She had expected a rippling stream, and, to her disappointment, saw only a broad strip of dry sand, along which Moongarr Bill was mooching, a spade in his hand.
'What are we going to do for water ?' she exclaimed.
'Dig for it, my ladyship,' answered Moongarr Bill.

'That's one of the upside-down things in 'Stralia.

Here's two of them--mighty queer, come to think of it--the rivers that run underground and the cherries that grow with their stones outside.' Lady Bridget observed that she was already acquainted with that oft-quoted botanical phenomenon.

In her rides around Leichardt's Town she had been shown and had tasted the disagreeable little orange berry which has a hard green knob at the end of it and is, for some ironical reason, called a cherry.

She also told Moongarr Bill that in England she had seen a dowser searching for hidden springs by means of a forked hazel twig carried in front of him which pointed downwards where there was water and asked why Australians didn't adopt a similar method.