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The pioneers of these small settlers were old Morgan Donohoe and his wife, who had built the hotel at Kiley's Crossing; and, on their reports, all their friends and relatives, as they came out of the "ould country," worked their way to Kuryong, and built little bits of slab and bark homesteads in among the mountains. The rougher the country, the better they liked it.
Anything that would spoil by getting wet, or that would float out of the coach, was lifted up and packed on the roof. The passengers stood up on the seats. Then Pat Donohoe put the whip on his leaders, and calling to his two wheelers, old-seasoned veterans, he put them at it.
Hugh sat in an armchair by the window, smoking and dreaming. Poss's voice cut knife-like through a cloud of tobacco smoke. He spoke as one on the defensive. "Well, I believe there's something in it, anyhow. Briney Donohoe told me " Charlie Cordon's cold drawl interrupted the youth. "It's all rot," he said. "Briney Donohoe told you what does he know about it?
"My name's Hugh Gordon, and I want to find out something about your marriage with Peggy Donohoe." "Well, if that's what you come for, Mister," said the veteran, pulling a firestick out of the fire, and slowly lighting his pipe, "if that's what you come for" puff, puff, puff "you've come on a wild goose chase. I never knew no Peggy Donohoe in my life.
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