CHAPTER XX. 



THE COLONIES AS A HOME. 



Winding up. Colonial life. Agitators. " Going home." End 



of the gallop. 



In the preceding chapters I have endeavoured to give 

 a brief account of how I passed over ten pleasant years 

 in Australia. I trust the many shortcomings this book 

 contains will be overlooked in the same kind and 

 friendly manner as they have been in other works I 

 have written. It has been my endeavour to write of 

 men and things as I found them, and from an ordinary 

 everyday view. 



For the Colonies as a home I can only write in 

 terms of the highest praise. The life would not suit 

 every one, but for a man who desires to live pretty 

 much as he likes, and not be bound down by conven- 

 tional forms, it is a thoroughly enjoyable existence. 



Once the taste for Colonial life has been acquired, 

 it grows and expands until it becomes part of a man^s 

 nature. 



