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So that the Brownbies were in truth much nearer neighbors to the German than was Heathcote and his family. But between the German and the Brownbies there raged an internecine feud.
Still there were men, old stagers, who had know Moreton Bay before it was a colony in the old days when convicts were common who almost regarded the Brownbies as a part of the common order of things, and who were indisposed to persecute them. Men must live; and what were a few sheep?
I'm not so near hanging as some folks at Boolabong." We may imagine, therefore, that the night was not spent pleasantly among the Brownbies after these adventures. There were, of course, very much cursing and swearing, and very many threats, before the party from Boolabong did retreat.
The Brownbies would be found, whenever a little money came among them, at the public billiard-rooms and race-courses within one hundred and fifty miles of Boolabong. At such places Harry Heathcote was never seen. It would have been as easy to seduce the Bishop of Brisbane into a bet as Harry Heathcote. He had never even drank a nobbler with one of the Brownbies.
Beyond the fence was a strip of land, in some parts over a mile broad, in others not much over a quarter of a mile, which he claimed as belonging to Gangoil, but over which the Brownbies had driven their cattle since the fence had been made, under the pretense that the fence marked the boundary of two runs.
When we've got through the heats, we'll put a mile or two of better fencing along here. You know Boscobel?" "In course I know Bos." "What sort of a fellow is he?" Then Harry told his German dependent exactly what had taken place between him and the other man. "He's in and in wid all them young Brownbies," said Karl.
I shouldn't wonder if they became regular friends." "That would be nice! After all, though you may be so happy at home, it is better to have something like a neighbor. Don't you think so?" "It depends on who the neighbors are. I don't care much for the Brownbies." "They are quite different, Mary." "I like the Medlicots very much." "I consider he's quite a gentleman," said Kate.
"Yes, you went away and left us in the Botanical Gardens. I remember. But, you see, there are no Botanical Gardens here; and the poor man couldn't walk about if there were." "I wonder what Harry would say if it were to be so." "Of course he'd be glad for your sake." "But he does so despise free-selectors! And then he used to think that Mr. Medlicot was quite as bad as the Brownbies.
"When the row was over, we wouldn't let him in. We didn't want him about here." "I dare say not," said the sergeant. "Now let me go and see the spot where the fight was." So the two policemen, with the two young Brownbies, rode away, leaving Boscobel with the old man. "He knows every thing about it," said old Brownbie. "If he do," said Boscobel, "it ain't no odds."
"That wretched Chinese hasn't gone and left us for nothing, miss, and what would we three lone women do here if all them Brownbies came down upon us? Why don't master come back? He ought to come back; oughtn't he, ma'am? He never do think what lone women are." Mrs. Heathcote took her husband's part very strongly, and gave Mrs. Growler as hard a scolding as she knew how to pronounce.
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