{"product_id":"2940013599284","title":"MISSING FRIENDS","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                               PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    INTRODUCTORY                                                  v\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAP.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       I. MY FIRST EXPERIENCES ON LEAVING HOME                    3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      II. ON THE EMIGRANT SHIP--THE JOURNEY TO QUEENSLAND        19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     III. MY ARRIVAL IN QUEENSLAND                               43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IV. GAINING COLONIAL EXPERIENCE                            73\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       V. TOWNSVILLE: MORE COLONIAL EXPERIENCES                 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VI. ON THE HERBERT RIVER                                  131\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VII. LEAVING THE HERBERT--RAVENSWOOD                       161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VIII. SHANTY-KEEPING, PROSPECTING, THORKILL'S DEATH         185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      IX. GOING TO THE PALMER                                   211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       X. RETURNING FROM THE PALMER                             231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XI. A LOVE STORY                                          259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XII. BRISBANE--TRAVELS IN THE \"NEVER NEVER\" LAND           271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XIII. THE END                                               315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (1) A SWAGSMAN                                   _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (2) LANDING OF EMIGRANTS                      _To face page_ 55\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (3) AN ALLIGATOR POOL                            \"     \"    145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (4) THE BAKER'S CART                             \"     \"    190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (5) BREAKFAST IN THE GOLD FIELDS                 \"     \"    198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    (6) ROCKHAMPTON                                  \"     \"    232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY FIRST EXPERIENCES ON LEAVING HOME.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving left Copenhagen in the way just described and arrived in\u003cbr\u003eHamburg, my first care was to get work, which I fortunately obtained\u003cbr\u003ethe next day. The place I worked in was a large building or series of\u003cbr\u003ebuildings, four or five stories high, with cabinet-makers' shops from\u003cbr\u003ethe cellars to the loft. We had to be at work at six o'clock in the\u003cbr\u003emorning, and to keep on till eight o'clock at night. Even on Sundays we\u003cbr\u003eworked from six o'clock to dinner-time. Some would keep on till it was\u003cbr\u003edark on Sunday evening, and content themselves with knocking off early,\u003cbr\u003eas they called it. And such work! Everybody would work as if the house\u003cbr\u003ewere on fire. It was all piecework. The man who stood next myself had\u003cbr\u003emade veneered chests of drawers for thirty years, and never had made\u003cbr\u003eanything else. He would turn out two veneered chests of drawers in a\u003cbr\u003eweek, and the work was faultless. These chests would, I am sure, sell\u003cbr\u003ereadily in Brisbane for from twelve to fifteen pounds each. He earned\u003cbr\u003eabout nine Prussian thalers per week. On the other side of me stood a\u003cbr\u003eman who made German secretaires. There were nine or ten men in the shop.\u003cbr\u003eThe master was working too. He seemed just as poor as the men. Whenever\u003cbr\u003ework was finished, some furniture dealer would come round and buy it.\u003cbr\u003eThe men seemed all more or less askew in their bodies with overwork. If\u003cbr\u003eever they had an ambition in their lives, it was to instil a proper\u003cbr\u003esense of respect into the two apprentices. I did pity these two boys.\u003cbr\u003eThey received their board and lodging from the master, but they could, I\u003cbr\u003eam sure, easily have made one meal out of their four daily allowances.\u003cbr\u003eThey slept in a corner of the shop. They had, of course, to be at work\u003cbr\u003eat six o'clock in the morning the same as the men, but while we had half\u003cbr\u003ean hour for breakfast and \"vesperkost,\" they were supposed to eat and\u003cbr\u003ework at the same time. After work-hours at night they had to carry all\u003cbr\u003ethe shavings out of the shop to the loft above, from which they were\u003cbr\u003eoccasionally removed; then they had tea, and finally, if they liked,\u003cbr\u003ethey were allowed to work a couple of hours for themselves. They would\u003cbr\u003eget odd pieces of veneer and wood and make a workbox. When it was\u003cbr\u003efinished, they would one evening run round among the furnishers from\u003cbr\u003edoor to door to sell it. The dealer would know that the materials were\u003cbr\u003enot paid for, and of course he did not pay them. A shilling or less is\u003cbr\u003ethe price a dealer in Hamburg pays for one of those beautiful workboxes\u003cbr\u003ewhich are sold all over the world. I wonder how often the buyers of\u003cbr\u003ethese boxes think of the lean, ragged youth who has stood late in the\u003cbr\u003enight and made it, most often perhaps to buy an extra morsel of bread\u003cbr\u003efrom the proceeds--because, as a matter of fact, that was what these two\u003cbr\u003eboys used to do. The master was accustomed to beat them daily, and if he\u003cbr\u003ewas at any time thought too sparing with the rod, and thereby neglecting\u003cbr\u003etheir education, the men would themselves beat the lads.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145756229872,"sku":"2940013599284","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013599284_p0.jpg?v=1763582855","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013599284","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}