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MEMORIES OF MY LIFE
FROM MY EARLY DAYS IN SCOTLAND TILL
THE PRESENT DAY IN ADELAIDE
By Mrs. J. S. O. ALLEN
ADELAIDE
J. L. BONYTHON & CO., "THE ADVERTISER" OFFICE
King William Street
1906
DEDICATED
TO
THE LADIES OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.
In a sense I am no stranger to you. It may be asked why I should bringthe names of people and the incidents of my life into book-form.Loneliness is the principal cause. What would become of me if I couldnot recall past years. I have written something of the history of what Ihave lived through. Many times over I have promised to write a cookerybook from my colonial experience—I am talking about cookery all day. Itry to live on recollection, although occasionally it hurts me. Manywill discern in these pages some of the observations they have listenedto while I have been giving lessons on cookery. It has been habitual tome to allude to by-gone days and customs.
Mrs. J. S. O. ALLEN.
77 Tynte Street,
North Adelaide.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| My First Place | 1 |
| Life's Battle Begins | 3 |
| I Return Home | 7 |
| On the Coal Mines | 9 |
| I go to Glasgow | 13 |
| I Change my Occupation | 16 |
| The Country of Burns | 19 |
| I go to a New Place | 20 |
| I Leave Ayrshire | 25 |
| Dr. Dykes, Dr. Guthrie, and Dr. MacLeod | 27 |
| Another New Place | 32 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 34 |
| The Isle of Arran | 35 |