The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-10-08
A Romance of the Australian
Bush.

The Melbourne correspondent of the London
Tines tells the following ST nv - Returning 10
the township Of q Victorian watering place on Il
Sunday evening, after Il long stroll in the coun-
try, | heard C 'minS up behind me ~ Il trot about
thirty head OF cattle. | observed, - they APP
preached, that they were all milch cows, and that
q SORT ut gentleman in his shirt sleeves, and well
mounted, kept them tIgecher on the one side,
and u woman, also on horseback, was rounding
them up on the other eide. AS she %gallnped after
s1me errant animal. her habit gracefully flying
behind her, and her seat (as slIe jumped logs and
little creeks) cafe and assured from long practice,
she looked like Die Vernon turned ueeiul and
any ore would have pronounced her d lady. and
On elegant lady too, had she not been driving
cattle, which, TO my prejudiced eye, rather com
plicatrd her personal appearance with Il touch Of
Smithheld. The whole group swept by. and in Il
Ininut- or so were lost sight of in the bush.
d" Early on the next morning | was walking
through the little township before breakfast,
when I saw IL milk cart with the most modern
style of shining tin pals in it standing at a door,
4 man serving the milk, while IL woman sat in
the cart handling the reins. As they drove of |
had Il dim recollection of having seem them be
fore. but where or under what circumstances |
could not call To mind. | described to my old
Scotch landlord what | had seen. as above de-
scrihed. and 1T once he told me what he and all
his neighbors evidently regarded as one of the
most romantic little stories of which the neigh
bOrhood could b"a~t. The pair of cquestrians in
tlIC pLEl dtld Aht tdil III AlC AbIlH AhIL htIC. IL
seems. one and the same pair. When young and
poor they had married in England, despite the
opposition of friends. The gentleman had been
in the ravy the lady had been delicately nur-
turcd.
+" Soon after marriage they resolved to begin
the world afresh. L ey arrived in Victoria very
poor. Mr.. D.. the husband, nearly related
To a noble family in England, nevertheless. with
honorable strength of will. worked hard with his
hands, and his delicate young wife was a devoted
and self-dcnying partner in his hardshirs. He
put by Il little money, and fought a few head Of
stock. And now Mr.. d. declares that he is as
happy as the day Is long, and that lie would not
exchange his position for the command of the
best ship in her Majesty's navy. They have
three children, pronounced to he wonders of
pretty behavior and good training and the father
and mother (say the gnssips,) after nine years of
lovers than like man and wife. Together they
round up the cattle of an evening. and together
they serve the milk III tire muruiug. In tie
evening. after the kye' are in. sine snlaces herself
and little circle with the piano. and gives an
But il Is said that she is not altogether as con-
tented as her lord. Why said |. deeply inter-
ested in this little romance of real life. After
many questions and many answers, here is the
out come of the crOsSexaminatiun Of various
witnesses. At the bottom OF all the lady's rural
felicity is a something which poisnns it some
what-human pride. She IL often addressed as q
common milkwnman, when she knows she is not
Il Common milkwOman, and she shrinks from the
vulgar but extremely natural mistake"