shade-houses

Updated: July 18, 2025

One small tent "fly" for a dressing-room for the missus, and the remainder of the accommodation open-air and shady bough gundies; tiny, fresh, cool, green shade-houses here, there, and everywhere for the blacks; one set apart from the camp for a larder, and an immense one all green waving boughs for the missus to rest in during the heat of the day. "The Cottage," Dan called it.

Jeannie Gunn - We of the Never-Never