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WANTED—Stuff, anyhow, for the last chapter.
If The Age, always and foremost in the cause of the digger, never mind his language or colour; if The Argus would drop the appending "a foreigner" to my name, and extend even unto me the old motto "fair-play;" if The Herald would set up the pedestal for me whom it has erected as a "Monument of Gratitude;" I say, if the gentlemen Editors of the Melbourne Press, on the score of my being an old Collaborateur of the European Press, would for once give a pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether, to drag out of the Toorak small-beer jug, the correspondence on the above matter between
1. Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.B.
2. W. C. Haines, C.S.
3. W. Foster Stalwell, A.G.
4. Mr Sturt, Police Magistrate
5. W. H. Archer, A.R.G.
6. Captain M'Mahon.
7. Police-inspector H. Foster,
8. Another whom I detest to name, and
9. Signor Carboni Raffaello, M.L.C. of Ballaarat.
it would astonish the natives, teach what emigration is, and I believe the colony at large be benefitted by it.
There are scores of cases similar to mine, and more important by far, becasue widows and orphans are concerned in them. Sunt tempora nostra!
Master Punch, do join the chorus; spirited little dear! won't you give a lift to Great-works? Spare not, young chip, or else, the jackasses in the Australian bush will breed as numerous as the locusts in the African desert.
It is not FEAR that makes me shake at chapters XCII. and XCIII. Good reader, to the last line of this book, my quill shall stick to my word as given in the first chapter. Hence, for the present, this is the LAST. Put by carefully the pipe, we may want it again: meanwhile, FAREWELL.
