Wanted-A Wife.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4844, 19 July 1884, Page 1

Wanted-A Wife.

When travelling, some yeaihi agdi VrithTa large party of emigrants—while they were sleeping in camp'—as Mra Chisholm entirely depeuded,upon l]^ settjera (or : fojod for her party, she was to be seen at; the dim break of day iti^Her gi^; going about to collect from the sfettlera fpod for the breakfasting of her partyi;jf; /^: * On one occasion, just as she' came to a solitary part of tne road, hear a ralley, she heard a man shouting to her "Stop, stop l" A stout, rough btishman,clearing' a few bushes at a. leap, placed his hand on* the horse's head; and said " Are.yqa J^ws Chisholm ?" /"Yes ; what ddyou wanit P if| "Wantr-want—why, what jeTerymart-fe like me wants wlton he sees Mrs Chisholm. Come now, do look up that hill, and see that nice cottage and 4dabresunder citop; and.lhare in it twenty haras and flitches of bacon/ and a bf; tea^ aipd;ta bag r of sugar; the land it paid: for, and Uhe three cows;:'; ob, it would do you good to see the cows ; ■"■•• and' then pulling out a roll of papers, continued--"See; what a character I ha?e been presented with from the magistrate in charge of tbe" T district;: and ;here, maVm» ,at this roll .of notesrr- these' are the thinigsO 16:; hasten the matter^and get otm difficult i ties.^with the clergymaD. ponaenow, Mrs:; Chisholm, do be a mother to me, and gire me > wife;; the'simleof a woman has nerer .welcomed me- home after a hard day's work. hayej pityxonme—- • you don't mean to say no; you'll ioierer be so cruel as to say no? It makei a man's heart light to look at your %ainpiliJSpw f ' you don't mean to say yen haTe not got a nice-girl from; Tipperaryi; Iferer 'inindft the breakfast; T could keep the whole party for a week; -rand Wh^i pisacfr of^ mind it would be to you to know what a kind busband I shall make one of ''jouiM girls.'^ - <C^:rs- !^tf:?}s.;m-;S> •■' "I,t was upon the principle of family colonisation,"^ says I^lrs Chisholm, " and 2 actuated by such \ feelings, that I carried out my matrimonial excursions in the Australian bush. I at times; took ay number of single young females with me, in company with emigrant families, but then I allowed no matrimonial engagement .to bIS made on the way; at the same time; I took care to^place the young women in situations;^from which they^ might, with that consideration due to the feelings of woman, enter with propriety and respectability into the matrimonial ■atatei"^'.«>:-•.:■■.';•.r..^:.:C:; t ;:-jJ^ ./^.-v^^*•;.■•■.•■•<<■ ■..'■;;■,:.,-.>;.•.,;-.■■■*