LETTER THIRTY-TWO.
[Note by A.T.P.—The first portion of this letter is missing.]
… I think of them as the rural beauties of a country which my children will call foreign. Yes! henceforth the country of my children' shall be mine. Australia has afforded me a better home than my motherland, and I will love her with a patriot's love. With regard to my own individual prospects I am full of hope. I have had my troubles, as the old ladies say. When you think of my landing on the soil of this country with a wife and child, the one only three days old and the other in the delicate state of health of a mother at that time, and with only a few pence and without a home, you will think I must have had some difficulties to contend with since my arrival in Australia. And I have had my share of them in good earnest, and not the least of them I am grappling with at this
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