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AN EMIGRANT'S LETTER.

(Fbom Miss Maetha Pottkb, Housimau>% Dear Susan, I take up my pen just to wri c Theio few lines, as the mail is a having to-day | Which 1 hope all are well down at Biddicum

Bight, -.•*•• At it leaves m« at present, I'm happy to say. Oh! Sukty, be euro you come out by next

For this is a sens ble tort of a place, No minus oat here dare« to scr*w or nip,

And going to terrier aint >nought » disgrace. Disgrace! I should think not j Why, Su«ao, my de«r, Domeitict in Adelaide meet with respect, We mot« in a v*ry iiipprior spear. And lfare if tlie r eighborbood isn't select. Why, only l»»t week a fine ludy came down And begeid rtrj hard tht I'd com* as her cook:

But, Suke, when nhe mentioned sh» lived out of town 'TwouU a. taken m hartist to piuter my look. Now, Susan, old girl, dou't you make a mistake, And slave along there t' otktr side of the hearth, - At soon as you can, sich hard labor for-ake, And come to a land where they value your worth. Bat master is waiting to take this to town, •o Sukey, good-by«—do come over the ; • waves; ; ', "Sot eve>ything here is turned just upside dowD, And servants are l«dies and missuses slaves. —Geofifrey Grabthorne, S. A Register.

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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1750, 12 August 1874, Page 3

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AN EMIGRANT'S LETTER. Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1750, 12 August 1874, Page 3

AN EMIGRANT'S LETTER. Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1750, 12 August 1874, Page 3

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