University of North Dakota UND Scholarly Commons Settler Literature Archive Department of English 1894 Seven Little Australians Ethel Turner Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.und.edu/settler-literature Recommended Citation Turner, Ethel, "Seven Little Australians" (1894). Settler Literature Archive. 112. https://commons.und.edu/settler-literature/112 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of English at UND Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Settler Literature Archive by an authorized administrator of UND Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. SEVEN LITTLE " for a Everyone fetched some offering to lay at Judy's shrine keepsake." (Chapter V.) Seven Little Australians] 'J-ronli^'f SEVEN LITTLE AUSTRALIANS By ETHEL TURNER (MRS. CURLEWIS) Author of "The Family at Misrule," Th Little Larrikin," etc. ILLUSTRATED BY J. MACFARLANE WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO 1912 Co MY MOTHER. TR- too 5* TO MY READERS. MY Publishers have asked me to add a preface to this sixteenth edition of my first book. What is it I should say ? Suppose you knew a child not a well-behaved one a little by any means ; just rough everyday boy with tousled hair and ungrammatical tongue. And suppose this lad in some way introduced you to a wide circle of valued and delightful friends and set your feet in the path of a career that brought you, not only good fortune but many gratifications of an innocent vanity. The probabilities are that you would feel very kindly to such a youngster and would not investigate too closely his actual merits.