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Updated: May 22, 2025
"We can't tell you," Prudence said, with a funny little smile, "you'll have to fix it yourself in the end." "Cooo-eeeee!" sounded from the cottage. "Cherry jam for tea to-day, fresh from the preserving-pan," Aunt Mary was saying. "That will be a treat for you, Mollie, my dear." The Treasure-hunters or The Duke's Nose "Cherry jam is certainly very runny," said Aunt Mary at tea-time.
"I'm going to signal to Aunt Mary that we are nearly home," she warned her companion, "so that she'll have tea ready," and, putting her hands to her mouth, she gave a long, shrill "cooo-eeeee!" "Now," she said to herself, "that should remind her of Australia and Desmond O'Rourke and green diamonds." But Mollie's brilliant idea had not exactly the effect she expected.
They had scrambled on ahead while she was tying up her periwinkles, and were now too far away to hear anything but a shout. She put her two hands up to her mouth and gave the long shrill "Cooo-eeeee!" of the Australian-born child, which caused five heads to be turned in her direction instantaneously. Prudence started running back, fearing that her sister had fallen and hurt herself.
She thought of the dull street at home in North Kensington, with brick houses all crowded up together and dingy little back-yards, and she wished that her family could come and live in this wide and sunny country. As she stood, a cry came across the valley. "Coo-eee! Cooo-eeeee!" "There's Bridget calling for tea," said Prudence.
When the sound of that shrill cooo-eeeee penetrated to the morning- room, Aunt Mary did indeed think of Australia, but she also thought, naturally enough, that the children were in difficulties and needed her help. So, a few minutes later, Mollie and Major Campbell saw a slim figure, clad in a short skirt and jumper, running down the hill as fast as a pair of active feet could carry it.
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