Chapter 1
_ CHAPTER ONE.
"Mind what you‘re doing! Come down directly, you young dog! Ah, I thought as much. There, doctor: a job for you."
It was on board the great steamer _Chusan_, outward bound from the port of London for Rockhampton, Moreton Bay, and Sydney, by the north route, with a heavy cargo of assorted goods such as are wanted in the far south Colonies, and some fifty passengers, for the most part returning from a visit to the Old Country.
"Visit" is a very elastic word--it may mean long or short. In Carey Cranford‘s case it was expressed by the former, for it had lasted ten years, during which he had been left by his father with one of his uncles in London, so that he might have the full advantage of an English education before joining his parents in their adopted land.
It had been a delightful voyage, with pleasant fellow-passengers and everything new and exciting, to the strong, well-grown, healthy lad, who had enjoyed the Mediterranean； revelled in the g

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