and Goldsmith's complete works, a school prize of my brother William's,
were thoroughly mastered, and the Waverley novels down to "Quentin
Durward" were well absorbed. I read in Chambers's Journal of daily
governesses getting a shilling an hour, and I told my friend, Mrs.
Haining, that I would go out for 6d. an hour. Although she disliked
that way of putting it, it was really on that basis that I had made my
beginning when I reached the age of 17. In the meantime I had taught my
younger sister Mary (afterwards Mrs. W. J. Wren) all I knew, and in the
columns of The South Australian I wrote an occasional letter or a few
verses. Through Mr. George Tinline we made the acquaintance of Mrs.
Samuel Stephens her brother, Thomas Hudson Beare, and his family, who
had all come out in the Duke of York, and lived six months on Kangaroo
Island before South Australia was proclaimed a British province. I have
been mixed up so much with this family that it is often supposed that
they were relatives, but it was not so. Samuel Stephens had died from
an accident two years after his marriage to a lady much older and much
richer than himself, and she was living on two acres in North Adelaide,
bought with her money at the first sale of city lands in 1837, and Mr.
Tinline boarded with her till his marriage. The nephews, and especially
the nieces, of the old lady interested me--Lucy, the eldest, a
handsome girl, was about two years younger than myself; Arabella, about
the age of my sister Mary; Elizabeth, the baby Beare, who was the first
white person to set foot on South Australian soil after the foundation
of the province, died from a burning accident when quite young. The
only survivor of that first family now is William L. Beare (84), held
in honour as one of our earliest pioneers. By a second marriage there
were nine more children. Several died young, but some still survive.

It was not till 1843 that I went as a daily governess at the rate of
6d. an hour, and gave two hours five days a week to the families of the