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The
lines
on
either
side
of
Mary
Carson
's
nose
got
deeper
,
her
eyes
bulged
slightly
.
"
Hoity-toity
!
"
She
did
not
come
again
,
but
Mrs.
Smith
,
her
housekeeper
,
came
often
,
and
repeated
Mary
Carson
's
advice
about
their
clothes
.
"
Look
,
"
she
said
,
"
there
's
a
sewing
machine
in
my
quarters
which
I
never
use
.
I
'll
have
a
couple
of
the
rouseabouts
carry
it
down
.
If
I
do
need
to
use
it
,
I
'll
come
down
here
.
"
Her
eyes
strayed
to
baby
Hal
,
rolling
on
the
floor
gleefully
.
"
I
like
to
hear
the
sound
of
children
,
Mrs.
Cleary
.
"
*
*
*
Once
every
six
weeks
the
mail
came
by
horse-drawn
dray
from
Gillanbone
;
this
was
the
only
contact
with
the
outside
world
.
Drogheda
possessed
a
Ford
truck
,
another
specially
constructed
Ford
truck
with
a
water
tank
on
its
tray
,
a
model-T
Ford
car
and
a
Rolls-Royce
limousine
,
but
no
one
ever
seemed
to
use
them
to
go
into
Gilly
save
Mary
Carson
infrequently
.
Forty
miles
was
as
far
as
the
moon
.
Bluey
Williams
had
the
mail
contract
for
the
district
and
took
six
weeks
to
cover
his
territory
.
His
flat-topped
dray
with
its
ten-foot
wheels
was
drawn
by
a
magnificent
team
of
twelve
draft
horses
,
and
was
loaded
with
all
the
things
the
outlying
stations
ordered
.
As
well
as
the
Royal
Mail
,
he
carried
groceries
,
gasoline
in
forty-four-gallon
drums
,
kerosene
in
square
five-gallon
cans
,
hay
,
bags
of
corn
,
calico
bags
of
sugar
and
flour
,
wooden
chests
of
tea
,
bags
of
potatoes
,
farm
machinery
,
mail-order
toys
and
clothes
from
Anthony
Hordern
's
in
Sydney
,
plus
anything
else
that
had
to
be
brought
in
from
Gilly
or
Outside
.
Moving
at
the
clipping
rate
of
twenty
miles
a
day
,
he
was
welcomed
wherever
he
stopped
,
plied
for
news
and
weather
far
away
,
handed
the
scribbled
scraps
of
paper
carefully
wrapped
around
money
for
goods
he
would
purchase
in
Gilly
,
handed
the
laboriously
written
letters
which
went
into
the
canvas
sack
marked
"
Royal
GVR
Mail
.
"
West
of
Gilly
there
were
only
two
stations
on
the
route
,
Drogheda
closer
in
,
Bugela
farther
out
;
beyond
Bugela
lay
the
territory
that
got
mail
only
once
every
six
months
.
Bluey
's
dray
swung
in
a
great
zigzagging
are
through
all
the
stations
southwest
,
west
and
northwest
,
then
returned
to
Gilly
before
setting
out
eastward
,
a
smaller
journey
because
Booroo
town
took
over
sixty
miles
east
.
Sometimes
he
brought
people
sitting
beside
him
on
his
unsheltered
leather
seat
,
visitors
or
hopefuls
looking
for
work
;
sometimes
he
took
people
away
,
visitors
or
discontented
stockmen
or
maids
or
rouseabouts
,
very
occasionally
a
governess
.
The
squatters
owned
cars
to
transport
themselves
,
but
those
who
worked
for
the
squatters
depended
upon
Bluey
for
transport
as
well
as
goods
and
letters
.
After
the
bolts
of
cloth
Fee
had
ordered
came
on
the
mail
,
she
sat
down
at
the
donated
sewing
machine
and
began
to
make
loose
dresses
in
light
cotton
for
herself
and
Meggie
,
light
trousers
and
overalls
for
the
men
,
smocks
for
Hal
,
curtains
for
the
windows
.
There
was
no
doubt
it
was
cooler
minus
layers
of
underwear
and
tightly
fitting
outerwear
.
Life
was
lonely
for
Meggie
,
only
Stuart
at
the
house
among
the
boys
.
