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Do you know, Miss Carolan, that that big man who brought you here Dick Scott rough and uneducated as he is, is a gentleman. On our way down from Chinkie's Flat we had to swim our horses across the Ross River, which was in flood. When we reached the other side I was, of course, wet through, and my hair had come down, and I looked like a half-drowned cat, I suppose.
"Oh, a year or two more perhaps three or four; and then, when Chinkie's Flat is worked out, I too, will go south to the old home." Mallard sighed, and then, taking a cigar, lit it, and the two men smoked together in silence for a few minutes. "Mallard!" "Yes, old man." "This continual newspaper grind is pretty tough, isn't it?" "Yes, it is.
"Are you Miss Caroline, ma'am?" said her guide to her respectfully, as he tried to shorten his lengthy strides. "Yes, my name is Carolan," she replied, trying to hide a smile. "Thought so, ma'am. I heerd the boss a-tellin' Miss Grainger as you would be a-comin' to Chinkie's on yer way up ter Minervy Downs. Here's the 'Queen's, miss, an' there's the boss and his sister and Mr.
My husband of to-day is not the Dinky-Dunk I once knew and loved and laughed with. To go back to dogs, it reminds me of Chinkie's St. Bernard, "Father Tom," whom Chinkie petted and trained and loved almost to adoration.
Then Grainger and his visitor began to talk, at first on general matters such as the condition of the country between the Cloncurry and the Burdekin, and then about Chinkie's Flat, its past glories and its present condition.
It was at the close of a long day's ride over grassless, sun-smitten country, that he came in sight of Chinkie's Flat, and the welcome green of the she-oaks fringing Connolly's Creek and soughing to the wind. The quietness and verdancy of the creek pleased him, and he resolved to have a long, long spell, and try and get rid of the fever which had again attacked him and made his life a misery.
It stood on the red, rocky, and treeless side of Melton Hill, overlooked the waters of Cleveland Bay, and faced the rather picturesque-looking island from whence it derived its name. About ten months after the resurrection of the "Ever Victorious" and the concomitant reawakening to life of Chinkie's Flat, three ladies arrived by steamer from Sydney to take possession of the villa then untenanted.
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