And then these travellers, too, passed out of our camp to become, with
the man from Beyanst, just pleasant memories.
"She'll find mere men unsatisfying after this," the Maluka said in
farewell, and a mere man coming in from the north-west before sundown,
greeted the Maluka with: "Thought you married a towny," as he pointed
with eloquent forefinger at our supper circle.
"So I did," the Maluka laughed back. "But before I had time to dazzle
the bushies with her the Wizard of the Never-Never charmed her into a
bush-whacker."
"Into a CHARMING bush-whacker, he MEANS!" the traveller said, bowing
before his introduction; and I wondered how the Maluka could have thought
for one moment that "mere men" would prove unsatisfying. But as I
acknowledged the gallantry Dan looked on dubiously, not sure whether
pretty speeches were a help or a hindrance to education.
But no one could call the Fizzer a "mere man"; and half-past eleven four
weeks being already past, the Fizzer was even then at the homestead, and
before another midday, came shouting into our camp, and, settling down to
dinner, kept the conversational ball rolling.
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