father Christmas will have to be very frugal if he is to come at all to the homes of some working men. Petunia looks very sad, bare and brown a...

Some years ago Foster Fraser tried to help us out as he whizzed through each capital. Thus he labelled Sydney “for pleasure,” Melbourne “for business,” and Adelaide “for culture...