As for the repast, for a long time, as a rule, the menu was salt junk and pumpkin.

We've improved on that a little since the Chinese cook and the Chinese gardener came back from the goldfields--there was another rush at Fig Tree Mount that fizzled out.

To-night, you will have kangaroo-tail soup, and kid EN CASSEROLE.

If you make believe very hard you might possible imagine it young venison....

Here, Kuppi!' The Malay boy brought in the tea-tray and she signed to him to put it on the table between the fire and the window.
'Tea,' she asked, 'or would you rather have whiskey and water?
I can't offer you soda water because, till the drays come, we have nothing to run the seltzogene with....