My brothers went to the parish school, one of the best in the county.
From Catherine Helen Spence
I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.
I look back to a happy childhood.
I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in.
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.
I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times.
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.
After the break up of the municipality and the loss of his income my father lost health and spirits.
A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
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