We of the Never-NeverWith illustrations from photographs . hing else could, that it was11 that other woman that had not been wanted. 59 WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER Unconventional, of course ; but when a welcome isconventional out-bush, it is unworthy of the nameof welcome. The Maluka knew this well ; but before he couldspeak, Mac had seized a little half-grown dog—themost persistent of all the leaping dogs—by hertightly curled-up tail, and, setting her down at myfeet, said : And this is Tiddleums, adding, withanother flourishing bow, A present from a BritherScot, while Tiddleums in no way resented t
We of the Never-NeverWith illustrations from photographs . hing else could, that it was11 that other woman that had not been wanted. 59 WE OF THE NEVER-NEVER Unconventional, of course ; but when a welcome isconventional out-bush, it is unworthy of the nameof welcome. The Maluka knew this well ; but before he couldspeak, Mac had seized a little half-grown dog—themost persistent of all the leaping dogs—by hertightly curled-up tail, and, setting her down at myfeet, said : And this is Tiddleums, adding, withanother flourishing bow, A present from a BritherScot, while Tiddleums in no way resented thedignity. Having a tail that curled tightly over herback like a cup handle, she expected to be lifted upby it. Then one after the other Mac presented the stationdogs : Quart-Pot, Drover, Tuppence, Misery, Buller,and a dozen others ; and as I bowed gravely to eachin turn Dan chuckled in appreciation : Shelldo ! Told you she was the dead finish. Then the introductions over, the Maluka said : And now I suppose she may consider herselfjust One of Us. 60. CHAPTER VI THE homestead, standing half-way up the slopethat- rose from the billabong, had, after all,little of that down-at-heels, anythingll-do appearance that Mac had so scathingly de-scribed. No one could call it a commodious stationhome, and it was even patched up and shabby ;but, for all that, neat and cared for. An orderlylittle array of one-roomed buildings, mostly built ofsawn slabs, and ranged round a broad oblong spacewith a precision that suggested the idea of a sectionof a street cut out from some neat compact littlevillage. The cooks quarters, kitchens, mens quarters,store, meat-house, and waggon-house, facing eachother on either side of this oblong space, formeda short avenue—the main thoroughfare of thehomestead—the centre of which was occupied byan immense wood-heap, the favourite gossipingplace of some of the old black fellows, while acrossthe western end of it, and looking down it, but alittle aloof from
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