The Squatter's Dream, A Story of Australien Life
By Rolf Boldrewood
Length12h 36m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "Jack Redgrave was a jolly, well-to-do young squatter, who, in the year 185—, had a very fair cattle station in one of the Australian colonies, upon which he lived in much comfort and reasonable possession of the minor luxuries of life. He had, in bush parlance, "taken it up" himself, when hardly more than a lad, had faced bad seasons, blacks, bush-fires, bushrangers, and bankers (these last he always said terrified him far more than the others), and had finally settled down into a somewhat too easy possession of a couple of thousand good cattle, a well-bred, rather fortunate stud, and a roomy, cool cottage with a broad verandah all covered with creepers. The climate in which his abode was situated was temperate, from latitude and proximity to the coast. It was cold in the winter, but many a ton of she-oak and box had burned away in the great stone chimney, before which Jack used to toast himself in the cold nights, after a long day's riding after cattle. He had plenty of books, for he did not altogether neglect what he called his mind, and he had time 2to read them, as of course he was not always out on the run, or away mustering, or doing a small—sometimes very small—bit of business at the country town, just forty miles off, or drafting or branding his cattle. He would work away manfully at all these avocations for a time, and then, the cattle being branded up, the business in the country town settled, the musters completed, and the stockmen gone home, he used to settle down for a week or two at home, and take it easy. Then he read whole forenoons, rather indiscriminately perhaps, but still to the general advantage of his intelligence. History, novels, voyages and travels, classics, science, natural history, political economy, languages—they all had their turn. He had an uncommonly good memory, so that no really well-educated prig could be certain that he would be found ignorant upon any given subject then before the company, as he was found to possess a fund of information when hard pressed."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Fantasy
Length12 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Squatter's Dream
15CHAPTER XIV.
2CHAPTER I.
16CHAPTER XV.
3CHAPTER II.
17CHAPTER XVI.
4CHAPTER III.
18CHAPTER XVII.
5CHAPTER IV.
19CHAPTER XVIII.
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6CHAPTER V.
20CHAPTER XIX.
7CHAPTER VI.
21CHAPTER XX.
8CHAPTER VII.
22CHAPTER XXI.
9CHAPTER VIII.
23CHAPTER XXII.
10CHAPTER IX.
24CHAPTER XXIII.
11CHAPTER X.
25CHAPTER XXIV.
12CHAPTER XI.
26CHAPTER XXV.
13CHAPTER XII.
27CHAPTER XXVI.
14CHAPTER XIII.
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