# On Our Selection

Fourth edition; first published in 1899
ON OUR SELECTION
First edition, 8000 copies, November, 1899.
Reprinted, 8750 copies, April, 1901.
Reprinted, 5000 copies, August, 1902.
Reprinted, 8450 copies, August, 1903.
On Our Selection.
Written by
Arthur H. Davis
("Steele Rudd")
Illustrated from Drawings by A. J. Fischer,
A. H. Fullwood, G. W. Lambert,
Fred Leist, F. P. Mahony,
and Alf. Vincent
for Australia
Published at Sydney by the Bulletin Newspaper
Co., Ltd. Mcmiii.
The contents of this book were originally published in The Bulletin.
PIONEERS OF AUSTRALIA!
To You "Who Gave Our Country Birth;"
to the memory of You
whose names, whose giant enterprise, whose deeds of
fortitude and daring
were never engraved on tablet or tombstone;
to You who strove through the silences of the Bush-lands
and made them ours;
to You who delved and toiled in loneliness through
the years that have faded away;
to You who have no place in the history of our Country
so far as it is yet written;
to You who have done MOST for this Land;
to You for whom few, in the march of settlement, in the turmoil
of busy city life, now appear to care;
and to you particularly,
GOOD OLD DAD,
This Book is most affectionately dedicated.
"STEELE RUDD."
CONTENTS.
* PAGE
* Chapter I.
* STARTING THE SELECTION-          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 1
* Chapter II.
* OUR FIRST HARVEST -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 8
* Chapter III.
* BEFORE WE GOT THE DEEDS -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 14
* Chapter IV.
* WHEN THE WOLF WAS AT THE DOOR -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 23
* Chapter V.
* THE NIGHT WE WATCHED FOR WALLABIES -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 32
* Chapter VI.
* GOOD OLD BESS -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 38
Chapter VII.
Chapter VIII.
Chapter IX.
Chapter X.
Chapter XI.
Chapter XII.
Chapter XIII.
Chapter XIV.
Chapter XV.
* Chapter XVI.
* WHEN JOE WAS IN CHARGE -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 139
* Chapter XVII.
* DAD'S "FORTUNE" -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 153
* Chapter XVIII.
* WE EMBARK IN THE BEAR INDUSTRY -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 160
Chapter XIX.
Chapter XX.
* Chapter XXI.
* THE PARSON AND THE SCONE -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 187
* Chapter XXII.
* CALLAGHAN'S COLT -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 192
* Chapter XXIII.
* THE AGRICULTURAL REPORTER -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 200
* Chapter XXIV.
* A LADY AT SHINGLE HUT -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 208
* Chapter XXV.
* THE MAN WITH THE BEAR-SKIN CAP -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 216
* Chapter XXVI.
* ONE CHRISTMAS -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -          -
* 222
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