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Updated: May 21, 2025
Old mongrel, to kick up a fuss over a few paltry oranges! As if we don't all know what boys is; why, there'd be no chance of rarin' them without touchin' nothing, unless you carted them off to the back-blocks where there wasn't no one within reach. I told him what I thought of him. 'How dare you! says I. 'Bring witnesses of this, said I." Grandma Clay arose.
"Only about the biggest and the best in the blessed back-blocks that's all! Only about half the size of your blessed little old country cut out square! Oh, yes, it was his all right; bought it for a song after the bad seasons fifteen year ago, and sold it in the end for a quarter of a million, after making a fortune off of his clips alone. And what did I get out of it?" demanded Abel, furiously.
But such talk did not amount to much in this district, for the rocky ranges of the Tinnaburra country, its densely wooded gullies, and wild scrub-dotted flats, was almost entirely in the hands of a few big squatters, who had long since pre-empted the back-blocks in the hinterland of their stations for very many miles up country. Naturally, Finn and Jess knew nothing of these things.
"You kept this secret up your sleeve to play it for all it was worth in a country where it would be worth more than it was in the back-blocks? That's all I mean." "Well, if I did, that's my own affair." "Oh, certainly. Only you came here at your own proposal in order, I suppose, to sell this secret to me?" "Yes, to sell it." "Then, you see, it is more or less my affair as well."
'You promise to pay me a visit when the Governor makes his trip north when he carries out his notion of establishing military patrols and a Maxim gun or two to put down Trades-Unionism and native outrages in the Back-Blocks? Lady Bridget looked at him thoughtfully. He had pulled out his tobacco pouch and was filling a well-worn pipe. 'You won't mind my pipe, will you as you're a smoker yourself.
Education is compulsory, the Government providing an elaborate system to see that every child gets at least the rudiments of education; even in the far back-blocks, where settlement is much scattered, it is necessary and possible to go to school. The State will carry the children to school on its railways free.
'Well, I told Sir Luke that I didn't think he need bother himself just yet awhile over that northern tour of inspection he's talking about. 'He wants to make a kind of royal progress, Joan, through the Back-Blocks, said Lady Biddy. 'It'll mean a bit of stiff riding, said McKeith, 'but I've offered to show him round the Upper Leura anyway, and to find him a quiet hack.
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