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Don't you know, Joan' and his voice got suddenly grave and deep-toned 'you ought to, for you were a bush girl and you've had men-kind out in the Back Blocks Don't you know that when a man has got to go on day after day, week after week, year after year, fighting devils of loneliness and worse with nothing to look at except miles and miles of stark staring gum trees and black, smelling GIDGEE* and dead-finish scrub and never the glimpse of a woman not counting black gins to remind him he once had a mother and might have a wife.
"There's ticklish work ahead. You watch me." And they settled down again to give all their attention to the work in hand. About five miles west of the town is a narrow but close belt of timber, mostly gnarled mulga and gidgee, with here and there a sprawling stunted creek gum. The cattle were making for this shelter. But already the tremendous pace was beginning to tell.
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