A River Rules My Life

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Welcome to the station, Missus -- Go and see Jack -- The Missus settles in -- You must have a cat -- Spring -- the home front -- Jimmy the one -- Station horses -- A Christmas carol -- Feeding the gang -- Visitors -- The Village smithy sits -- Cooks and cookaroos -- Autumn muster -- I hate winter -- The black year -- Old and new roads -- Scotch, Dutch or Colonial -- Over -- Change down -- Oodles of spare time -- Nearly a Widder -- Over the river.;"Mount Algidus Station occupies a mountain range between two ice rivers and lies in the very shadow of the Southern Alps. It was the author's home for 33 years. Published with the Mona Anderson estate, this new edition of an all-time Kiwi classic brings back to life the isolated world of the Wilberforce, regarded as some of the wildest, roughest farming land in New Zealand"--Back dust jacket. Welcome to the station, Missus -- Go and see Jack -- The Missus settles in -- You must have a cat -- Spring -- the home front -- Jimmy the one -- Station horses -- A Christmas carol -- Feeding the gang -- Visitors -- The Village smithy sits -- Cooks and cookaroos -- Autumn muster -- I hate winter -- The black year -- Old and new roads -- Scotch, Dutch or Colonial -- Over -- Change down -- Oodles of spare time -- Nearly a Widder -- Over the river.