Excerpt from A Chequered Career, or Fifteen Years Experiences in Australia and New Zealand What unpacking and arranging of new posses sions What hanging up of newly framed prints, sent from town on purpose to adorn my room And then what a comparing of watches and divers treasures with the other new boys About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.