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Then he turned his attention to the three house-boys, cornering Ornfiri in the kitchen and rushing him against the hot stove, stripping the lava-lava from Lalaperu when that excited youth climbed a veranda-post, and following Viaburi on top the billiard-table, where the battle raged until Joan managed a rescue. It was Satan's inexhaustible energy and good spirits that most impressed them.
Next day Bill turned up with the missing horse and saw Jim standing against a veranda-post of the Carriers' Arms, with his hat down over his eyes, and thoughtfully spitting in the dust. Bill rode over to him. "'Ullo, Jim." "'Ullo, Bill. I see you got him." "Yes, I got him." Pause. "Where'd yer find him?" "'Bout ten mile back. Near Ford's Bridge. He was just feedin' along." Pause.
"Yes, perhaps I had better," she said with unnatural deliberation, and stepped out on the veranda to stand close by his side. Together, one on each side of the screen, they peeped between the edge of the canvas and the veranda-post entwined with creepers.
The conversation between Stobart and the man behind the bar was all about the needs and the ways of stock. The drover hitched his horse to a veranda-post and walked into the dark drinking-room stiffly, for he had been in the saddle since three o'clock that morning, and had done some hard riding after restless cattle. "Good-day," said Stobart. "Good-day," replied Tom Gibbon. "Travelling?" "Yes.
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