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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."