Adventures of a Clergyman's Wife
Mrs. STACY WADDY
This is the second of four talks on her adventures by Mrs. Waddy. She was a parson's daughter, a journalist in London in the late 'nineties, and went out to Australia in a sailing ship. She was married in 1901, and with her husband has worked in a number of parishes . a coal-mine parish bv the sea till 1905 ; an up-country parish (as big as many an English county) to the end of 1906; at the King's School, Parramatta, till 1916 ; Jerusalem from 1919 to 1925.
She savs she has spent her life avoiding adventures. Twice the ships she has travelled in have been wrecked on the voyage. An illness saved her from embarking on the ill-fated Egypt in 1022 Bush fires have blown the other way, floods gone down in the nick of time, and bandits gone home the day before she drove along the roads. But her experiences as a bride in New South Wales thirty-five years ago, living on the top of a coal-mine that was expected to blow up, then up-country in Australia during the war, followed by six years in Palestine, seem adventures enough for most people.