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."