"Solitude and serpents, torrid heat and work galore.
Await the folks who love them on Queens-Jand's'sunny shore." been oars parte, and n grand consti So wrote a yourg nian who, with a light tio, came out from Englind to make fortune, but instead returned to the land of his birth a year Liter with a light pare, a heavy heart, and debiiitatet liver, This young man's experiences were like those ut hundreds of others, but his method of ex: pressing them is different. We city-bred Golonisis who resolve to try our fortunes the lind do not generally fare better than people used to the invigorating breezes of green, temperate old En; Certainly Mrs. F, Summers did not." This lady, who now resides at No. 1, Quay Street, Ultimo, N.S.W., is a native of Sydney, and the mother of live fine child-reo. Her pioneering record in Queens-lind, and puticularly the effect upon her health of the hardships she endured, is very interesting, Writing on November 12: h, 1901, Mrs. Summers says:—'In 1807 iny husband determined to try his luck upon the land. He took selection near Been-leigh, Queensland, With our three little
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