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"Shepherd, what's love? I pray thee tell. ' 'It is that fountain and that well Where pleasure and repentance dwell; It is perhaps that sauncing bell That tolls us all to heaven or hell, And this is love as I heard tell. " -- Sir Walter Raleigh.
The Australian Bush is pre-eminently a charnel-house of human lives, and therefore of the affections. Innumerable histories, neatly folded up and hidden away in the by-places of the great island continent, labelled _Not wanted till the Judgment Day_, will prove this indisputably. When Gabriel's trump shall call the sleepers from their resting-places in the shadows of the frowning mountains, in the long, grey gullies, and from the deserts and hopeless open plains, Australia's Bush contingent will be among the saddest and most miserable to face the Judgment Throne. "Mr. Aristocrat" will be there, and his case alone will be worth hearing.