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He had promised to be home in time for my birthday spread, and I was sure he had a present for me. What would it be? something nice. He would be nearly sure to bring someone home with him from Cummabella, and we would have games and fun to no end. I was just seventeen, only seventeen, and had a long, long life before me wherein to enjoy myself. Oh, it was good to be alive!
Monday arrived last day of November and seventeenth anniversary of my birth and I celebrated it in a manner which I capitally enjoyed. It was the time of the annual muster at Cummabella a cattle-station seventeen miles eastward from Caddagat and all our men were there assisting.
On reaching the house we found other company had arrived in the persons of young Mr Goodjay from Cummabella, his sister, her governess, and a couple of jackeroos. They were seated on the veranda, and uncle Jay-Jay, attired in his shirt-sleeves, was appearing through the dining-room door with half a dozen bottles of home-made ginger ale in his arms.
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