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Rh no one seemed to know when to sit again, they remained standing.

They were standing when a loud whip-crack sounded close to the house, and a lusty voice roared:

"Wah Tumbler! Wah Tumbler! Gee back, Brandy! Gee bach, you!!!!!! "



People smiled. Then a team of bullocks appeared on the road. The driver drawled, "Wa-a-a-y!" and the team stopped right in front of the door. The driver lifted something weighty from the dray and straggled to the verandah with it and dropped it down. It was a man. The