Welcome to Litsy!

Excerpt from Painted Clay Years ago the suburb of Packington had been a stretch of green, hilly land, covered with gum trees, overlooking Port Phillip Bay, and Melbourne. The advent of building speculators, trams and trains had changed all that, however, and now it was a popular, middle-class suburb, proud of its huge shops, State School, Public Gardens and Library. Through the main streets thundered the electric trams on their way to the city, and hundreds of people thronged the busy streets all hours of the day. Packington had rapidly become the busiest suburb outside Mel bourne. The sea had faded into the blue distance and now the only view to be had was that of the tall chim neys of the factories and the red roofs of the thou sands of little villas that had sprung up, mushroom fashion, all over the surrounding district. The curious visitor, looking casually as he passed by at one or two of the older houses would wonder why they were named so inappropriately, Bay View, and Sea View. He did not realise that he was looking at a link with the past. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.