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"
Oh
,
Mum
!
What
could
possibly
have
made
you
like
this
?
Why
like
this
,
so
unwilling
to
give
?
"
Fee
sighed
.
"
Events
which
took
place
years
before
you
were
even
born
,
"
she
said
pathetically
.
But
Meggie
shook
her
fist
vehemently
.
"
Oh
,
no
,
you
do
n't
!
After
what
you
've
just
told
me
?
You
're
not
going
to
get
away
with
flogging
that
dead
horse
to
me
ever
again
!
Rubbish
,
rubbish
,
rubbish
!
Do
you
hear
me
,
Mum
?
You
've
wallowed
in
it
for
most
of
your
life
,
like
a
fly
in
syrup
!
"
Fee
smiled
broadly
,
genuinely
pleased
.
"
I
used
to
think
having
a
daughter
was
n't
nearly
as
important
as
having
sons
,
but
I
was
wrong
.
I
enjoy
you
,
Meggie
,
in
a
way
I
can
never
enjoy
my
sons
.
A
daughter
's
an
equal
.
Sons
are
n't
,
you
know
.
They
're
just
defenseless
dolls
we
set
up
to
knock
down
at
our
leisure
.
"
Meggie
stared
.
"
You
're
remorseless
.
Tell
me
,
then
,
where
do
we
go
wrong
?
"
"
In
being
born
,
"
said
Fee
.
*
*
*
Men
were
returning
home
in
thousands
upon
thousands
,
shedding
their
khaki
uniforms
and
slouch
hats
for
civvies
.
And
the
Labor
government
,
still
in
office
,
took
a
long
,
hard
look
at
the
great
properties
of
the
western
plains
,
some
of
the
bigger
stations
closer
in
.
It
was
n't
right
that
so
much
land
should
belong
to
one
family
,
when
men
who
had
done
their
bit
for
Australia
needed
room
for
their
belongings
and
the
country
needed
more
intensive
working
of
its
land
.
Six
million
people
to
fill
an
area
as
big
as
the
United
States
of
America
,
but
a
mere
handful
of
those
six
million
holding
vast
tracts
in
a
handful
of
names
.
The
biggest
properties
would
have
to
be
subdivided
,
yield
up
some
of
their
acreages
to
the
war
veterans
.
Bugela
went
from
150,000
acres
to
70,000
;
two
returned
soldiers
got
40,000
acres
each
off
Martin
King
.
Rudna
Hunish
had
120,000
acres
,
therefore
Ross
MacQueen
lost
60,000
acres
and
two
more
returned
soldiers
were
endowed
.
So
it
went
.
Of
course
the
government
compensated
the
graziers
,
though
at
lower
figures
than
the
open
market
would
have
given
.
And
it
hurt
.
Oh
,
it
hurt
.
