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Updated: June 22, 2025
It was the spring, and just the time of year when the dwarfs held their fête, so one day the brownie asked Jégu if he might bring his friends to have supper in the great barn, and whether he would allow them to dance there.
Andrew's, for Fergus, and Gillian can go there too, or join classes in whatever she pleases. 'My Brownie! Have you really room for all those? 'Oh yes! The three girls in the spare room and dressing-room, and Fergus in the little room over the porch. I will write to Fanny; I gave her a hint. 'And I have no doubt that Primrose will be a delight to her aunt Alethea, poor little dear!
"Left my situation to better myself isn't that the right way to put it? And we've got the jolliest home in Australia thanks to all of you. Do have some more cake, Mr. Linton; I'd love to say I made it myself, but Brownie did still, all the same, it's mine." "Don't you worry," he told her. "I'm coming here plenty of times for cake of your own baking." "That's what I want." She beamed at him.
Instead, though, fighting his fears, he turned on his back for a moment with his round face to the blue breeze-swept sky, and took long, grateful breaths of the sun-sweet air. Above him a grey gull swept in a wide circle, uttering harsh, discordant cries. Then, his panic gone, "Brownie" turned over again and struggled on with renewed strength and courage.
During her stay of a week, she had attempted to alter every existing arrangement at Billabong and when she finally departed, in a state of profound disapproval, the relief of the homestead was immense. Brownie was unable to feel any delight at the idea of entertaining her son. Norah and her father made the utmost of their remaining time together.
"Less likly nor ony man aboot the place," bawled Donal, half angry with his mistress for calling his friend dummie. "Gibbie kens better what he's aboot nor ony twa 'at thinks him a fule 'cause he canna lat oot sic stuff an' nonsense as they canna haud in." Jean went back to the kitchen, only half reassured concerning her brownie, and far from contented with his absence.
But after that piece of civility he would be sure, they thought, to take her under his protection. And sometimes, when the little Shetlander was restless and pricked up her ears, looking preternaturally wise under those shaggy brows of hers, the children used to say to one another, "Perhaps she sees the Brownie."
Be thou a brownie, set, at dead of night, to thy task by the blazing ingle, or in the solitary barn, where the repercussions of thy iron flail half affright thyself, as thou performest the work of twenty of the sons of men, ere the cock-crowing summon thee to thy ample cog of substantial brose.
Instantly, as if anticipating the inventions of the future, fifty steam whistles seemed to burst into full cry. The other pigs, in sympathetic alarm, joined in chorus, and thus, yelling inconceivably, they plunged into a thicket and disappeared. Bladud almost fell to the ground with laughing, while Brownie, in no laughing mood, came humbly forward to claim and receive consolation.
He had happened to glance around while he was talking; and to his surprise there was Grandaddy floating in the water close behind him. "He certainly is," everybody agreed. "But we hope he's mistaken about the great wind." When Tuesday came which was the very next day Brownie Beaver crept into his tunnel in the bank at sunrise. And he never came outside again until the sun had set.
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