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Rolf Boldrewood
The Last Chance: A Tale of the Golden West
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4066338072771
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[ 464 ] UNIFORM EDITION OF THE WORKS OF RUDYARD KIPLING.
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BY
ROLF BOLDREWOOD
AUTHOR OF
‘ROBBERY UNDER ARMS,’ ‘THE MINER’S RIGHT,’ ‘THE SQUATTER’S DREAM.’
‘A COLONIAL REFORMER,’ ETC.
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1905
All rights reserved
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ssss1CHAPTER I
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As a Commissioner of Goldfields, and Police Magistrate, in New South Wales, it is hardly necessary to say that Arnold Banneret’s pay was not conspicuously in advance of the necessaries of life. Necessaries which may be thus catalogued: a couple of decent ride-and-drive horses, a light, much-enduring buggy, clothes and books, boots and shoes, bread and butter, for half-a-dozen growing boys and girls—with an occasional trip to the seaside, and a regularly recurring doctor’s bill; while the Rev. Mr.Wilson’s quarterly accounts for the eldest boy’s board and tuition had also a knack of turning up inconveniently soon, as it appeared to paterfamilias, after his departure to school.