Chapter 52:

“'right away', as old Arizona Bill would have said when I was first taken.” changed to “'right away', as old Arizona Bill would have said, when I was first taken.”

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Chapter headings have been changed from Roman to Arabic numerals, for ease of use.

Due to the limitations of ASCII, the British “Pounds” symbol, a crossed L, where it comes before a figure, has been replaced by “Pound(s)” after the figure(s). When this substitution has been made, the word “Pound” is always capitalised. Examples: “L1” is “1 Pound”; “L6 or L8” is “6 or 8 Pounds”.

This text was transcribed from the Second Edition, which was first printed in June of 1889.

A few foreign words had accents in the original edition. The most common was “depo^t”, which has since become standardized in English as “depot”. The others are “ame damnee” for “ame damne\e”; “cause celebre” for “cause ce/le\bre”; and “vis-a-vis” for “vis-a\-vis”. In the advertisements listed below, “Athenaeum” was originally “Athen(ae)um”.

From the original advertisements:

POPULAR NOVELS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

THE MINER'S RIGHT. A Tale of the Australian Gold-Fields.

Athenaeum--“The picture is unquestionably interesting, thanks to the very detail and fidelity which tend to qualify its attractiveness for those who like excitement and incident before anything else.”

World--“Full of good passages, passages abounding in vivacity, in the colour and play of life.... The pith of the book lies in its singularly fresh and vivid pictures of the humours of the gold-fields,--tragic humours enough they are, too, here and again....”

Manchester Examiner--“The characters are sketched with real life and picturesqueness. Mr. Boldrewood accomplishes the very difficult feat of enabling his readers not only to understand the bewildering complexities of mining law, but to be interested in the situations which arise out of their operation, while his fund of incident seems to be large enough to meet all the demands made upon it. Indeed, the book is lively and readable from first to last.”

THE SQUATTER'S DREAM.

Saturday Review--“It is not often that stories of colonial life are so interesting as Mr. Boldrewood's 'Squatter's Dream'. There is enough story in the book to give connected interest to the various incidents, and these are all told with considerable spirit and at times picturesqueness.”

Field--“The details are filled in by a hand evidently well conversant with his subject, and everything is 'ben trovato', if not actually true. A perusal of these cheerfully-written pages will probably give a better idea of realities of Australian life than could be obtained from many more pretentious works.”

A SYDNEY-SIDE SAXON.

Glasgow Herald--“The interest never flags, and altogether 'A Sydney-Side Saxon' is a really refreshing book.”

Anti-Jacobin--“Thoroughly well worth reading.... A clever book, admirably written.... Brisk in incident, truthful and lifelike in character.... Beyond and above all it has that stimulating hygienic quality, that cheerful, unconscious healthfulness, which makes a story like 'Robinson Crusoe', or 'The Vicar of Wakefield', so unspeakably refreshing after a course of even good contemporary fiction.”

A COLONIAL REFORMER.

Athenaeum--“A series of natural and entertaining pictures of Australian life, which are, above all things, readable.”

Glasgow Herald--“One of the most interesting books about Australia we have ever read.”

Saturday Review--“Mr. Boldrewood can tell what he knows with great point and vigour, and there is no better reading than the adventurous parts of his books.”