dad-de-e-e

Updated: May 12, 2025

Then another call came through the stillness of the scrub, faint, but beyond mistake, 'Dad-de-e-e!. There was n't a trace of terror in the tone; it was just the voice of a worn-out child, deliberately calling with all her might. Seemed to be something less than half-a-mile away, but I could n't fix on the direction; and the scrub was very thick. "I hurried down to the bell.

Joseph Furphy - Such Is Life