Twain travels from Adelaide to Horsham, in Victoria. He finds a cottonwood tree, of fine detail, like a Kodak, and a peppertree, like an impressionist painting. Outside of town is an agricultural college, the Longerenong Agricultural College, where they grow fruit trees in an arid environment. They had forty pupils, ten were farmers hoping to expand their skills, and the rest city boys getting a trade. The curricula included sheep shearing. Twain speaks of a talking bird, the name of which he can't recall but is probably a monk parakeet, then there is the singing magpie, that could be an ideal pet - never coming when called and always there when not wanted. Twain travels to the gold country of Stawell and visits the vinyards of Great Western. He stops for a look at the Three Sisters, an inselberg of granite but he speculates they were rafted in by some ancient ice flow.