I must go straight back, or Poss'll make a row.

We've a lot of work to do." "I think Poss is here," said Mrs.Gordon.
"Poss is here, is he?
Well, if that don't beat everything! And when we started to muster that paddock I went to the top, and he went the other way, and he reckoned to be at it all day.

He's a nice fellow, he is! I wonder what the old man'll say ?" "Oh, I expect he won't mind very much.

This is Mr.George Hunter, Miss Grant." Binjie extended much the same greeting as Poss had done; and by dinner-time that evening--or, as it is always called in the bush, tea-time--they had all made each other's acquaintance, and both the youths were worshipping at the new shrine.
At tea the talk flowed freely, and the two bush boys, shy at first, began to expand as Mary Grant talked to them.

Put a pretty girl and a young and impressionable bushman together, and in the twinkling of an eye you have a Sir Galahad ready to do anything for the service of his lady.
Lightheartedly they consented to stay the night, in the hope of seeing Hugh, to deliver their message about the weaners--they seemed to have satisfactorily arranged the question of mustering.