He can take the Captain in by another track, and there'll be only Jim and I and the old dog, the only three persons that'll go in the near way.' 'And when shall we see--see--any of you again ?' 'Somewheres about a month, I suppose, if we've luck.

There's a deal belongs to that.

You'd better go and see what there is for us to eat.
We've a long way and a rough way to go before we get to the Hollow.' Aileen was off at this, and then she set to work and laid a clean tablecloth in the sitting-room and set us down our meal--breakfast, or whatever it was.

It wasn't so bad--corned beef, first-rate potatoes, fresh damper, milk, butter, eggs.

Tea, of course, it's the great drink in the bush; and although some doctors say it's no good, what would bushmen do without it?
We had no intention of stopping the whole night, though we were tempted to do so--to have one night's rest in the old place where we used to sleep so sound before.