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counter General Charles P. Stone by accident and get employment The Statue of Liberty Swept to sea by harbor ice Laying a corner-stone Meet an old foe General Winfield S. Hancock Lecture my superior officer I am appointed Con-

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appointment as consul-general arouses great indignation among Southern office-seekers Mr. Cleveland said he never would have appointed me had he known I was a "pirate" Torpedo, in the shape of a pamphlet, comes near blowing up my prospects Mr. Secretary Bayard gets angry Mr. Cleveland brushes the matter aside and wishes me bon voyage Get married and start for San Francisco Mr. Bayard recalls me to Washington

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Seventh- Day Adventists by telegram I sail for Australia indignant when Captain skips Saturday at the one hundred and eightieth meridian

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Sydney's beautiful harbor — The authorities compliment me by giving me a private compartment the journey to Melbourne and am surprised to find myself a prisoner therein — Beautiful Melbourne and suburbs — Henry Loch, the Governor of Victoria — My wife suddenly ennobled — Singular coincidence of meeting a gentleman who had been a passenger on a ship we had stopped on the high seas twenty-two years previously — for

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Wonderful Australian horsemanship

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CHAPTER LH Impecunious globe-trotters — Consular courts — Become skipper of a water-logged bark against my wishes — A captain claims a tuition in the culinary art — For obeying my dollar a day for

instructions

an Australian court mulcts

me

for five

hundred dol-

holding that despite my exequatur I am only a commercial Many agent Grocer's assistant gets quite a large fortune "Blacksupposed dead men live in the South Sea Islands birders" 438 lars,

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The Kangaroo hunting Australian hospitality Marriage customs Aborigines dingo Rabbits in myriads Black trackers Black swans No songbirds, but many curious birds The "laughing jackass" always gets a laugh . . when he tells a funny story The "Ornithoryncus". 445

Vast estates

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