I'll never smoke tobacco, It is a filthy weed— I'll never put it in my mouth,' Said little Bobby Reed.'For there is idle Jerry Jones, As lazy as a pi… - Randolph Bedford

At the age of five I had begun an association with Temperance Societies; which ended at the age of sixteen—when I discovered the goodness of beer.

Half way to Burwood there was a butcher’s shop, run by a Mrs Macnamara. She was a tall woman of great strength, working fiercely and living hard; a living testimonial to the forceful Colonial diet of beef and corn. She handled meataxe and saw as if they were toys. To see her chopping fore and hind quarters of beef fascinated me. I once heard her tell, without boastfulness, but in honest pride, that she was ‘doing six bodies a week’; which is a great tract and wilderness of meat.

The Governor was a little pink old gentleman; so soft in the skin that he seemed to be stuffed with moss.