"If we didn't forget all about bangtailing
that mob for her mattress."
We undoubtedly had, but thirty-three nights, or thereabouts, with the
warm, bare ground for a bed, had made me indifferent to mattresses, and
hearing that Dan became most hopeful of "getting her properly educated"
yet.
Cheon greeted us with his usual enthusiasm, and handed the Maluka a
letter containing a request for a small mob of bullocks within three
weeks.
"Nothing like keeping the ball rolling,", Dan said, also waxing
enthusiastic, while the South-folk remained convinced that life out-bush
is stagnation.
CHAPTER XIX
Dan and the Quiet Stockman went out to the north-west immediately, to
"clean up there" before getting the bullocks together; but the Maluka,
settling down to arrears of bookkeeping, with the Dandy at his right
hand, Cheon once more took the missus under his wing feeding her up and
scorning her gardening efforts.
"The idea of a white woman thinking she could grow water-melons," he
scoffed, when I planted seeds, having decided on a carpet of luxuriant
green to fill up the garden beds until the shrubs grew.
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