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Updated: June 28, 2025
Werrina not a bad name, Nick Werrina. Aboriginal origin, I imagine. And all that for the mere taking; open to the poorest even to us. You liked the Ariadne, Nick. What would you think of a ship of our own? Assuredly, we were the strangest pair of emigrants.... Naturally, my father's suggestion, thrown out as it were in jest, whimsically, fired my fancy instantly. 'How glorious! I said.
The sun had disappeared before I left my father's side, and the track to Werrina was fifteen miles long. A strange drive, and a queer little numbed driver, creaking along through the ghostly bush, exactly as a somnambulist might, the most of his faculties in abeyance. Three words kept shaping themselves in my mind, I know, and then fading out again, like shadows. They never were spoken.
It was Ted who bought Jerry for us for the modest price of £3, 15s.; and I make no doubt that serviceable beast would have cost my father £7 if he had had 'the haggling of it. Pack-saddle and tent, with a number of other oddments, had come with us from across the Queensland border; first, by rail, and thence by numerous devious coach routes to Werrina.
He was singularly unmethodical and haphazard, even as his kind go in the remoter parts of Australia. He made our acquaintance very casually by asking my father for a match, almost before we had descended from the coach outside the Royal Hotel, Werrina.
As I was being driven to the Orphanage in Father O'Malley's sulky, behind his famous trotting mare Jinny, I hazarded upon a note of interrogation the remark that my father would be buried. 'Surely, surely, my boy; I expect he will be buried at Werrina to-morrow. This was on the morning after my delivery of the letters in Werrina. I had spent the night in Father O'Malley's house.
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