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Updated: May 21, 2025
Thus, the view we get of the drafting-yard at Garoopna, with Sam Buckley in torn shirt, dust-covered, and wielding a deft pole on the noses of the terrified cattle, is not presented as a piece of station-life so much as a picturesque means of leading Alice Brentwood into an involuntary display of her affection for Sam when he is struck down before her eyes.
The tiny kitchen and stove were both scrupulously clean, and so were my three saucepans and kettle. This had been, of course, my maids' doing, but the fuel was a delicate little attention on Pepper's part. How he blushed and grinned with delight when I thanked him before all his mates! This was indeed station-life made easy!
Frer could get a man to help to stop the fight, when the two combatants were led off, in a very sulky state, to be locked up apart. Arrangements had been made for us to see as much of station-life as possible during our short visit.
They were on the race course now, and, excited by the turf, he gave her quite enough to do to hold him. "What fun station-life must be," thought she. "Always riding in a wild, strange country, birds, animals, plants, scenery, and ideas, all different and unhackneyed. Canada is well enough, but it mimics England too much, and is fifty years behind it."
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