The Confessions of a Beachcomber Scenes And Incidents in the Career of An Unpro
The Confessions of a Beachcomber Scenes And Incidents in the Career of An Unpro
E J Edmund James Banfield
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ice page 66. TROPICAL INDUSTRIES 67 to his life and actions. Another took to collecting birds' eggs ; another to the study of botany ; another to photo- graphy. Each wreathed, according to his predilections, a flowery band to bind him to the earth, finding that even the life of a settler may be filled with " sweet dreams, and health and quiet. " But the great majority seem to have taken to the scrap heap of Federal politics with such ardour that they clutch but the fag ends of the poetry of lif...e. Many become great readers and are knowing and knowledgeable. Those who drift away from country life are for the most part men who hustle after the coy damsel fortune by searching for minerals, and just as many who have succeeded in that arduous passion settle quietly on the land. Each may and does desire amendments to and amelioration in his lot. There is still left to all the healthy impulse of achievement, the desire for something better, the noble and inspiriting virtue of discontent. Rare is a deserted home.
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