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Updated: May 22, 2025
Next morning I got up early and fried the bacon and made the tea, and took Mary's breakfast in to her like I used to do, sometimes, when we were first married. She didn't say anything just pulled my head down and kissed me. When I was ready to start Mary said, 'You'd better take the spring-cart in behind the dray and get the tyres cut and set.
The time Mary and I shifted out into the Bush from Gulgong to 'settle on the land' at Lahey's Creek. I'd sold the two tip-drays that I used for tank-sinking and dam-making, and I took the traps out in the waggon on top of a small load of rations and horse-feed that I was taking to a sheep-station out that way. Mary drove out in the spring-cart.
Leaving the cook to collect the things and put them in the spring-cart, we continued on our way, lazily lolling on our horses and chewing gum-leaves as we went. When the last of the sheep got off the Caddagat run it was nearing two o'clock. Mr Ledwood and I shook hands at parting, each expressing a wish that we might meet again some day. I turned and rode homewards.
Byles looked up to see three armed keepers commanding their helpless party, and one of them purple with rage. "I hope we don't intrude; maybe we could give you a hand in catchin' the birds, and if a spring-cart would be of ony use ... confound your cheek! "Gathering flowers, are ye, and gave the pheasants a biscuit, did ye, and the boys thought they would like to stroke one, would they?
By the time my supper-service was re-packed, and I was stretched in Aboriginal contentment beside the fire, I had noticed, by the uncertain light, an eight-by-six tent, which seemed to contain two camp-bedsteads, on one of which lay a sleeping man. Some yards behind the tent stood a spring-cart.
She jumped at the chance of peace and quiet in the bush, and closed upon his offer there and then. Two days later, Taylor, peaceful and contented, was returning to the selection, driving the spring-cart which had roused his fancy, and in which there also travelled his wife the red-cheeked girl and her few belongings.
Faith in something being an absolute and vital essential to the welfare of every woman, Joan Tregenza was no exception to the rule. It fell out on the night of her uncle's weekly visit to market, that Joan had just returned from the garden, when she heard the clatter of the spring-cart. It drew up at the kitchen door and Mary alighted with Mr. Chirgwin.
And Smith's spring-cart horse, that used to be driven by every day, stopped in the middle of the lane and stared at it; and, when Smith stood up and belted him with the double of the reins, he bolted and upset the cart over a stump. It was n't a very white tent. It was made of bags and green bushes, and Dad and Dave and Paddy Maloney were two days putting it up.
The result was one that, if only I had considered the thing carefully, I might have foreseen: as the hand of the Watch touched the mark, the spring-cart which had driven off, and was by this time half-way down the street, was back again at the door, and in the act of starting, while oh woe for the golden dream of world-wide benevolence that had dazzled my dreaming fancy! the wounded youth was once more reclining on the heap of pillows, his pale face set rigidly in the hard lines that told of pain resolutely endured.
His father and Martin were walking, dressed in their second best suits, and beside them rambled along a grizzel horse and brightly painted spring-cart. 'All right, Mr. Cannister; here's the lost man! exclaimed young Smith, entering at once upon the old style of greeting. 'Father, here I am. 'All right, my sonny; and glad I be for't! returned John Smith, overjoyed to see the young man.
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