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look, it’s coming on to rain now, you goose. This bushland is full of rain——-it teems with it."

Then giving whip to the horse and echoing at the top of his voice: "Cattle king and millionaire, my dear," the Governor drove over the tufty grasses and round through the undergrowth and clumps of myall like a rising cyclone — at least, he thought he was going like a cyclone, But that’s fifty years ago now!