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Updated: May 13, 2025
The water was slightly brackish, and, strange enough, it became more so the higher we went up the creek. Whilst we were at our last camp, Charley met a long file of native women returning, with their dillies and baskets full of shell fish, to the range; near which, very probably, fresh water existed.
Formerly, long stages, with a basket to hold six behind, and dillies which plied at the Elephant and Castle, were the usual land conveyances now they have made place for railroads and omnibuses. Formerly, the wherry conveyed the mariner and his wife, with his sea-chest, down to the landing-place now steamboats pour out their hundreds at a trip.
"The base is comfortable, and we only work a two-hour shift out of each ten. We've had a plague of silly dillies recently. They got into one man's suit while we were working, but mostly they're just a nuisance." Rip had heard of the creatures. They were like Earth armadillos, except that they were silicon animals and not carbon like those of Earth.
He can hardly sit still on his pro-consular throne; he smiles in dockets and demi-officials; he walks up and down his alabaster halls, and out into his gardens of asphodel, and snuffs the air. It is redolent with some rare effluvium; pomatum-laden winds breathe across the daffadown dillies from the warm chambers of the south.
But nothing else provided the shielding against radiation and meteors half so well and it was in great demand for spaceship skins. "Things aren’t so bad," Go told Rip. "The base is comfortable and we only work a two hour shift out of each ten. We’ve had a plague of silly dillies recently. They got into one man’s suit while we were working, but mostly they’re just a nuisance."
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